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Red Hat Announces Certified Architect Curriculum

Posted by michael on from the certs-worth-the-paper-they're-printed-on dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Red Hat announced a new advanced certification today, Red Hat Certified Architect. One training expert, however, cautions that Red Hat certifications can lock administrators in to Red Hat-specific skills."

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  1. Question 1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You've installed Fedora and it erased your Windows partition. What do you do?

    1. Re:Question 1 by JustNiz · · Score: 5, Funny

      Celebrate that Fedora automatically detected and patched a security hole.

    2. Re:Question 1 by TheRaven64 · · Score: 1, Funny
      Repair the partition table by generating the C/H/S values from the LBA, delete the Fedora partition and install FreeBSD.

      Do I win a cookie?

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  2. I'm already locked... by KrisCowboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...into red-hat specific linux administration. Been using it for 2 years now...all the way from 7.2 to FC 2. Tried to install Debian Woody a few weeks ago, no success. Couldn't even figure out what's going on. So guys, forget RedHat. You won't be needing any certification to work with it.

  3. Re:Certified Architect... by codesurfer · · Score: 3, Funny

    MSCE used to sound more official, before they started churning them out like McNuggets.

  4. Why "Architect"? by mattkime · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why is the word "Architect" used to describe someone with an advanced proficiency with RedHat?

    Do you build structures out of RedHat?

    Is your certification revoked if any of your projects crash ever?

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    1. Re:Why "Architect"? by Abalamahalamatandra · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hey, my official title is "Solution Architect", you insensitive clod!

      Which means I'm a consultant who has to have a cool-sounding title to command a higher hourly rate.

  5. locked into Red-hat specific tools by daveb · · Score: 5, Funny
    That is so true. If you study to the level of RHCE (or whatever) you can't ever transfer your skills to anything else. In fact, you sign in blood not to ever touch a Gentoo system and working with Suse is likely to land you a jail term (not much of a risk if you take the optional lobotomy provided at the exam center)

    Get real!

    If someone is worth their salt then skills learnt with one distribution will be transferrable to another. The days of rote memorisation being sufficient for passing are pretty much gone - it'd even be a challenge to pass a MS exam with zero understanding of what you had memorised. The days of any employer (or even client) being impressed solely by a certificate are also (thankfully) passed. Any cert is just another fibre in a CV bow that indicates a minimum achievment, which should be strenthened by experience in the field

    Besides - last I heard Redhat pretty much followed the few standards that exist such as the FHS.

    It's not as if redhat is the only distribution to have tools that it developed for itself

    1. Re:locked into Red-hat specific tools by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      "I call bullshit..."

      I call dumbass.

  6. Re:Red Hat-specific skills? by Alpha_Geek · · Score: 2, Funny

    Karma be damned, I can't resist.

    1. Never do another headless install.
    2. Never use the command line to change settings again, use X!
    3. Don't pick specific software you want installed, pick broad categories so that lots of crap you don't want gets installed too.
    4. up2date -u

  7. Re:For a minute there... by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 2, Funny
    I could have sworn that said "Certified Addict Curriculum."

    Add this one to the long, long list of tired jokes that where lame to begain with:

    • 1, 2, 3...
    • In Soviet Russia...
    • Beowulf cluster...

    And now...

    • I could have sworn that said...
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  8. Re:yeah its true by QuantumRiff · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unlike MS certs, which try to let you do things any way you want, making your skillset instantly transferable to any OS.

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    What are we going to do tonight Brain?
  9. Re:Question 2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You attempt to install an rpm package only to discover that at least 8 other rpms have to be installed beforehand (only 3 of which are available at Red Hat's site) then you discover the 8th package requires you to install an obscure dev rpm of glibc which is only available from an unreliable ftp server in Poland and by now you have invested the last 3 hours of your life into installing this one application, at this moment which of the following phrases should you shout in order to help this process along:

    A: "Un-fucking-believable!"

    B: "This fucking rpm shit motherfucker!"

    C: "apt-get works so much better than this bullshit!"

    D: "Why the fuck are we using Red Hat?!"