I've been thinking about certifications lately I think I've distilled it to a few basic principles.
1. Only go for certifications that you know will be respected by your peers and employers. 2. Only go for certifications that you know are both difficult and worthwhile. Honestly, CCIE, RHCE, and CISSP. Thats it. Everything else is just a waste of time. The CCIE and RHCE are both demonstrative. You do it live. The CISSP is a mile wide and an inch deep, and I think it's a great baseline for sysadmin and engineers, I am still dubious on its (or any other) Security certification offering an tangible value to employment. Now, to achieve said certifications; get on their tracks, little known that the CCIE requires no prerequisites. But I would recommend CCNA, CCNP. It will give you a foundation if you lack it. But always make the goal the CCIE. Same for the RHCE, take the RHSA first. Stay away from comptia at all costs, I recommend taking an A+ only as My First Certification. It comes down to time and attention. You could be maintaining 5 or 6 entry level certs for your career or maintain 2 that have an industry wide recognition as senior level and generally rare. The CISSP has no retesting requirements, just a maintenance fee and continuing education requirements. On Monday, June 3, 2013, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > LOPSA folks, > > $WORK has decided to load me up with education... that is, they want to > pay for and support me through some certifications. I've already got a Unix > System Administration cert, based on classwork at the extension center of > the local state university, but they'd like to get me through something a > bit more industry-recognized. > > Currently, the LPIC-1 is on the table, as well as Security+, and there's a > possibility to go toward a CISSP later on. In general I'm skeptical of > CompTIA certs like Security+, but that's partly because I've got an A+ from > about 6 years ago that felt like a waste of time. > > A few questions: > 1) Are the LPIC certs getting more industry recognition? They seem to be > good, but they were last updated in 2009. > 2) How does the LPIC series compare to the Red Hat certs, in terms of > skill coverage and industry acceptance? > 3) Does anybody know anything about the specialized LPIC Level 3 "senior" > certs? In particular, the Security-focused one (LPIC-303)? It seems their > higher-level stuff hasn't been updated for several years, either, and that > advanced stuff seems likely to get out-of-date more quickly. > > Thanks for any help you can provide! > > -- > Brad Beyenhof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://augmentedfourth.com > No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. > ~ Niels Bohr > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- Joseph A Kern [email protected]
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