How to spot an SDET professional training that is a sham

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Let’s start with the definition of a sham.

SHAM — something that is not what it purports to be

A sham is something fake that assumes the appearance of something else that is real. Like a sham marriage that is used for getting citizenship. Or a sham resume that mentions jobs and companies that do not exist. Or a sham training that pretends that delivers good, detailed, professional, advanced, in-depth content in an impossible timeline.

I got an email recently about an online training for SDET Professional Certification.

Out of curiosity, I checked out its details.

The curriculum

It looks pretty good:

1. Core Java

2. Eclipse IDE

3. TestNG/JUnit

4. ATDD

5. Selenium WebDriver

6. Advanced Selenium Concepts

7. Automation Frameworks

8. Apache Maven

9. Git

10. Cucumber

11. Automated Reporting

12. REST API Automation

13. DevOps