Hey, Along the same lines, what is the consensus of CCNA certification?
Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, December 11, 2003 3:59 pm Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Linux+ certification - is it worth anything? > 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 > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
