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Hey everyone,

I have a question and would really appreciate your advice.

I passed AZ-900 last year, and through the AI Skills Fest I now have an Azure voucher that I can use for any Azure certification.

I'm thinking of using it for an Associate-level certification. I have no professional experience yet, but I'll be joining a service-based company in about 3–4 months, so I have enough time to prepare.

Which Associate certification would you recommend that will provide the best long-term value? I know that a certification by itself won't guarantee career growth, but I'm more interested in learning skills that will be genuinely useful in the future.

Right now, I'm leaning toward the new Azure AI app and agent developer associate (which is the successor to the ai engineer cert) because AI seems like a rapidly growing area.

Would you recommend that, or is there another Associate certification that would be a better investment for someone in my position?

Built a small credential-hunting tool for authorized post-exploitation enumeration on Windows and Linux.

https://github.com/NeCr00/Credential-Hunting

The idea is simple: after gaining access to a host, the tool helps identify hardcoded reusable credentials that may support privilege escalation or lateral movement. It focuses on passwords and host-access credentials, not generic API tokens.

It runs in phases:

OS-specific checks
Credential databases and known credential files
Suspicious filename discovery
Broad filetype content scanning

The goal is to make credential discovery faster, cleaner, and less noisy during HTB-style labs, CTFs, and real-world authorized pentests.

Would love feedback from other pentesters on detection logic, false-positive reduction, and useful locations/filetypes to include.

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GENUINE FIRSTHAND ADVICE NEEDED

Credentials Hunting