Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:49:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: S K I N N E R <skinner@skinner.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redhat Certified Engineer Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9904161648260.7564-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904161553260.8705-100000@confusion.skinner.org>
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As a Cisco employee, I know how hard the CCIE can be. I wasn't suggesting
we do something as intensive as the CCIE...maybe something more like CNE
or CNA.
Joe Clarke
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, S K I N N E R wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote:
>
> :)All of these are big reasons why courses are so high now-a-days.
> :)
> :)I understand that Cisco Certified people have to go to one of three places
> :)in the country to finish their lab requirement, and that's just speaks to
> :)how hard it is to coordinate such an effort.
> :)
> :)In other words: For this to work, we would have to have standardized tests
> :)and corporate support, as well as a network of (qualified!) instructors.
> :)
>
> The cisco cert CCIE is as you state with the lab and is very
> hard and requires a more skilled person to pass.. There are
> also other levels, such as the CCNA which is lower but still
> valuable and is based on the 608 exam.
>
> Sun cert is just a basic multiple choice exam and isnt that
> diffucult for your more inapt users. It is offerd at many
> places over the us. I think, as I have not seen, Red Hat
> would be doing the same as Sun has done.
>
> Granted it is not the most affective way of weeding out
> professionals vs non-prof users. But it does help some and
> it also show that the person is more "serious" about thier
> efforst put into the use of the os.
>
> The major effort would be in the creation of the exam
> methods and the levels of the exams (as you stated admin,
> security) However the need to create "course" material is
> only nessary if you want to teach the class's. You can still
> have the certification and just allow the people to train
> and learn on thier own. Which in a way weeds out the people
> who just took the class's to know how to pass the os exam.
> (like some mcse's out there.)
>
>
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