RHCE is usually the "baseline", RHCSA is a bit junior cert.
2013/6/5 Justin Edmands shockwavecs@gmail.com
On Jun 5, 2013, at 5:32 AM, Micky mickylmartin@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org
wrote:
On 06/02/2013 11:39 AM, Micky wrote:
Unless you really wanna spend money on it, I would say that certification is just a piece of paper. Ah discard that, in this case, it is not even a piece of paper since you don't get one after passing!
Have been there, seen the guys who knew more than CEs or SAs.
Just get the books, read them, study the docs and put it to use!
This is just not true. Most companies who actually hire workers and pay salaries want certified people.
Yes it is not unless you are Judith Shine or Charley Babbage. Have you managed to find a dream job like that? People in the HR don't know the shit about most certifications. They treat all cattle the same!
One can certainly get a job without a certification and it does not mean that the person who has a certification is the best thing since sliced bread ... however, it certainly proves that the person with the certification has a certain set of minimal qualifications.
That is also not true. I see the Red Hat certification dogma following M$ track lately. If you claim that you certainly haven't been to the *real* market outside! If you have been to one, recently, you would know that no matter what certification you get, you'll mostly end up to the same line in the chain of food. The probability of exceptions are one a hundred thousand!
In other words, it does not raise the ceiling (or high water mark or maximum) for knowledge level, but it certainly raises the floor (or low water mark or minimum) knowledge that you know the person has.
That can also be attained by just reading books, docs and most of all, its application.
It also shows that they are at least a little concerned about what they look like professionally.
Yea yea yea, I don't want to talk about my certifications.
In my experience, people who complain about how little certifications mean don't have any and are too lazy to care about getting any ... your mileage may vary.
In my opinion, the people pushing you towards a certification have either something to gain from it, affiliated with the grand scheme of corporate profits somehow, are rich or they have simply have been sadly out-of-the-loop from real world!
Although ignorance is a bliss but certifications don't really matter, knowledge does!
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A lot easier to justify paying you more money than others if you have a certification to show your level of expertise. It's also a way to have the younger guys to stack up against the older guys. So maybe that's the metric that they are looking for. I am young but was hired based on experience. I think the certs gave some credibility based on the time that I received the cert. A "senior" Linux admin is at least 5 years in some jobs. So having my cert dated back far enough is some form of proof that I have been into it that long.
That being said if you need to take a class to barely get the RHCSA.... Then you probably shouldn't be a systems administrator...yet. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos