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Explore certifications and plan your career
Applies to: Facts: all plans · Value score and Career planner: Pro and up · Last updated October 9, 2026
Compare certifications on cost, experience and role recognition, and see what to earn next.
Explore certifications
Open Explorer in the left menu to browse certifications with their cost over three years, experience needed, renewal requirements and DoD 8140 role recognition, each taken from the certifying body’s own published pages. Search by name or job role, and filter by certifying body.
The value score
Each certification gets a score from 0 to 100, built from four parts. You can change how much each part counts:
- Cost over three years (default weight 25)
- Experience needed (20)
- Role recognition, from the DoD 8140 matrix and recognized CMMC roles (30)
- How much it renews what you already hold (25)
If there is no published data for a part, that part is left out rather than guessed. The score does not use salary or job-demand figures.
Plan your next certification
- Open Career planner in the left menu.
- Pick a DoD 8140 work role.
- See where you stand at each proficiency level, which certifications qualify and which you already hold.
Good to know
- The Explorer shows published requirements. It does not decide whether you or your organization meet DoD 8140 or contract requirements.
Still stuck? Email [email protected] and tell us what you were trying to do.
Track it all in one place
MyCertRenewal lets you log an activity once and see the credit it earns at each certification it applies to. Start free with up to 2 certifications.
Certification renewal and CPE/CEU tracking for IT and security professionals who hold more than one certification. MyCertRenewal is a ConsultraCloud product.
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