Getting A Certificate When you successfully complete a course, your achievement will be recognized with a Certificate of Completion, signed by the Instructor. To get the Certificate, you need to pass a final exam that will verify that you have mastered the testing principles and techniques covered in the course. Since these courses are widely recognized in the testing community, the Certificates should be helpful with your career advancement as well as looking nice on your wall. A word about certification . . . Q. What about certification for testing? Is there some kind of official certification, such as "Certified Software Testing Specialist" that you can get by fulfilling a set of requirements? A. Unfortunately, there is currently no industry-accepted standard for software testing certification. The Testing Center is working with other organizations to define such a standard, but it probably isn't going to happen quickly, given the number of parties involved and the lack of a central authority in this field. However, when certification eventually becomes a reality, you can be sure that the techniques you've learned in these courses will include virtually everything you'll need to qualify, since every major testing topic is covered in depth.