I'm curious. When will the examination cover other architectures such
as POWER/PowerPC, SPARC, and ARM?
Having an exam for such architectures would get the BSDs recognition
as a reliable system with the Power group. Support for ARM in the exam
could increase the use of the BSDs in embedded devices; and, the same
is also true for certain Power architectures.
I am aware that the standard architecture being used is i386 and
amd64. I am also aware that development is taking place on the
architectures mentioned.
On 6/11/12, Dru Lavigne dru.lavi...@att.net wrote:
Hello,
I'm currently planning on taking the BSD Association
certification, as described here. (http://www.bsdcertification.org/)
Although I am primarily doing so for personal, rather than
economic reasons, I did want to ask whether or not it
possibly *would* add to a resume, in the opinions of people
here. As much as I've loved using FreeBSD myself, I've
been looking for trend and market share numbers on the Web
recently, and what I've found has been fairly depressing;
the indication usually seems to be a gradual, long term
decline of the three major BSDs, with virtually all UNIX
market share moving in the direction of Debian Linux.
With that said, I've also noticed that FreeBSD is still
visible on Netcraft's list of the most reliable ISPs.
I consider this tragic, because after close to 15 years of
at least intermittent use of both systems, I have developed
a belief that FreeBSD is vastly technically superior to any
form of Linux that I have used, including Debian.
So I wanted to ask; how possible is it still, to become
gainfully employed as a BSD administrator? Once I have
the BSD certification, will it be necessary to concede to
reality, and also seek certification in Linux as well?
I have long considered that idea, but the problem is that
Linux training generally costs a minimum of $2,000, and I do
not have that type of money available.
Disclaimer: I'm the current chair of the BSD certification group (BSDCG).
The BSDCG gets requests quite often from employers who are looking for
admins with BSD skills. We refer them to our BSDA certified linked in group
as its members are all BSDA certified. There is also a linkedin group for
those interested in BSD certification which is a good resource for
networking with other admins who are interested in BSD.
We have also received several reports back from certificants indicating that
the reason why they were hired over someone else was because they were BSDA
certified.
I wrote an article for the February issue of BSD Mag (available for free
download from bsdmag.org) that describes why one would want to be BSD
certified, even if not motivated by economic reasons or even if one is
already happily employed.
Bottom line, if you're interested in system administration, the more
Unix-like skills that you can get, the better. A Linux certification will
only provide a subset of these skills. Having both Linux and BSD
certification provides a fuller skillset.
Cheers,
Dru
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