Monday.com expands certifications as AWS cloud credential gains traction

At monday.com, the certification that pays off is the one that maps to the next launch, the next customer call or the next systems problem. The company’s monday academy now serves as its official learning hub for courses, webinars and certifications, and monday.com says those credentials recognize workflow-building, project management and platform mastery inside a product used by more than 250,000 customers worldwide.

For engineers and technical sellers, the clearest outside credential is AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. Amazon Web Services says the exam is built for people who want foundational cloud literacy, including line-of-business employees in sales, product management and project management who need to speak more confidently with technical teams and customers. The test has 65 questions, runs 90 minutes and costs $100. AWS said it had more than 1.42 million active AWS certifications and 1.05 million unique certified individuals as of January 2025, a sign that cloud language has become basic workplace currency rather than a niche technical badge.

Inside monday.com, that same logic shows up in its own training catalog. The company says monday CRM Pro is aimed at client operations managers, sales and account leads, CRM coordinators and specialists, and team leads. Its Admin Certification focuses on governance, permissions and account structure management, which makes it a more useful credential for people who keep workflows secure and organized than for someone looking only to polish a résumé. For employees working in a cloud-based Work OS where teams create workflow apps in minutes, that kind of platform fluency can shave real time off launches and reduce the friction that slows cross-functional work.

Project managers have a different calculation, and the Project Management Institute’s CAPM fits that lane. PMI says no experience is required, and the credential covers predictive project management, agile principles and business analysis. PMI also says project skills are in demand in every industry and every country, which makes CAPM less of a narrow specialty badge and more of a practical entry point for people coordinating product releases, internal rollouts or customer-facing programs.

For Scrum-heavy product and engineering teams, Scrum.org offers a more graduated path. PSM I signals fundamental Scrum mastery, PSM II advances that standard, and PSM III goes further, showing that a certified person can coach, facilitate, mentor and teach Scrum Team members while influencing the broader organization. That progression matters in a company like monday.com, where execution depends on how well teams orchestrate work across product, engineering, sales and operations. The strongest certification is not the one that looks impressive on paper. It is the one that gives each team a sharper vocabulary for the systems it already runs every day.