>From my experience if you want to work with hardware repairs and the like A+ is a necessary evil. Most places though will actually help pay for it so they don't look for it up front as much. My dad's old work required it after 6 months working for them, if you hadn't passed it by then you could not get any raises. They would pay for the first time through though.
-Richard -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Soren Harward Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 8:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [uug] Certifications: Good, or a bunch of hooey? On Mon 17 Mar 2003 at 15:58:23, Jacob Albretsen said: > Basically it appears to be "work on your > own" then come ask questions and take the test and if you pass, boom, you're > certified. I won't make any comments about certifications themselves and their helpfulness, (because I haven't been in any fields where anyone paid any attention to them whatsoever) but I will say that the best way to study for one is to get hold of the hardware/software you're being tested on, work through any test problems or cases that the book has you do, and then try to push the limits by making it do the craziest stuff you can come up with. For instance, if you're being tested on MySQL, don't just see if you can get the mysql client to work, and get it to work with PHP, but see if you can get it to connect to a Windows box via ODBC and run IIS or PWS using it. Experimenting and creating/solving your own problems will teach you faster than anything else. -- Soren Harward [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
