Re: OpenVMS Certifications

From: Peter Weaver (WeaverConsultingServices_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 01/08/04 

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:21:44 -0500

Fabio Cardoso wrote:
> How many guys here are certified ? Is is worthing ?
>
> I think I can get certified in the System Administration
(Basic)
> but the other Adv. Certification ... I doubt !
>
> a) I never worked/installed OpenVMS Clusters (just with
standalone
> servers);
>
> b) I never worked with HSG80;
>
> c) I never worked with Galaxy;
>
> d) I never worked with FastPath;
>
> e) I didn have the Internals Course (there isnt in
S.America)
>
> So it is becoming complicated to survive !
>
> Regards
>
> FC

The certification tests are really very easy, I did both the
Systems Administrator and Systems Engineer certifications, but
only because I was able to write the tests for free. At the
time I wrote the tests I did have HSG80 and Galaxy exposure
but I do not remember a lot of questions about either of
those. I did not think I could pass the network test since (at
the time) I had not used UCX or DECNet V and the questions
were very specific to both UCX and phase V. There were some
questions on Phase IV which I handled with no problems but few
TCP questions which were stack neutral, or questions like;

        Where is the local host table stored? (Choose the
correct answer for the stack you are used to working with)
        1) UCX: SYS$SYSTEM:HOSTS.
        2) UCX TCPIP$SYSTEM:HOSTS.
        3) UCX: TCPIP$SYSTEM:HOSTS.DAT
        4) TCPWare: SYS$SYSTEM:HOSTS.
        5) TCPWare: TCPWARE:HOSTS.
        6) TCPWare: TCPWARE:HOSTS.DAT
        7) Multinet: ...

which would have been a lot better for me. But somehow I got
lucky enough on the UCX and DECNET V questions that I passed.
As far as being worth it goes, I got a couple of nice pens and
a picture frame out of the deal. 

-- 
Peter Weaver
Weaver Consulting Services Inc.
Canadian VAR for CHARON-VAX
www.weaverconsulting.ca

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