[geeks] The old certification debate....

[hike]

On Jan 18, 2008 11:57 AM, Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com> wrote:

> Mr Bill wrote:
> > I'm RHCE-certified for RHEL3, got it in '04.  I took the one-week
> > course;
> > four days of refresher and one day of testing.  Even though I'm
> > primarily a
> > Solaris person that just dabbled in RH before then, I managed to
> > pass with
> > a 97%.
>
> That sounds do-able. I may be able to go for a job by saying I'd do
> that w/in 3 or 6 mos. of employment.
>
> > From what I've heard, the SELinux stuff makes the RHEL4/RHEL5 tests
> > a bit
> > more difficult, but I'm still planning on upgrading my
> > certification this
> > year.
>
> Gotcha. I get to go study and RTFM. If I can pass the CISSP and my
> Private Pilot Written exam I should be able to nip this one (I hope.)
>
> -Jon
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RHCT & RHCE are performance based tests.
you have to do things so you need experience as well as memory.
with 10 years of solaris admin experience and some red hat (3&4) in college
and some RHEL setup at work and "playing around" with RHEL at home, i was
able to pass the RHCT after the 4-day course and 1 day test.
it was not easy.
(i am hearing impaired and the class was difficult to hear.  i am a slow
reader, a slow typist, a slow hearer.)

you can create an account on RHEL and download the current RHEL OS (v5).
do that and practice, practice, practice.
the test is harder than what i have run into in true-life.
Christopher Negus' "Red Hat Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise LInux
<current_version> Bible" is a good book to go over (cheap on amazon and
better than the o'reilly books at this level).

RHEL is a differenct mindset.
Lots of what i can "windows style" commands: "--" real (non-crypt) words,
etc.

know the system-config-* commands!

the RHCT will get people to talk to you; the RHCE is get you in the door!