Gents,

This is Vishal, I work as Storage Engineer right now, and have been in contact with linux for more than 10 years but never worked on it seriously to get a certification. now i am planning to take a dive in huge world of linux and networking. it will be enthralling journey to the least that i know. looking forward to learn from the best.

Regard,

V

Welcome to the forums!

I'd get more involved with Linux and work with it a bit before investing in certification. That's just me.

thanks for your time. i was planning to get a VM running setup a working lab on my laptop.
I am aware of parts of functionalities in linux like, file system, threading, lvm and difference between file systems ( all that concerned with Storage team). but i have still lot to learn before i seat for exam.

do you know a thread here which helps get me understand what is skeleton of things i need to learn before i can claim i am ready for linux certification?

Regards,
V

Yes, Linux - Certification

There is no single thread where you will get what you need. If your only goal is to get a paper 'certification', it's going to be meaningless. There are THOUSANDS of things you need to know to be a systems administrator. Can you point us to the 'thread' where you got your knowledge to be a storage engineer??? Where that 10 years experience is written up?? This is not different.

LEARN Linux FIRST. Install it...configure it, troubleshoot, and UNDERSTAND how things work. A 'certification' is pointless without the in-depth knowledge behind it.

i think i gave wrong impression here. i am currently working in Storage Field. i am not sure about other places but at my workplace System Admin have problem understanding about performances when it comes to SAN. to facilitate between OS admins with SAN admins i have read up few things on linux side.

and that's how i got introduced to linux world. but i found it quite impressive with last few years development and would like to further my knowledge to have expert level knowledge. also i understand that unless you are confident on opening the hood and look the machine underneath its no useful to get a certification. i see certification as guiding path to learn linux in industry accepted methods. these methods with why, how, where questions will help me get under the hood.

Hope this helps to clear my POV.

Welcome to the forum.

No, a certification is not a 'guiding path'...it is something saying you have already been DOWN that path, and know the route. This is much the same thing as saying "I need to get a college diploma, so I can then know what I need to learn." You learn FIRST, THEN get the certification that tells people you have the knowledge, not the other way around.

You said you've worked in the storage field for ten years, then asked for 'a thread' that will tell you everything you need to know to get a Linux certification. So...can you sum up EVERYTHING you need to know to do YOUR job in a single place? Or did you gather that knowledge over the course of years? Again, this is no different.

Hi,

Vishal is new and this forum is all about introductions. In post #4 I offered a link to a forum for Linux Certifications, where we do have one. Vishal having misspoken by writing "thread" versus "forum" isn't so huge of a deal.

As far as certification goes, besides the bias on many person's parts that it is not all it is cracked up to be, you can research the costs and the benefits, plus ask additional questions about it in the certification forum. Best of luck, and do not overlook the 10 years of Linux knowledge you already have acquired.

Hello and welcome to the forum

Just so that you're aware, we have some ladies here, too.

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