Re: How to become a System Administrator?

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 04/06/04

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    Dave Hinz <davehinz@spamcop.net> wrote:
    > On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 14:48:15 +0200, Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:
    > > Dave Hinz <davehinz@spamcop.net> wrote:
    [..]
    > > You did take the exam? It' AFAIR about 1 hour multiple choice,
    > > you might be able to learn and then 5-6 hours of real world lab
    > > tests on a system.

    > Unfortunately, my employer at the time felt that the crisis-of-the-week
    > was more important (to them) than me finishing the class, so I was yanked
    > out of it to fix something that didn't matter days later, let alone now.
    > Not annoyed by that though, nope, not me.

    What a pity. If possible you should try to get another
    opportunity, I really enjoyed the week.

    > > Most people failed miserable, they didn't have the required experience.

    > Some very experienced folks failed miserable too, 10 years of SunOS/
    > Solaris doesn't help with redhat-specifics, for instance. I guess

    There's not much redhat specific knowledge needed, I had never
    used RH before the course (4 days + 1day exam). Albeit things
    might be complicated, if you are not used to work with multiple
    different *nix, including one or another Linux distro.

    > what I'm saying is it's a test that, in order to pass, you have to
    > be good at learning for and passing tests, but practical knowledge
    > counts much more.

    Didn't prepared myself or learned before the exam, IMHO any
    halfway experienced *nix admin with some Linux knowledge,
    preferable on a rpm based distro should be able to pass it.

    There's nothing in the exam, which couldn't be told day to day
    work for an admin. I agree that the "practical knowledge" is most
    important, if one can work out anything straight from a VT, there
    should be no problem passing it. Sadly one isn't allowed, due to
    several NDA he has to sign, to tell anything specific about the
    exam. Even if I don't believe those NDA are worth a straw, since
    they were not written in my native language, but then, I won't
    test it out.
    ;)

    Regards 

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