Re: [PLUG] Linux certification

[Jeff Dean <jdean@ieee.org>]

At 07:34 AM 11/14/00 +0000, you wrote:
> Is there anything else I should be aware of reguarding these two different
> certification groups?  Has anyone had any positive or negative experience
> with these groups that could be helpful with this decision?  Also, I'm not
> yet ruling out RHCE testing, but that's contingent on whether or not we can
> be certified with RedHat as one of their testing facilities and how long the
> process would take.  Since we are already familiar with Prometric and
> currently utilize several of their certification exams, Sair does come out on
> top currently, whereas with RedHat or LPI we would need to become an
> authorized testing center (does RedHat authorize testing centers?).

This is entirely subjective on my part, but having passed the RHCE, LPIC-1, 
and a single exam from Sair, I feel confident in saying that the quality of 
the Sair exam I took was the lowest of the three.  As I reported on 
O'Reillynet, I found a number of ambiguous questions and language problems.

As for getting to the RHCE on site, it's probably not worth the 
struggle.  You'd need to equip a training room and get certified 
trainers.  While I'm not privy to Red Hat's requirements on the hardware 
and administration, it's probably somewhat complicated.

jd




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