Arun Khan wrote: > On Monday 18 Aug 2008, Amit Joshi wrote: > >> Hi, >> I have completed my engineering and seriously looking at System >> Administration as a career option. Can you tell me about the career >> prospects? Also, I am thinking about taking the RHCE exam. I am not >> able to spot much training institutes in Mumbai, CMS Computer >> Institute and Gates Training being the only ones I have been able to >> come up with. Can you please comment on the teaching quality of these >> computer institutes and such stuff? >> Looking forward to your replies. >> > > Over the last year, I have interviewed several candidates from the > various Mumbai training institutes conducting RHCE curriculum; not a > single candidate scored more than 25% in a 40 question quiz, based on > the RH033 book, that I conducted. > > IMO, you would be better off buying some decent hardware, install CentOS > (equiv. to RHEL), experiment with virtualization (to simulate multiple > systems) and learn the RHCE curriculum on your own. > > Doing an RHEL course provides an overall understanding of OSs, networking, storage media etc. and for someone who wants to learn all this in a limited span of time, it is very beneficial. The third semester (module 3, servers) is the important one and that is where a good institute and proper faculty will make the difference. At the institute where I did the course, the 3 months course got dragged to 9 months. We were migrating from one room to another and almost every time we had to load the OS over the last batch's other OS installation. The first 2 modules were very nicely explained with good practical time. The last module was taken in short time by another faculty and it was more of a demo where more than 15 people jostled to view a single monitor where sever setup was demonstrated. The tall ones had to stand behind all the shorter ones and that made the screen text hardly visible.
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