# How does FreeCodeCamp decide certificate validity?

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/how-does-freecodecamp-decide-certificate-validity/315986>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 20, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/how-does-freecodecamp-decide-certificate-validity/315986 "2019-09-20T20:43:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![aelmosalamy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/aelmosalamy/32/167405_2.png) [@aelmosalamy](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/aelmosalamy)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/how-does-freecodecamp-decide-certificate-validity/315986/1 "2019-09-20T20:43:33Z")

</div>

Hello everyone, So I just completed 2/5 from the Responsive Web Design Certificate, and I wanted to know, does FCC check the projects I built? How does it know that it met the requirements? I just insert the CodePen links and click “Submit” and FCC goes to next project. I even tried to remove a requirement and submit and FCC didn’t show any errors.

TLDR: I want an elaboration of how does FCC know that you actually completed the project and did it correctly.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![aelmosalamy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/aelmosalamy/32/167405_2.png) [@aelmosalamy](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/aelmosalamy)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/how-does-freecodecamp-decide-certificate-validity/315986/3 "2019-09-21T11:29:07Z")

</div>

So there is no algorithm-based validation of any sort? What is the Project Test Suite for then? Don’t you think this affects the certificate’s liability?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![lasjorg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/lasjorg/32/280761_2.png) [@lasjorg](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/lasjorg)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/how-does-freecodecamp-decide-certificate-validity/315986/4 "2019-09-21T12:19:06Z")

</div>

You can read a bit about this problem on this [Github issue](https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp/issues/35054).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ILM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/ilm/32/363239_2.png) [@ILM](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/ILM)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/how-does-freecodecamp-decide-certificate-validity/315986/5 "2021-01-17T09:28:12Z")

</div>