About CertiGuard

What this is

CertiGuard is a certification cost and fact reference, not a training vendor and not a career counselor. It exists to answer one question as precisely as vendor and government sources allow: what does this certification actually cost, all in, and what does the occupation it maps to actually pay? Every certification profile, comparison, and guide is built from the vendor's own published pricing and exam requirements, joined to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation data, with a source link on every claim.

We do not sell courses, bootcamps, or exam vouchers, we do not recruit for jobs, and we do not rank certifications by anything other than what the vendor and BLS records say.

Who runs it

CertiGuard is written and edited by Mario Bailey, who builds and maintains the ROI Index that underpins the site: vendor-verified exam costs joined to BLS wage data, with the method documented in the open. His background is in banking, not IT training or career coaching. Read the full bio for where that angle comes from, and see the editorial policy for how pages get written, checked, and corrected.

Why it exists

Certification pricing is scattered across dozens of vendor pages, each redesigned on its own schedule, and renewal costs in particular get buried well past the sticker price shown at checkout: continuing-education fees, mandatory course bundles, and retake costs rarely sit next to the number a vendor leads with. CertiGuard exists to put the real all-in cost, the real renewal math, and the real occupation pay in one place, sourced back to the vendor and BLS pages that establish them, and joined by the ROI Index so every certification can be compared on the same terms.

How it makes money

This site is advertising-supported. Ads never influence how we score or describe any certification.

We do not accept payment to feature, omit, or rank any certification or vendor, and we do not run native advertising made to look like editorial content. Ads, when they run, are clearly labeled as advertisements and never appear on this page, the editorial policy, methodology, contact, privacy, or terms pages. See the privacy policy for what advertising cookies would collect once ads are live.