[CentOS] Re: Red Hat Cluster Suite

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 08:43 +1000, John Newbigin wrote:
> I spent last week doing RH300 and I am now a RHCE!

Congrats!  Glad you got to take the full RH300 track.
I sure wish I would have and I definitely will next time.
That exam will knock you on your butt if you don't prepare!

I got lucky on my RH302 (exam-only), I only got a 77% in a compulsory
RHCE subsection requirement that required a 70%, but 96.1% overall
(perfect 100% on everything else).  I came close to only getting the
RHCT because of that one compulsory RHCE subsection.  I know many others
that missed the RHCE, despite getting over a 90% total (and no section
less than an 85%).

My long story short, my new client (and rather short-lived, I left them
in the first 90 days citing, in writing, repeated contract violations
despite warnings) pushed me to get my MCSE and RHCE.  I did half my MCSE
(the MCSA) at lunch every day that week, in between working almost 50
hours.  I then drove 450 miles overnight Thursday to take my RHCE (exam-
only) on the brand new RHL9 exam on Friday.

And my new client wondered why I didn't have the cert when I came back
(duh, it takes a week to find out, at least when I took it!).

In retrospect, "cert-whoring" (what I called it) for a few clients was
the best thing for actually getting more work.  I hate certs in general,
but it's the stupid thing that self-markets (sadly enough).  Sigh.

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Bryan J. Smith                                     b.j.smith at ieee.org 
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