CIW Professional Certification is a vendor neutral and mid-level certification. It validates the knowledge and advanced skills of Internet professionals. It is a very important certification, as it is one of the routes to pursue more advanced level CIW certifications. Therefore, achieving this certification provides you twin benefits. Firstly, you become a CIW Professional, and then you are eligible for other advanced level CIW certifications.
After benefiting from this certification, you become qualified for certain job roles, such as Web site designer, server administrator, application developer and database administrator. You may be well aware of the fact that the Internet and Web applications are developing at a very rapid speed. So, there is every opportunity of getting a lucrative job in this field. Designing and application development is the basic requirement for Web development. Your creativity and innovative thinking will also definitely add value to it.
Exams required
To achieve the CIW Professional certificationyou are required to pass the 1D0-510 CIW foundation exam and any of the following eight exams:
- 1D0-420 or 1D0-520 CIW Site Designer
- 1D0-425 or 1D0-525 CIW E-commerce Designer
- 1D0-450 CIW Server Administrator
- 1D0-460 CIW Internetworking Professional
- 1D0-470 CIW Security Professional
- 1D0-430 CIW Application Developer
- 1D0-441 CIW Database Specialist
- 1D0-442 CIW Enterprise Specialist