Anyone Dell certified? Is it worth it? Can I get he cert with little hardware experience? Got offered to get the cert paid for by my employer.

@FrodoSwaggins What do you mean a negative? I'm genuinely interested.

@Jifuna Certifications are sometimes seem as a filler for the real experience that is lacking.

Okay.. I'm a dev, so might not fully grasp the value of something like this from an IT/hardware perspective, but why would a certification for a brand make any sense? Surely you should be studying general, transferable concepts surrounding the product a specific brand produces rather than the specifics of a Dell PC or setup? This makes no sense to me? So you have HP pcs which work the exact same way, but you're only learning how to work with Dell PCs? I'm confused?

@ALivingMemory I think the idea is that if you work in a place where they only use XYZ computers you can be the point of contact. I happen to work where we only use Dell and MS Surface.

I do understand the value of perhaps a Microsoft certification I guess, but they have propriatery technologies, like .Net or C#. So they are only Microsoft things. But a Dell certification, they don't make anything that other companies don't also make? It's just packaged and branded. This is honestly perplexing me haha!

@ALivingMemory right I totally understand and am perplexed as well, however as I said in my current job there’s no use learning HP or something since we just don’t use it. I’d much rather do MS trainings lol

@Tawzer yea, I dunno, I think if I'm thinking it, other hirers might do too. I think you'd be better off getting certifications that cover PC hardware and concepts behind that as a whole (whether it's a PC hardware, networking or infrastructure course), but that's just how I see it

@ALivingMemory yeah I was just trying to determine whether it’s useful. I don’t have any interest in hardware but it’s a free cert...

@Tawzer oh well, if it's free and it isn't taking up time you could be doing something else then why the hell not haha. Free always changes things 😉

@ALivingMemory Yeah I mean my main question is like... I’ve never done anything with hardware so I’m not certain what prior knowledge I’d need but I think that’s a question for google lol