From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 23 12:25:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vortex.greycat.com (vortex.greycat.com [207.173.133.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 114661565D for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:24:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dann@greycat.com) Received: (qmail 436 invoked from network); 23 Jul 1999 19:22:10 -0000 Received: from bigphred.greycat.com (HELO greycat.com) (207.173.133.2) by vortex.greycat.com with SMTP; 23 Jul 1999 19:22:10 -0000 Message-ID: <3798C0FF.8B7C3294@greycat.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:22:39 -0700 From: Dann Lunsford Organization: You're kidding, right? X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Certification References: <002c01bed537$830d5840$87577ccf@isp1.foxlink.net> <199907231723.AA061670587@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> <7nadfe$env$1@twwells.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "T. William Wells" wrote: > > In article <199907231723.AA061670587@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu>, > Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > : >Are you guys by any chance going to create a FreeBSD certification program? > : >If yes, by when will it be available? If not, don't you think it is a good > : >idea > : >to start one? > : > : Why? > > Yeah. In my experience, most of those who have certificates get > them in the hopes that it'll substitute for actual hard-earned > experience. Furthermore, certification programs rarely test > anything more than the ability to answer questions correctly -- > this is not a skill that's terribly useful when it comes to > administering an operating system. MCSE == Must Consult Someone Experienced Says it all about 'certification", I think. There is a problem with this though: The suits (at least where I work) are so gung-ho about certs that there's now a 10-20% pay raise if you get just about any type of cert. Good Grief. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message