Bryan J. Smith wrote: > 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%). I got 100% on all sections :) They did work us hard, 9 till 6 Monday to Thursday and and then 5.5 hours of exams on Friday. I spent 3.5 hours in the exams. And they said I would have to wait till the following Wednesday for the results but I got it on the Saturday night. John. > > 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. > -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin