A common certification at the time was earned by taking an online class and answering multiple choice questions ... and blamo you had a certificate that they found on a lot of resumes. It didn't require much of any actual scientific knowledge.
I'm trying to change this behavior by incorporating objective examinations into one of my specializations and it's extremely difficult.
100: https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-100...
200: https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-200...
They are both available online for free and you download a little certificate afterward.
ICS is the Incident Command System used by law, fire, and other agencies to manage "incidents" -- anything from, "my kid just disappeared from my front yard" to "the entire town of Paradise just burned to the ground, now what do we do?"
There are some principles in ICS that any technical manager should find helpful. Someday I'd like to write a long article on what technical managers can learn from ICS, but in the meantime I'm happy to suggest other people just take the first two courses.