Hi Planjewar5 ,
I would recommend reaching out directly to the Qualtrics certification team or support. I don't know that the certification team really monitors the Community pages.

https://www.qualtrics.com/community/discussion/comment/31068#Comment_31068Thanks for the input

For anyone else curious about this question, this is what our Certification team had to say, "The L1 (Qualtrics Platform Essentials) course provides an introduction to Qualtrics and XM. It is a recommended (but not required) prerequisite for any of the L2 certification courses. If you are new to Qualtrics we would recommend beginning with the L1 course because the L2 courses will assume you are already familiar with the L1 content. However, if you are an advanced user you are more than welcome to skip ahead and complete the L2 course. If you find yourself confused by any of the content covered then we would recommend going back to the L1 course to review."