In this year’s Things Conference, the ‘Things Certification‘ was launched. It is designed to test your knowledge around the LoRaWAN specification, configuration and implementation. Currently there are four certificates available, and you have to do a 30-minute multiple choice test for each.
Usually they cost €99 each, but they are free until the first of March. Not wanting to miss out I ended up doing all four of them. I had to read up on the LoRaWAN protocol by looking at the 1.0.3 and 1.1 specifications, reading the Things Network documentation, watching some of the Semtech LoRaWAN Academy videos and researching on the Internet. I made a word document with notes for each certification to help me remember the information and which I could refer back to.
The pass mark for each test was 70%. I ended up managing to obtain all of them with the following scores:
- Fundamentals – 96%
- Security – 92%
- Network Management – 76%
- Advanced – 86.7%
I’m very happy with these scores, especially since I had less than a month to do all four. By doing this certification I’ve also enjoyed learning a lot about different aspects of LoRaWAN and radio communication.
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