Possibly one of the following posts mayhelp you out:
https://coderanch.com/t/685081#3216192https://coderanch.com/t/684911/careers/Java#3215133https://coderanch.com/t/683282/certification/Recognition-certs
In short, certification does not matter to everyone.
To paraphrase what
Roel De Nijs has stated before
The value of a certification is not the certification, but the path and preparation you took to get the certification.
Usually when you prepare for a certification exam you learn some (most?) of the the recommended practices and standards.
Not only that you learn why things are done the way that they are which could mean learning the history and backwards compatibles.
For instance Java is about 20 years old now and some people may say that it's lacking some features which are in other languages.
However most of the code that you write today in Java can easily be made to run on Java 1.4 or older systems and Java 1.4 came out in 2002 about 15 years ago.
The same cannot be said for some languages like Scala which run on the JVM as the Scala language has many more breaking changes in it then Java does.
Please note that some people/companies/human resources managers could view your certification as a negative especially if you don't have the experience to back it up.