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.