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Don't believe him: the only Real Advanced Perl Certificates are to be ordered from me. They come in full colour prints (you may even choose the text colour yourself) on thick cream-coloured paper with (of course) Gothic lettering and hand-signed by myself. To make sure that these certificates are the real stuff, they come with a certificate stating that they are real and valid for any legal purpose. You cannot get them any more official than that!

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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Perl Certification
by nightwave (Initiate) on Aug 08, 2010 at 04:40 UTC
    Well if you really HAVE to have a Perl Certifcation that is from someone that an Employers HR Dept. MIGHT respect, you could try the one from CIW. It used to be just a test of Perl that was part of another Certification, but now it is a Certification on its own, CIW Perl Specialist.

    http://www.ciwcertified.com/Certifications/Web_Development_Series/perl.php

      Sure, a Perl test on a PHP page: that seems legit. ;-)

      CountZero

      A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

      I was just curious, but I got Bad Request (Invalid Hostname) and same for http://www.ciw-certified.com/store/perl.php.

      maybe they could not sell enough certificates ? ;-)

        Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner.

        No, CIW is quite alive and well, although they were revising their website back then.

        http://www.ciwcertified.com/Certifications/Web_Development_Series/perl.php

        It's actualy part of a trio of exams that you have to pass to earn the CIW Web Development Professional certification, the other 2 being CIW JavaScript Specialist & CIW Database Design Specialist.

        The HR types love certifications, and the CIW Web Development Professional combination of a front-end scripting language certification, a back-end programming language certification, a database certification, and a web development certification is an easy way for them to check off the boxes for a position in Web Programming and Development.