Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:43:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Lanny Baron <lnb@freedom.cybertouch.org> To: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: Mike Avery <mavery@mail.otherwhen.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Certification...again Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907121737320.91731-100000@freedom.cybertouch.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.990712112816.17050A-100000@fish.hooked.net>
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In no way was I referring to TekMetrics. I was referring to FreeBSD itself offering the certification and the course that would lead up to it (if you needed the background material). I still hope that the FreeBSD Project will seriously consider a REAL certification that is not easy to get, requires sufficient knowledge on running the system, complete networking (deep level of TCP/IP), mail for an organization...etc... This could also lead to different levels of Certs. depending on what route you take. Lanny On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Mike Avery wrote: > Lots of anti-certification people are motivated by the sour-grapes > syndrome... "I can't get it, therefore it must not be any good". And > many people overlook what the certifications were intended to do. Not hardly, TekMetrics offers free certification; try it out (www.tekmetrics.com). It's a fucking joke. Not only does their whole registration process fail to work properly (hey, I got a transcript id of 0; which is apparently invalid :) ), but their tests are a joke. For the hell of it, I took the OOP/C++ and Linux Administration tests. I know less about the anal retentive univ. level C++ "science of desiging a program" than I do about Linux; so it's easier for me to grab questions about the Linux test and say they were stupid. But considering that they had a handful of questions (out of 65) that related purely to C, I was disappointed. The Linux Administration test was far worse. It covered a lot of topics most, if not all, garden variety admins would never need to know (namely X) in depth; and had a single question pertaining to Apache, one to Samba, and two about filesystem names. The crowning blow was the last question, which asked about the difference between Gnome and KDE. I haven't taken any pay certifications (well, gosh, on a student's budget that comes as no suprise to me). But, I figure, the comercial ones can't be that much more useful; and if your employer/employer-to-be really wants you to be certified, they might even offer to pay the costs related with getting you certified. Also, I sincerely hope that Tekmetrics never, ever, creates a FreeBSD certification test, it would only be comparable to a black eye. - alex You better believe that marijuana can cause castration. Just suppose your girlfriend gets the munchies! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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