On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Brodie, Kent wrote: > An observation: I took the RHCE, and thought it was awesome - as in, > intense. > > Example1: We were given a huge lists of tasks to set up for a new > system/server. On a normal business day, I would expect to see that > list, and tell the user, "I'll have this by sometime tomorrow". The > RHCE list for the new setup, however, was as extensive, but you only > were given something like 90 minutes. > > Example2: We were given another system that was broken. VERY broken. > The room was filled with sysadmins. By the end of the timeframe, half > of the room still had not gotten their boxes to run. > > I think out of 11 of us, only 6 passed [including me]. The instructor > said something before the test that stuck with me, it was something > along the lines of "During the test, you'll have full access to the > documentation set(s) as well as any of the man pages for RedHat. But, > I'll give you a clue- if you need to check the documentation often, > you'll never have enough time to complete the test and pass... you > just need to KNOW this stuff."
unless this stuff is really stuff that you would need day in and day out, I think this is the wrong priority. I haven't gone through this, but I would also be concerned if this was designed to primarily use the redhat config GUI. I've known quite a few people who passed this sort of test (or would have come close), but who were completely helpless if they didn't have access to the GUI, and correspondingly, these same people were helpless a couple of years later when a new release changed the GUI significantly. I'd much prefer someone who understood *nix and had to find/lookup where the config file is on distro X the first few times over someone who knows one distro inside and out, but can't get started on another one. the first type of person will probably come up to speed very quickly as they work with a new distro, the second type may never pick it up. David Lang _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
