On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:30:19 -0500, Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> wrote: > As I alluded to above, IMHO, certifications tend to be living in the > past. Things change so fast in our industry that by the time a > certification qual is developed and made available, and people take it, > things are already old and out of date.
While this is true, this is not why I find certs to be useless. I think they are useless because they've only tested you on (a subset of) how things are *supposed to* work. But if things worked how they are supposed to, we wouldn't need half these sysadmins. What you really need is a lot of experience getting your hands dirty and yelling at the computer. Troubleshooting skills and a good feeling for how the entire situation should "look" and a feeling for what areas to start investigating when they "look" wrong. Like how an experienced programmer can usually tell a bug is a memory leak (and in what subsystem, based on the overall logic design) or race condition or whatever without even looking at the code. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
