IT administrators, take heed. Google plans to introduce a new certification exam for the Chrome operating system.

The Professional Chrome OS Administrator certification will launch in the fall, a Chrome spokesperson confirmed to ZDNet. It will replace the Chrome OS admin certification, which is currently offline.

"Like all certifications, this exam is meant to showcase to the market an individual's extensive skill set in a certain area," Leah Coleman, who works on partner training and enablement for Chrome OS, told ZDNet. 

Certifications in computer science are offered by a variety of organizations and are typically test-based measures of your proficiency in a certain skill or tool. 

The previous version of the Chrome OS administrator credential measured your ability to:

• Manage Chrome OS devices with Google's Admin console

• Configure and manage organizational unit access and security and privacy settings

• Create, delete, and administer user accounts for an organization

"Google wants to make sure that the exam meets the high bar the industry expects of Google," Coleman said. 

In this case, we think we are excelling beyond what's expected in that our new exam will offer a hands-on lab, which is actually less common. Google wants to give those who pass the test something to be really proud of. With that, we are just working on some improvements to make it the best in the business.

Linux-based Chrome OS has 11% global market share for desktop operating systems, according to market intelligence firm IDC. Linux-based Chrome OS lags far behind Microsoft's Windows, which has about 80% of the operating system market. However, in 2020 ChromeOS pushed macOS to third place with about 7% of the market.

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