Todd Walton wrote:
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I would like to get a Linuxy certification, mostly for my own
edification, but also I hope that it will also positively affect (and
effect) my future employability. Anybody have any suggestions on
which certification a person with those wants would want? I'm
figuring RHCT by default, though I know that there exists an "LPI".
If I go for RHCT, would installing and using CentOS or WBEL help?
Which is <fuzzy word approaching> better? Or is Fedora good enough?
-todd
As near as I can tell, none of them, in and of themselves, have really
been that great as far as increasing your employability since the
dotcoms all dot crashed. Ever since slick Cisco sales reps convinced
purchasers and human resources people who had no business making
technology decisions to a) buy a lot of crap that was not needed and
really expensive or b) pay people tons of money without any idea of
whether they could really do the job other than a piece of paper that
said "certification" accross the top. That said, most of the people we
run into at NCAS who might be hiring for entry level positions are
partial to the hands-on certs, or those which have a strong hands-on
component to them. This rules out the pure written tests, LPI, Linux+,
SAIR. The RHCE can still get you an interview, but you'll need some job
experience to back it up once you get there. The RHCA is the next step
above RHCE and the RHCT is the one below. Personnally, if I was going to
spend hundreds of dollars to pay for a certification exam, as you must
to take the RHCT, RHCE, or RHCA, I'd go for the RHCE at least and
probably the RHCA. It may take a bit longer to get, but you'll have the
most difficult one out of the way, and you can get RHCE certification in
specific areas if you pass the RHCA endorsment exam for that area.
Just my two cents worth,
Robert Donovan
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