Hello LQ,

I am interacting with a linux system 24/7 in this job just started and I would like to be more efficient in it, and guaranty my place in the company.
for that, I got advised to get a system admin. certification.
Can you redirect me toward a serious online classes (From Beginner to experienced classes)
I found some classes with the Linux Fondation, but I want get advices from the LQ people first

There is a "Certification" forum here, but please search first. This has been asked and answered MANY times here thus far. But I can tell you some things:

• You cannot "guarantee" your place in a company, ever, unless you own it. There is no magic piece of paper/degree/certification that will guarantee you keep your job.
• You can search for your own online courses; we do not know your budget, nor do we particularly want to do Google searches for you, to find you classes.
• Any 'certification' you get is, for the most part, fairly meaningless. While it **MIGHT** get your foot in the door in some places, it is meaningless in others.

A brief look through the forums here will show you why my last point is valid. There are literally THOUSANDS of threads on this site from years past to the present, with people looking for answers to the tests, exam dumps, etc., etc. All wanting to get 'certs', and none of them will have the actual skills and knowledge to back it up.

Want to better do your job? Learn. Take initiative where you are, volunteer to do things, document your existing systems, and learn them backwards and forwards. THAT will make you valuable to your company, and give you the knowledge and experience you're looking for. Load Linux at your house, use it daily. Write scripts to solve problems/desires that YOU have. Configure services, and learn how to troubleshoot. Any certification you take will be a breeze, since you'll just be doing what you've done a hundred times before.

Hi bozmin,

Welcome!

Linux certs are like merit badges. They mean something to the person who earned them, but not a lot to anyone else. I mean, you'll learn something about Linux, just not how to actually use Linux. There's a ton of practice exams online. Just try a few.

Hi, thank you for the answers
I agree with the fact that the certifications are not so important comparing to the knowledge.
Unfortunately, where I am from, they are the key for that success.
I don’t want to spend all that money in it, but I will have to .
Thank you

We honestly don't care where you're from. If you want to be yet another person with 'many certs' and no knowledge, and you actually **BELIEVE** that will get you success, you are delusional. Because how many people (wherever it is you're from) with 'many certs' are looking for jobs? The reason they're looking, is because they DO NOT HAVE KNOWLEDGE OR SKILLS, and at their first mistake, they're thrown out, to be replaced by someone else with a meaningless certification. They are 100% replaceable, because they have no skills.

Want real success? Learn and work for it. Otherwise, please find another line of work...there are far too many people with 'certifications', who make life difficult for everyone else who HAS the skills.

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The cert organizations try to sell naive would-be admins in poorer areas, where schools are more scarce, on the fact that they can get hired if they have certs. But this is purely hype spread by the cert organizations. Although, a cert can be a plus in certain instances.

In some places, yes. In some areas, if you have this 'certification', you can get a job (and they're required). That's why all the exam dumps, practice tests, and websites exist, so folks don't have to actually learn, but can cheat their way to a 'certification'.

Which is exactly why I put ZERO stock in such things. I'd rather hire someone who says "Well, I don't know, but I'd start looking xxx, yyy....", because that indicates they can think and learn. I've said it before, but I ran across one guy from a 'quality outsourcing company', who had several certs...and didn't know how to add a user to a system.