On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:56, Rich Burroughs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Some of you may remember me, I used to be pretty active in the group > years ago :) > > I've been off in the Solaris world for the last few years but I'm > interested in working with Linux again more. I was thinking about > pursuing a certification and I wondered what recommendations people > have about that. > > I passed the first LPI test years ago, I'm sure it's no longer valid. > But back in the day it seemed like LPI or Redhat certification were > the main choices. > > I'd appreciate any feedback on this, but if all you have to say is > that certifications are worthless in general you can probably save > your breath :) Part of the idea is for me to dig back into Linux, and > I think it could be useful from that perspective, regardless of how it > might help with employment.
My feeling is that the redhat certification is pretty useless as an educational experience. I was made to take the "pre-qualification" test (what they have online) for a job application (I wasn't challenged by it) and there were bugs in 2 of the questions (one with 2 correct answers and one with an answer that was clearly included by accident). When I tried to report the bugs to RH they were unable/unwilling to even direct my report to the right place, though they were happy to call me for months to try to sell me on paying them to take a test and get certified "for real". Whether it's useful on a resume or not I couldn't say. As an occasional hiring manager, I'm far more interested in what you know than what pieces of paper you have (or, what you got out of achieving the certification *other than the piece of paper*). I guess the useful information I can say is go check out the test they have online (https://www.redhat.com/wapps/assessment/tx/begin?asmt=sysadmin) and see what you're missing (i learned that i hadn't used their new partitioner, so i went and spun up a VM and did a few test installs and then went back and aced the only part i hadn't the first time through). _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
