Which certification should you start with?

The recommendation is editorial. It is our opinion about the sensible first exam for someone with your answers, and the result page labels it that way rather than dressing it up as an analysis of your situation.

Every number beside the recommendation is not editorial. Each belongs to the certification it sits under and is printed with that certification's own named, dated source. We never print one certification's attribution under another one's figure.

Recommendations only ever resolve to certifications that exist in the McQuizzy catalogue, so you can always go and practise the thing you were told to take.