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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. red-hat lock-in by surreal-maitland · · Score: 4, Insightful

    well, yes. when you get certified for a particular distro, you're going to get informed about *that* distro and no other. fortunately, for most human beings, learning one thing does not outright prevent them from learning other things.

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  2. Pot, kettle by jb.hl.com · · Score: 5, Insightful
    One training expert, however, cautions that Red Hat certifications can lock administrators in to Red Hat-specific skills.


    And the MSCE and other qualifications don't?
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  3. Re:yeah its true by ewilts · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What a crock. I've passed the RHCE (with a 100% score in all sections). At no point did I feel that I was forced to use any Red Hat specific utilities or conventions. The exam is purely performance-based - Red Hat doesn't care if you want to use postfix or sendmail, vi or emacs,, or how the services start up at boot, as long as the specifications are met. You have to know how to use anaconda, but that's about it for RH-specific things that I can recall.

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  4. Certification lock-in by CharAznable · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you take certification classes, and that locks you into a particular distro, then it's your own fault. There's really no excuse for not doing your homework, be it in RH certification classes or at home reading the Gentoo manuals.

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  5. Re:yeah its true by Ian+Wolf · · Score: 4, Insightful

    THOSE BASTARDS! How dare they! Why when I got my Sun Certified System Adminisrator, I learned everything there was to know about managing HP-UX. My Oracle cert made me an expert in DB2. What cert should I get next? I bet an MCSE cert would help me master QNX? Maybe I'll get a CCNA to prove my mastery of Nortel switches.

    One training expert, however, cautions that Red Hat certifications can lock administrators in to Red Hat-specific skills.

    Oh, because once you learn how to do something the "Red Hat" way you wont be capable of learning how to manage other operating systems.

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    Med Student 2: No, I was afraid it would prevent me from learning Orthopaedics.

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