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Old 07-02-2011, 10:58 AM   #1
aarsh
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Linux Certification Validity


Hello all Gurus !
I just want to know, the recommended certification for job point of view , recommended certification for knowledge point of view and THE VALIDITY OF ALL available Linux Certifications...
 
Old 07-02-2011, 11:15 AM   #2
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What do you mean by "validity"?. There are no official certifications required for the profession of being a sysadmin. You don't need to pass a bar exam or anything, and all the commercial certifications are inevitably underpinned by a commercial desire to propagate the image of their product. So it's all very subjective as to what someone takes your certification to be worth. That said it's hard to take a cert like an RHCE and not have a reasonable idea of the level that that candidate is at. I've met some pretty useless RHCE's at the same time... and experience is often worth a lot more than a cert. Like driving. Passing a driving test doesn't mean you're a good driver, just that you got some ticks in boxes. It's the next 5 / 10 / 20 years that make you a good or bad driver.
 
Old 07-02-2011, 11:16 AM   #3
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This is like a windows vas. Linux debate...no clear answer. Different companies hold different values to different certs. Look @ whats asked in your line of career path and work towards that. Different strokes for different folks leaves the blind wanting more pokes
 
Old 07-04-2011, 10:40 PM   #4
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Both the answers are pretty good and thanks to acid_kewpie & raevin for your concern.

But in my case I am an alien , i.e. moving to a different country for the first time and I've just completed my graduation in Computer Engg. And so I thought the certification might help me in getting the job in field of my interst interest (Linux).

And as per my thinking the vendor specific certificate would help me wherever I go, and so I should go for LPIC 1,2,3.

Am I right ? ? ?
 
Old 07-05-2011, 10:20 AM   #5
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And as per my thinking the vendor specific certificate would help me wherever I go, and so I should go for LPIC 1,2,3.

Am I right ? ? ?
I'm not sure what you mean by this statement. If you're looking for a "vendor specific" certificate, options are available from Red Hat and Novell.

While LPIC is an excellent program, the LPIC certificates are explicitly "vendor neutral". For example, the LPIC 1 exams include topics associated with both the rpm and the dpkg commands for package management -- so you'd need to work from both a Red Hat (SUSE) and a Debian (Ubuntu) distribution to study for that exam.
 
  


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