Certification - how will magento 2 release affect it? [closed]

Question

I am about to shortly sit my certification exam but am now seeing a lot of hype around magento 2.

Does anyone know how the release of Magento 2 will affect the current certificaiton?

Will it sill be valid? Will it need updated/replaced etc?

Answer 1

Although this type of question really doesn't belong here, both because it's Magento 2 related and also purely opinion based, I'm going to answer it anyway...

Take the exam! There most likely won't be a certification available for Magento 2 on release day, but there will certainly be one eventually. The existing exam will still hold plenty of validity. Besides, who better to replatform Magento 1.x merchants onto Magento 2.0 when it's released than those who have a 1.x cert and/or 2.x cert once it's out there?

The hype/activity on twitter you've seen over the past couple days is what happens when a select group of individuals (including myself) gather with Magento to help determine the architecture and product direction Magento 2 will take. You won't see an alpha release yet for quite some time.