Most of these types of exams you'll pass if you have some experience. I'd also recommend checking out BrainBuzz (or similar (I did work for brainbuzz, so I know them)) so that you know what will actually be on the exam.
I'm certainly in favor of the CompTIA over the RHCE, but I'm not too sure about the rest of the world. With some of these exams, the course means nothing. Microsoft's MCSE and Novell's CNE are the ones I know best. You will not pass their exams based solely on what is taught in the book and class. You can pass some of the useless exams (MS Desktop/Server OS or Novell's CNA comes to mind), but you won't pass the serious ones without experience or a fair bit of time using either sample exams or on a braindump site (like brainbuzz). If you have either the experience or the sample exams/braindumps, you'd pass them without the courses. My 2cents. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Bruseker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 3:20 PM Subject: [clug-talk] Linux+ certification - is it worth anything? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone done Linux+? Is it worth it? The writeup on comptia.org makes it sound like stuff I do everyday. Doesn't seem that hard. I hope that doesn't insult anyone - maybe I'm just being cavalier, but based on what I read it seems pretty easy (and, at least for me, not worth taking a class for - I'd skip right to the exam if they'd let me - I've been doing what they list there for 10 years now, I think I've got it down). A+ looks pretty easy too (again, from what I read on their site). It's not worth it to me to spend several grand on the courses, but a few hundred on just the exams just to collect a letter or two to add after my name would be fun and give me a little bragging clout around the office. ;-) Thoughts? Ian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/2O3BSiY+RXI7JS4RAs7OAJ9MOi3e1sE99G6dBO2jehrruP5gUQCgth6I S/QTAU5c2rjuwYDtB9h6ssY= =gdy6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
