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Getting your certification because you think you might get fired otherwise is a stupid idea. If I got my certification back when I thought I needed it, three things would have happened:
I would have needlessly spent a lot of money on crash-course training.
The certification would have gone to waste because I’ve been asked to do C++ programming since then.
Java certification should be representative of your working knowledge, not a measure of how hard you studied.