🔥 Performance Testing Certifications

Oct. 31, 2020

This repository contains information about the performance testing and monitoring certifications.

I will try to keep this information up to date. But it is your responsibility to check the relevant official links before you register for the certification.

If you see a certification is no longer updated or retired, please submit a PR to improve this repo. Thank you!

The purpose of this repo is to give an idea about the performance testing certifications, not to impose.

Learning multiple tools and getting certified will help you understand why one tool is not suited for some cases than the other. Earning certification doesn’t mean that you know everything, please remember learning is an endless journey, never stop.

Happy Journey!

📘 List of Certifications

• Micro Focus
  • LoadRunner
  • Silk Performer
• Apache JMeter
• Neotys NeoLoad
• Gatling
• Dynatrace
• New Relic
• AppDynamics
• ISTQB
• Others
• Retired

🎯 Micro Focus Certifications

LoadRunner

• Cert Name: LoadRunner Professional 2020 Certified Professional Exam previously known as LoadRunner v12.5 Certified Professional
• Price: 200 USD
• Registration: https://microfocus.viewcentral.com/events/uploads/microfocus/contact.html
• Validity: Lifetime
• Complexity: Tough
• Free Retake: No
• Number of questions: 50
• Exam time: 2 hours
• Passing score: 70%
• Each question has a time duration of 3 minutes to be attempted by the student, failure to mark a response within the stipulated time will move the student to the next question on the block.

Silk Performer

• Cert Name: Silk Performer Certified Professional
• Price: 200 USD
• Registration: https://marketplace.microfocus.com/education/content/slk200-silk-performer-certified-professional-exam
• Validity: Lifetime
• Complexity: Moderate
• Free Retake: No
• Number of questions: 32
• Exam time: 2 hours
• Passing score: 70%
• Each question has a time duration of 2 minutes to be attempted by the student, failure to mark a response within the stipulated time will move the student to the next question on the block.

References:

• How I successfully cleared MicroFocus LoadRunner certification?
• https://marketplace.microfocus.com/education/content/loadrunner-certified-professional-exam

🎯 Apache JMeter

There is no official certification from Apache Foundation. But I recommend Blazemeter certification.

Blazemeter

• Cert Name: Apache JMeter Pro
• Price: Free
• Registration: https://university.blazemeter.com/
• Validity: Lifetime
• Complexity: Moderate
• Free Retake: Yes (3 attempts max)
• Number of questions: 20
• Passing score: 90%
• Exam time: 2 hours

VSkills

• Cert Name: Certified JMeter Tester
• Price: 3,499 INR
• Registration: https://www.vskills.in/certification/testing/jmeter-tester-certification
• Validity: Lifetime
• Complexity: Moderate
• Free Retake: No
• Number of questions: 50
• Passing score: 50%
• Exam time: 1 hour

Vskills is a certification programme run by ICSIL (Intelligent Communication Systems India Limited) which is a Government of India PSU, and a Joint Venture of TCIL (Govt of India PSU) and DSIIDC (A Govt of NCT Delhi PSU).

🎯 Neotys NeoLoad

Neotys Certified Professional for NeoLoad

• Cert Name: Neotys Certified Professional for NeoLoad
• Price: Free
• Registration: https://www.neotys.com/professional-services/neotys-certification-program
• Validity: Lifetime
• Complexity: Tough
• Free Retake: Yes (3 attempts max)
• Number of questions: 50
• Passing score: 70%

Reference

• How to get certified in Neotys NeoLoad?

Neotys Certified Expert for NeoLoad

• Cert Name: Neotys Certified Expert for NeoLoad
• Price: Free
• Registration: https://www.neotys.com/professional-services/neotys-certification-program
• Validity: Lifetime
• Complexity: Tough
• Free Retake: NA
• Exam time: 1 day
  • Morning > Practical Exam : 3 hours
  • After noon > Theory : 2 hours

🎯 Gatling

Gatling Certification

• Cert Name: Gatling Certification
• Price: Free
• Registration: https://academy.gatling.io/
• Validity: Lifetime
• Complexity: Moderate
• Free Retake: Yes
• Number of questions: 10 in each module
• Passing score: 80%

🎯 Dynatrace

Cert Names	Dynatrace Associate	Dynatrace Professional
Price	200 USD	250 USD
Registration	https://university.dynatrace.com/certification/dynatrace	https://university.dynatrace.com/certification/dynatrace
Validity	2 years	2 years
Complexity	Moderate / Tough	Tough
Free Retake	No	No
Number of questions	70	100*
Exam Time	105 minutes	120 minutes
Passing Score	72%	70%

*Dynatrace Professional cert has Practical Exam w/ multiple choice questions. You get 2.25 hours to complete practicals and multiple choice questions. Passing score is 86%

Dynatrace Master Journey requires submitting the application form to Dyntrace.

🎯 New Relic

• Cert Name: New Relic Fundamentals
• Price: Free
• Registration: https://learn.newrelic.com/series/fundamentals
• Validity: 1 year
• Complexity: Moderate
• Free Retake: Yes
• Passing score: 80%

PS: New Relic Certified Performance Pro certification has been retired as on Nov 15 2019.

🎯 AppDynamics

Cert Names	AppDynamics Certified Associate Performance Analyst	AppDynamics Certified Professional
Price	400 USD	400 USD
Registration	https://education.appdynamics.com/	https://education.appdynamics.com
Validity	2 years	2 years
Complexity	Moderate / Tough	Tough
Free Retake	No	No
Number of questions	60-65	50-55
Exam Time	105 minutes	90 minutes
Passing Score	62%	64%

🎯 ISTQB

• Cert Name: Foundation Level Performance Testing
• Price: 199 USD
• Registration: https://www.istqb.org/certification-path-root/performance-testing.html
• Validity: Lifetime
• Complexity: Moderate
• Free Retake: No (there will be promos for free retakes, please check with ISTQB)
• Number of questions: 40
• Exam Time: 90 minutes
• Passing score: 65%

🎯 Others

• OctoPerf

🎯 Retired

• IBM Rational Performance Tester v8

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