Re: Redhat certification

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup linux.redhat, in article
<3a15a$487e837e$d1d97aaa$6548@xxxxxxxxx>, Johnny Rebel wrote:

vaib wrote:

i am a linux newbie and i've started out with redhat (RHEL 5) .
Eventually , i'd like to go for linux certification in redhat .

Because?

Right now i am studying Introduction to Linux of the Linux
Documentation Process . am i on the right path ??

Using books from the LDP? Yes, that's a very good learning source,
but you've also got to be _using_ the O/S. Nothing beats experience.

To be Devils advocate, if you are new, why do you want certification?
Certifications without experience pretty much does nothing for you job
wise. I personally have the experience and did a few certs (not the
RHCE) to fill in the blanks on the CV.

Often, this is a waste of time and money. _MANY_ (but not all[1])
certifications teach you how to memorize some things that the testing
service will be asking about - which may or may not have any real
meaning in the actual job. Sometimes, the material is not only
useless - it may also be absolutely wrong.

I am not even certain it would help me in a job respect since most
people wised up with the flood of MCSE's years ago.... I have seen
being an MCSE as a requirement for Helpdesks now.

If they're asking for an MCSE for a hell-desk, run away and hide. You
don't want to be working there, and the person who set that requirement
is unlikely to be anything except a hindrance to your career.

Certifications may get you past the silly guardians from HR who think
that such documents are an indication of skills. We had a problem with
a new-hire in Human Resources who added two windoze experience terms
and a MS certification requirement to two job requisitions we had
submitted. She thought she was helping us - till we pointed out that
we don't use windoze in the company. She didn't last long.

If you want to learn Linux, skip the certs and put the $$$ towards a
few cheap systems - you will learn more, and get some experience.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Read what he said. Unless you are sure that the job requires the GUI
admin experience, learn the commands that actually do the job. Other
distributions don't use the Red Hat specific tools, nor do the various
versions of UNIX. But if you know how to get information from (for
example) 'ps aux' or 'netstat -antu' you'll be a lot more desirable
and will get a better job. (The "Advanced Bash Scripting" guide from
the LDP is _very_ useful.)

Old guy

[1] RH and LPI _may_ be useful to some employers _if_ they know about
them - not all do.
.

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