To Stephen, I don't see that the certification as worthless just because you could pass it using existing knowledge. The RHCE doesn't certify that you can take the distro apart and put it back together, it certifies that your knowledge is such that you are capable of fixing the most common problems that are encountered. Your being able to pass it without distro-specific knowledge is more a compliment to your skill set than a implication of the RHCE's scope.
--Matt On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Stephen Potter <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/28/2010 10:23 PM, Jonathan B Bayer wrote: >> Hello Kent, >> >> I had the same experience. I got my RHCE back in 2002. My pager kept >> going off during the test, I had to keep going outside to deal with >> it. The examiner told me that I had no chance, then had to eat his >> words when I got a 96 on the test. > > I have a similar situation, and got a bad taste of the RHCE due to it. > Back around the same time, I got my RHCE. I had almost no professional > experience with Linux, I was mostly a Solaris guy with some HPUX, Irix, > and (minor) AIX. I took the one week boot camp course, and actually > spent a fair amount of time out of the classes dealing with work situations. > > When it came time to take the exam, I found I could do almost everything > simply by knowing "redhat-config-*" and relying on my historic UNIX > knowledge. I passed with a 100% and a 98% on the two parts. I decided > at that point that the RHCE was essentially worthless, because I would > not have wanted to try and work on RH boxes at that point. > > -spp > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process. _______________________________________________ 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/
