Roadmap¶

Portfolio size and counting rule¶

Roadmap numbers count planned study-guide targets, not badges, learning courses, product bundles, translated copies, renewal assessments, or Applied Skills. When one credential requires more than one independently published exam, each exam gets its own guide and counts separately. For example, the retiring Windows Server Hybrid Administrator credential has separate AZ-800 and AZ-801 guides. CompTIA A+ will need a similar component-exam decision during inventory.

The first wave is deliberately smaller than several vendors' complete catalogs. It gives the library meaningful cross-vendor coverage without promising dozens of thin pages before the source adapters and human-review process have been tested.

Vendor	Published now	First-wave guide target	Remaining in first wave	Scope note
GitHub	5	5	0	Complete current public certification family.
Microsoft	50	50	0	Selected queue and September 1 live-catalog/lifecycle reconciliation complete. Excludes Microsoft Office Specialist and Microsoft Certified Educator.
HashiCorp	4	4	0	Complete current Terraform and Vault certification catalog.
Databricks	7	7	0	Complete current catalog: Data Analyst, both Data Engineer and Machine Learning levels, Generative AI Engineer, and Spark Developer.
AWS	14	14	0	Complete September 1 indexed exam/version set. ANS-C01 retires December 31 with no replacement announced; MLA-C02 is an English beta scheduled as ME1-C02 beginning September 29. Microcredentials are out of scope.
OpenAI	0 guides / 1 limited-access reference	1 conditional	1 conditional	OpenAI Certified is documented but invite-only for eligible Enterprise/Edu workspaces. The dated AI Foundations map remains outside guide counts until OpenAI exposes a stable public blueprint and fuller assessment/lifecycle contract. The separate public Academy completion course is not the certification.
Anthropic	0 guides / 1 partner-gated reference	0 public / 1 partner	0 public	Claude Certified Architect, Foundations is publicly named and a dated partner reference is published, but its blueprint remains in Partner Academy. Public Claude Academy courses are mapped as preparation, not certification scope. Do not reconstruct gated objectives.
Red Hat	5	5	0	Complete selected set: EX200, EX267, EX280, EX294, and EX378.
CompTIA	7	7	0	Complete selected set: Tech+, both A+ V15 components, Network+, Security+, Linux+, and Cloud+.
Linux Foundation	5	5	0	Selected first wave complete: LFCA, LFCS, CKA, CKAD, and CKS. The public catalog is much larger, so complete-catalog coverage is intentionally not a first-wave promise.
Total	97	98	1 conditional	No actionable first-wave guide remains; the only gap is the conditional OpenAI guide awaiting a stable public blueprint, fuller assessment contract, and broader availability.

Counts are a dated planning baseline, not evergreen vendor facts. Recheck the official AWS exam-guide index, Databricks certification catalog, Red Hat certification paths, Linux Foundation catalog, OpenAI certification announcement, and Anthropic partner-program announcement before adding or removing targets. CompTIA remains marked inventory-required until its live catalog can be independently enumerated from an official source.

Library-wide publication status¶

The first-wave table above preserves the original delivery commitment. The library has since expanded to 223 published guides across 26 vendors, with only three seed-only records outside the published catalog. All three are legacy Splunk tracks retained for lifecycle history rather than assumed current study demand; no active seed remains unpublished.

Vendor	Published guides	Seed-only records	Current roadmap state
AWS	14	0	Selected catalog complete
Cisco	4	0	Selected catalog complete
CompTIA	7	0	Selected catalog complete
C++ Institute	6	0	Current selected exams complete
Databricks	7	0	Current selected catalog complete
Fortinet	19	0	Inventoried portfolio published; MSSP remains a changing pre-publication reference and NSE 8 has scheduled elective availability
GitHub	6	0	Current selected family complete, including GH-600 beta
Google Cloud	8	0	Selected catalog complete; monitor Agentic Architect beta
HashiCorp	4	0	Current Terraform and Vault catalog complete
ISACA	3	0	Selected CISA/CISM/CRISC family complete
ISC2	4	0	Selected catalog complete
JavaScript Institute	4	0	Current selected exams complete
Linux Foundation	5	0	Selected first wave complete; broader catalog remains future scope
Microsoft	50	0	Selected role-based catalog complete; Office Specialist is tracked separately and Educator remains deferred
Microsoft Office Specialist	5	0	Current selected Microsoft 365 Apps Word, Excel, and PowerPoint set complete; Outlook remains coming soon
MongoDB	3	0	Selected associate set complete
NVIDIA	3	0	Selected AI portfolio complete
IBM	6	0	Selected AI, QRadar, Guardium, and Db2 enterprise anchors complete
Oracle	12	0	Java SE 21, the selected OCI/Database core, and five advanced OCI 2026 professional guides complete
Palo Alto Networks	17	0	Inventoried role-based portfolio complete
Python Institute	10	0	Current inventoried exam versions complete
Red Hat	5	0	Selected performance-based set complete
Salesforce	4	0	Selected catalog complete
ServiceNow	2	0	Selected administrator/developer set complete
Snowflake	4	0	Selected current/retired transition set complete
Splunk	11	3 legacy	All current tracks complete; legacy rows remain inventory-only
Total	223	3 legacy	No active seed-only record remains; OpenAI and Anthropic remain separately documented conditional/gated references

Current production order¶

The Microsoft, partner-reference, and Databricks blocks are complete. Use this next agreed sequence:

AWS (complete): maintain all 14 September 1 indexed exam/version guides; keep MLA-C01's September 28 retirement, MLA-C02's beta transition, and ANS-C01's December 31 retirement visible.
Red Hat (complete): maintain the five selected performance-based anchors and their explicit product-version baselines.
CompTIA (complete): maintain seven guides, treating A+ V15 Core 1 and Core 2 as independent exams that must be passed from the same version.
Linux Foundation (complete): maintain LFCA, LFCS, CKA, CKAD, and CKS, preserving the distinction between multiple-choice and performance-based assessments, rolling Kubernetes versions, and the previously-passed-CKA prerequisite for CKS.
Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft Office expansion (complete): publish the source-safe Java SE 21 Oracle pilot, six selected IBM enterprise anchors, and five live Microsoft 365 Apps MOS exams.
Oracle OCI and Database core wave (complete): publish current OCI 2026 Foundations, Architect Associate, Cloud Operations, and Security guides plus Oracle AI Database SQL and Administration Associate guides; monitor the public MyLearn data rather than carrying 2025 exam versions forward.
Oracle Advanced OCI wave (complete): publish current 2026 Architect, Developer, DevOps, Networking, and Observability Professional guides while preserving the Networking path's isolated stale 2025 sentence as a visible provider inconsistency.
Checkpoint reached: review value, source quality, accessibility, practitioner feedback, and weekly-maintenance cost before expanding again.

The selected Microsoft queue has 0 remaining exams, and the September 1 live-catalog/lifecycle reconciliation is complete. MB-335, MB-700, PL-500, and PL-600 retired June 30; AZ-204 and MB-280 retired July 31; AZ-500 and PL-200 retired August 31. They are not untracked current gaps. The ordered record is in the guide backlog. The selected Microsoft 365 Apps Office Specialist wave is now published separately; Microsoft Certified Educator, Office 2019, coming-soon Outlook, and job-specific Office breadth remain deferred.

Expansion candidates after the first-wave checkpoint¶

These targets are deliberately excluded from the 98-guide first-wave total until their exact live catalogs and public-blueprint quality are inventoried. They are recorded now so they are not lost, but the post-checkpoint order remains a maintainer decision.

Vendor	Provisional first set	Rationale and source boundary
Google Cloud	8	All eight selected guides are source validated, including the published two-part Professional Agentic Architect beta. Revalidate that beta frequently through registration, assessment/lab windows and GA.
Cisco	4	Complete September 2, 2026: 100-150 CCST Networking, 100-160 CCST Cybersecurity, 200-301 CCNA, and 200-901 CCNA Automation are source validated. CCNA v1.1 remains current through February 2, 2027 with v2.0 separately mapped; CCNA Automation uses the detailed v1.1 PDF while monitoring a lagging v1.0 landing-page label.
Snowflake	4	Complete September 2, 2026: retired SOL-C01 Associate: Platform, active COF-C03 Core, DEA-C02 Advanced Data Engineer, and GES-C02 Specialty: Gen AI are source validated. Do not carry retired COF-C02 or GES-C01 forward as current.
ISC2	4	Complete September 2, 2026: CC, SSCP, CCSP, and CISSP are source validated against their current outlines. Keep exam readiness separate from experience, Associate, endorsement, membership and CPE requirements.
NVIDIA	3	Complete September 2, 2026: NCA-GENL Generative AI LLMs, NCA-AIIO AI Infrastructure and Operations, and NCP-AIO AI Operations are source validated. NCP-AIO preserves the 30-question plus three-integrated-lab contract and requires Linux CLI, Slurm, Kubernetes and Base Command Manager performance practice.
Salesforce	4	Complete September 2, 2026: Platform Administrator, Platform App Builder, Platform Developer, and Agentforce Specialist are source validated. Agentforce preserves the Spring ’26 exam baseline separately from weekly product changes and Summer ’26 maintenance.
MongoDB	3	Complete September 2, 2026: Associate Developer, Associate Data Modeler, and Associate Atlas Administrator are published. Atlas Administrator maps all 13 public path skills but still requires enrolled detailed-objective reconciliation; no hidden weights are invented. The self-managed Database Administrator remains future breadth.
ServiceNow	2	Complete September 2, 2026: Certified System Administrator and Certified Application Developer are source validated against KB0011554 and KB0011498. CAD preserves the current mainline-versus-MeasureUp weighting discrepancy; both enforce ServiceNow's official-MeasureUp-only practice boundary.
Microsoft Office Specialist	5	Complete September 4, 2026: MO-110, MO-210, MO-310, MO-111, and MO-211 cover the five selected live Microsoft 365 Apps Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Associate/Expert exams. MO-410 remained coming soon; Office 2019 and job-specific variants remain future breadth.
IBM	6	Complete September 4, 2026: Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals, watsonx Generative AI Engineer, QRadar SIEM Associate and Administrator, Guardium Data Protection Administrator, and Db2 13 for z/OS Database Administrator are source validated against IBM's live machine-readable exam contracts.
Oracle	12	Complete September 4, 2026: Java SE 21; the current six-guide OCI/Database core; and current 2026 OCI Architect, Developer, DevOps, Networking, and Observability Professional guides. The MyLearn API exposes exact exam identities, durations, and public scope. The Networking path's isolated stale 2025 sentence is preserved as a verification warning. Remaining database, AI, multicloud, MySQL, applications, hardware, and older Java roles are future breadth.

Recheck the official Google Cloud, Cisco, Snowflake, ISC2, NVIDIA, Salesforce, MongoDB, and ServiceNow catalogs during formal inventory.

The Palo Alto Networks 17-title inventory is fully published. Fortinet's 19-certification post-July 2026 portfolio is also published; keep the MSSP pre-publication boundary, NSE 8 elective schedule, announced option exams, and version retirements visible until the provider resolves them. All 11 current Splunk tracks are published, while its three explicitly Legacy records remain inventory-only. The selected CISA/CISM/CRISC ISACA family is complete. Oracle's Java SE 21 Developer Professional, six-guide OCI/Database core, and five-guide Advanced OCI wave are published. Broader database, AI, multicloud, MySQL, applications, hardware, and older Java inventory remains future breadth because those catalogs are broad and version-sensitive. The Python Institute/OpenEDG catalog was inventoried September 2, 2026 and all ten current exam versions are published. The programming collection now has a current Oracle Java, OCI, SQL, and database-administration anchors while broader Oracle catalog reconciliation continues. The related OpenEDG C++ and JavaScript Institute catalogs were reconciled and inventoried September 2, 2026; use CPE and JSE as their entry-level pilots. Kubernetes and CNCF credentials remain under the Linux Foundation provider, with their own visible collection. See the backlog for the checkable list.

Phase 1: GitHub reference implementation¶

Seed the five GitHub certification guides.
Register the exams, vendors, canonical blueprints, and review state.
Monitor Microsoft Learn objective changes.
Validate guide paths, metadata, Markdown structure, and local links.
Keep all guides explicitly marked as independent AI-generated drafts until reviewed.

Phase 2: Source and coverage review¶

Register the individual public sources already cited by the seed guides.
Map published objectives to guide sections and supporting sources.
Normalize guide structure and depth using docs/GUIDE-QUALITY-STANDARD.md; continue closing objective-level gaps independently of raw page length.
Review material claims and promote guides independently to SOURCE-VALIDATED.
Establish machine-readable review evidence and promote GH-900 and GH-300 after source validation.
Deepen and source-validate all six GitHub certification guides, including the GH-600 beta expansion.
Add structured correction/source forms and weekly source-health monitoring.
Establish bounded, read-only independent AI-audit batches with snapshot-bound evidence, machine-checked verdicts, and a separate repair pass; complete the first ten-guide risk pilot and a 29-guide GitHub/Microsoft/Azure follow-up wave, then repair and fresh-context revalidate 12 flagged guides, resolving 22 findings while retaining two explicit SSH Direct evidence gaps.
Establish recurring, review-gated official-source freshness scans that discover first-party pages outside the registered catalog; complete the initial 13-guide GitHub/Microsoft/Azure pass, apply five high-confidence corrections, and queue 23 unique source candidates including the new GH-600 blueprint.
Review the remaining four source candidates: add and validate GH-600, apply the ELM and GHES release-ledger sources to GH-100, and retain the unresolved Cisco CCNA logistics conflict as an explicit checkout warning.
Add alternative learning formats where they materially help, such as concise reviews, diagrams, and labs.
Record known gaps without ranking one learning style as universally best.

Phase 3: Public site¶

Add a searchable static-site configuration.
Generate navigation and guide cards from the exam catalog.
Group every generated guide listing by beginner, intermediate/specialty, and expert/professional level, then sort naturally by exam code within each group.
Show provenance, freshness, review state, and VERIFY CURRENT warnings prominently.
Add a strict site build and generated-link validation.
Complete keyboard, contrast, mobile, screen-reader, and print review.
Add and approve the GitHub Pages deployment workflow.
Normalize guide headings, constrain the visible table of contents to major sections, simplify provider navigation, and add a homepage skip target.
Clarify the sources-and-objectives quality gate and publish a maintainer/About page.
Obtain complete external practitioner reviews of GH-300, AZ-104, and Terraform Associate (004) before labeling any of them community reviewed.
Submit the public sitemap to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools after account-level site verification.

Phase 4: Microsoft expansion (complete)¶

Phase 5: Vendor-neutral pilot (complete)¶

Inventory all four current HashiCorp certifications: Terraform Associate (004), Terraform Authoring and Operations Advanced, Vault Associate (003), and Vault Operations Advanced (formerly Professional; stable internal code retained).
Build and source-validate the remaining Terraform and Vault guides one at a time.
Generate provider navigation, cards, catalogs, and labels from data/vendors.json rather than fixed GitHub/Microsoft lists.
Add HashiCorp Terraform Associate (004) as the first non-Microsoft-platform guide.
Support provider-published objective maps that do not include percentage weights.
Add and test a HashiCorp Developer objective adapter alongside the Microsoft Learn adapter.
Complete source validation of the Terraform Associate draft.
Complete practitioner review of the Terraform Associate guide.
After the partner AI block, use Databricks Data Engineer Associate as the next provider pilot to test a third blueprint format before defining a broader adapter interface.

Phase 6: Partner AI and Databricks checkpoint¶

Complete the remaining Microsoft backlog and lifecycle reconciliation.
Produce the strongest public-source-safe OpenAI certification coverage available, with partner access and blueprint gaps labeled.
Produce the strongest public-source-safe Anthropic partner-certification coverage available without copying gated content.
Inventory and publish all seven Databricks certifications; preserve the downloadable official exam-guide baselines and sample-question integrity boundary.
Complete the portfolio and maintenance checkpoint before choosing the next vendor sequence; the maintainer selected the AWS, Red Hat, CompTIA, and Linux Foundation first wave on September 1, 2026.

Phase 7: First-wave inventory and provider patterns¶

Inventory all 14 AWS exam/version guides in the September 1 official index, then publish Cloud Practitioner as the AWS adapter and guide pattern.
Inventory the five Red Hat specialization anchors and current public product baselines, then publish RHCSA as the first Red Hat guide.
Complete the selected CompTIA inventory and adopt separate A+ Core 1 and Core 2 guides, then publish Tech+ as the foundational provider pattern.
Inventory LFCA, LFCS, CKA, CKAD, and CKS, then publish LFCS as the first Linux Foundation performance-based guide.
Publish Google Cloud, Cisco, Snowflake, ISC2, NVIDIA, Salesforce, MongoDB, and ServiceNow after the completed current first wave. Google Cloud inventory is complete; Cloud Digital Leader, Generative AI Leader, and Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect and Professional Data Engineer, Professional Cloud Security Engineer and Professional Machine Learning Engineer and the Professional Agentic Architect beta are source validated; the selected Google Cloud set is complete. Cisco's selected four-guide set and the remaining selected vendor sets are complete.

Phase 8: Balanced family expansion¶

Complete all 14 current AWS exam/version guides.
Complete the five Red Hat specialization anchors.
Complete the seven selected CompTIA foundation/core exam guides.
Complete LFCA, LFCS, CKA, CKAD, and CKS.
Review first-wave value, usage, source quality, maintenance cost, and human feedback before expanding Red Hat or Linux Foundation toward their full catalogs.

Work integration¶

The work repository remains downstream. It may add private content and reformat public guides through a private overlay or build step. Internal content, branding, and presentation rules never become dependencies of the public project.