Learning corner: Free IT certifications and courses

Superb! Nice share, but I see no certification, am I wrong?

Thank you for these links

Ec-council released a free essentials series for beginners who wants to jump into cybersec, with the possibility to get certificate in Network Defense Essentials, Ethical Hacking Essentials and Digital Forensics Essentials:

https://codered.eccouncil.org/essentials-series-bundle/
 

For all the women of this community, the "AWS She Builds - SkillUp with CloudUp - Cloud Practitioner" event gives free course and free voucher for the exam AWS Cloud Practitioner certification:

https://awsshebuildscloudupcpe.splashthat.com/

Thank you for sharing this, @marcofabbri  - appreciate you keep this thread up to date! 

I am on my AWS learning journey, and currently taking AWS Cloud Practitioner course, so this program is right in time for me  Going to register and participate. Thanks again!

@Kseniya  could this be first post updated? :)

OT Free courses with certification included:

[VEEAM]

Veeam University: Veeam surely.

https://veeam.looop.co/

[Cybersecurity]

Infosec Montly Challenge: Metasploit Framework, Secure and Insecure Protocols and Phyton are the topics of the month. Each path has a corresponding CPE credit.

https://www.infosecinstitute.com/skills/monthly-challenge-overview/

E-learnsecurity ejpt free course: no need of presentation, that’s the best pratical cert is for getting started in the world of cybercert.

https://info.ine.com/cyber-security-month/

Cisco released a new cybersecuity course with related certification, it talks about “Threat Hunting, Risk Management, Network Firewall” and it will prepare for the role of “Cybersecurity Technician, Junior Cybersecurity Analyst, Tier 1 Help Desk Support”.
Just launched as free.

https://skillsforall.com/career-path/cybersecurity

Ec-council released a free essentials series for beginners who wants to jump into cybersec, with the possibility to get certificate in Network Defense Essentials, Ethical Hacking Essentials and Digital Forensics Essentials:

https://codered.eccouncil.org/essentials-series-bundle/

[Cloud]

For all the women of this community, the "AWS She Builds - SkillUp with CloudUp - Cloud Practitioner" event gives free course and free voucher for the exam AWS Cloud Practitioner certification:

https://awsshebuildscloudupcpe.splashthat.com/

OCI Certified FREE by Oracle: for a limited time free OCI certification exams until December 28 February 2022.

https://blogs.oracle.com/oracleuniversity/post/guide-to-getting-oci-certified-for-free

Microsoft Virtual Training Days: “Foundamental level” free certification after 2 webinars.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/trainingdays

[Programming]

Harvard University is offering python course for free (with optional certification), the life changing CS50P, and it start in April 2022:

https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-to-programming-with-python

Python Free course and certification at FreeCodeCamp:

https://www.freecodecamp.org/

Absolutely, @marcofabbri    The post has been updated.

UPDATE:

[Microsoft]
There’s a new Microsoft Skills Challenge Spring Edition!
https://pulse.microsoft.com/sv-se/microsoft-spring-skills-challenge/

You must select a learning path: Azure Fundamentals, AI Fundamentals, Data Fundamentals, Power Platform Fundamentals, Security and Compliance Identity Fundamentals.
Then follow free course and register to Certification Exam with a 100% discount on voucher!

Already done cert AZ 900 & AZ104

[Kubernetes]

Free Kubernetes Training by Veeam, with 3 badges after completation: Apprentice, Defender, Helmsman

https://learning.kasten.io/

[Virtualization]

Thanks to @victorwu 
“The VMware Skyline Advisor Pro Technologist badge validates skills for supporting, managing, and planning environments through proactive monitoring and issue remediation. The badge holder helps organizations use VMware Skyline Advisor Pro to proactively avoid issues before they occur, increase network reliability and security, ensure peak performance, and reduce time-to-resolution for service requests.”

https://blogs.vmware.com/kb/2022/02/get-your-vmware-skyline-advisor-pro-technologist-certification-today.html

Free course +  VMware Skyline Advisor Pro Technologist Certification after the course (with 70% of correct answers)

completed 

Link State wrote:

completed 

 

Amazing!!

[Cybersecurity]

For those residing in Ireland, there’s this program of journey into cybersecurity from Beginner to Advanced, with a certification at every stage. I think it’s an amazing opportunity.

https://www.cyberquest.ie/

Any freebies are always good. 

I’ve been using TryHackMe | Cyber Security Training which offers different learning paths. There are quite a few rooms that are free to learn, and it offers the ability to spin up some Virtual Machines within the browser. 

Yeah I’m an active and premium user on TryHackme too (and that’s super useful!!), but there’s no certification after each rooms :)

Ah yes, good point! 

Free #Nutanix exams (NCA, NCP, NCM). One per person. Valid until May 15 :)
Code: NTXRF22E

Just started Cisco Free Weekend!

FULL course on ITPROtv, that’s a great source of learning with cert of completion.

Cisco CCT Routing and Switching (100-490)

Cisco CCNA (200-301)

Cisco CyberOps Associate (200-201)

Cisco CCNP Enterprise ENCOR (350-401)

Cisco CCNP Enterprise ENARSI (Exam 300-410)

Cisco CCNP Security SCOR (Exam 350-701)

Cisco CCNP Security SNCF (Exam 300-710)

Cisco Certified DevNet Associate (200-901)

Nice share man!!

Hi there,
I would like to share with all of you the Fortinet program for cyber, free.

https://www.fortinet.com/training/cybersecurity-professionals

I'm a Fortinet products user, and it's very interesting, 
check it out!!
cheers!

Thanks for sharing.  We are resellers now so need to check this out. 

UPDATE:

[Security]

I know it's a popular name these days, often criticized for no reason. But I don't want to talk about this.
As a Kaspersky Certified Professional, I can only happily recommend the full course of training + exam that is free and very well made.

https://support.kaspersky.com/learning/certification

@Kseniya there’s an updated list.

This is a really rule breaker topic 😂

[Veeam]

Veeam University: Veeam surely.

https://www.veeam.com/free-on-demand-trainings.html 

[Cybersecurity]

Infosec Montly Challenge: Metasploit Framework, Secure and Insecure Protocols and Phyton are the topics of the month. Each path has a corresponding CPE credit.

https://www.infosecinstitute.com/skills/monthly-challenge-overview/

For those residing in Ireland, there’s this program of journey into cybersecurity from Beginner to Advanced, with a certification at every stage. I think it’s an amazing opportunity.

https://www.cyberquest.ie/

Ec-council released a free essentials series for beginners who wants to jump into cybersec, with the possibility to get certificate in Network Defense Essentials, Ethical Hacking Essentials and Digital Forensics Essentials:

https://codered.eccouncil.org/essentials-series-bundle/

Linux foundation has many course with final examination and certificate

https://training.linuxfoundation.org/resources/?_sft_content_type=free-course

[Cloud]

For all the women of this community, the "AWS She Builds - SkillUp with CloudUp - Cloud Practitioner" event gives free course and free voucher for the exam AWS Cloud Practitioner certification:

https://awsshebuildscloudupcpe.splashthat.com/

Microsoft Virtual Training Days: “Foundamental level” free certification after 2 webinars.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/trainingdays

Jumpcloud core certification

Core certification validates the strong foundational knowledge needed to execute standard implementation, configurations, and daily operations across the JumpCloud platform.

https://jumpcloud.com/university/certifications/core

If you are unemployed, this courses are for you. They give a full 360 knowledge about AWS.

https://aws.amazon.com/it/training/restart/

[Kubernetes]

Free Kubernetes Training by Veeam, with 3 badges after completation: Apprentice, Defender, Helmsman

https://learning.kasten.io/

[Virtualization]

Thanks to @victorwu 
“The VMware Skyline Advisor Pro Technologist badge validates skills for supporting, managing, and planning environments through proactive monitoring and issue remediation. The badge holder helps organizations use VMware Skyline Advisor Pro to proactively avoid issues before they occur, increase network reliability and security, ensure peak performance, and reduce time-to-resolution for service requests.”

https://blogs.vmware.com/kb/2022/02/get-your-vmware-skyline-advisor-pro-technologist-certification-today.html

Free course +  VMware Skyline Advisor Pro Technologist Certification after the course (with 70% of correct answers)

Thanks to @JMeixner 

Free #Nutanix exams (NCA, NCP, NCM). One per person. Valid until May 15 :)
Code: NTXRF22E

Register on https://www.nutanixuniversity.com/learn, enrol for the training and register for the exam before May 15th. But, of course, the exam can be scheduled AFTER May 15th.

[Programming]

Harvard University is offering python course for free (with optional certification), the life changing CS50P, and it start in April 2022:

https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-to-programming-with-python

Python Free course and certification at FreeCodeCamp:

https://www.freecodecamp.org/

[Firewall]

Fortinet base course with filan certification

https://www.fortinet.com/training/cybersecurity-professionals

[Security]

I know it's a popular name these days, often criticized for no reason. But I don't want to talk about this.
As a Kaspersky Certified Professional, I can only happily recommend the full course of training + exam that is free and very well made.

https://support.kaspersky.com/learning/certification

Free ISO-IEC-27001 course+certificate

https://www.skillfront.com/ISO-IEC-27001-Information-Security-Associate

[Monitoring & Analytics]

A monitoring platform, with free course and exam with last certification.

https://www.sumologic.com/learn/training/

No need of presentation. Google Analytics people.

https://analytics.google.com/analytics/academy/

A graph and analytics program with course and exam, plus a free t-shirt.

https://neo4j.com/graphacademy/neo4j-certification/

@vmiss33 sorry I tag Kseniya instead of you.

Can you please update my firs post with this updated version?
Thanks!! :)))