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A reader writes: "Icrontic.com has a new article up called 'All You Need To know About IT Certifications.' It talks about several of the major Microsoft certifications, and of course, a few of the Linux certs, including Linux+ and RHCE. "
Why not do both? If you have some free time,go to your public library and get one of those exam guides and cram your ass off and then go take the test. If you test well, which most computer geeks do, then the tests are actually pretty easy.
_I_ wouldn't hire someone just because they had a cert, but the typical logic is like this: Say you have two exact candidates, but one has certification and one doesn't. Which one would you pick? Now, in the real world it probably matters a whole lot more if you have a personality or a lack of body odor when you want to get a job. but having a cert. isn't a hindrance, and not having a cert. can make you _appear_ less qualified. The truth, however, is that there is NO SUBSTITUTE for hands-on experience. If you wanna learn how to build a computer, take yours apart and put it back together again, don't read some silly book about it.
I took over my at job from an MCSE, and let me tell you the guy obviuosly didn't know the first thing about how to run a Windows network. I am not an MCSE, and I don't really want to be, but while I was out of work I got some MS certs to keep my skillz. (By the way, Skillz in Windows means notepad.exe, regedt32, and Windows-E to open up Explorer. And the LMHOSTS file, if you dare.)
By the way, homeschooling is a nice idea for little kids, but you should try going to a normal high school like the rest of us did. Sure the education sucks, but the whole point of high school is skipping class, learning how to meet girls, and smoking pot. It's not like you'll ever use that class in Ancient and Medieval History once you're a grown-up. Tell your parents that Slashdot told you to go to the public school or you might not ever get laid until you are 30, and then you will marry her because you are so grateful, just like CmdrTaco.
(I only wrote that last part because you set up some unix servers for your friends. methinks they are not girls. by the way if you're gay then get a mac because that is the gay computer of choice.)
Poor kid. Hope you're reading at -1 because that's where this comment is gonna end up.
This one's easily answered. This "article" really isn't an article -- unless I'm seriously missing something, it's an ad for their own cert programs. Since they don't offer Oracle certs, they put them way at the end in the "other" category. This is pure ad copy.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Well, of course, I picked both. I'm running Apache on Windows 2000 Pro right now, and IIS also comes as an optional add-on.
Windows 2000 pro is limited to 10 incoming TCP/IP connections, so is hardly suitable for a public web server. This is a limitation (albeit artificial) of the operating system, and not of any web server that it may be running.
There are perhaps a few thousand people in the world who can credibly claim to be expert in the disciplines of computer security.
Almost nobody in the latter category is a member of the former.
Security certification is a bad idea.