Red Hat Announces Certified Architect Curriculum

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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Question 1

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Question 1

[JustNiz]

Celebrate that Fedora automatically detected and patched a security hole.

Rad Hat training...

[JustNiz]

It would be nice if Red Hat offered a certification course for software developers.

Pot, kettle

[jb.hl.com]

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?

Re:yeah its true

[ewilts]

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.

locked into Red-hat specific tools

[daveb]

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

Re:yeah its true

[love2hateMS]

You have no idea what you are talking about. I passed the RHCE with a 100% without using a single Red Hat tool. They don't care HOW you do it, as long as it works when you are done.

This nonsense about being locked in to "Red Hat's way of doing things" is silly.

The RHCE is a GREAT certification test. I've done others (in particular Oracle). There is no comparison. In the RHCE test I took only 2 of 10 people passed. Five failed before the end of the first section. One guy left 10 minutes into the test. He was certified on all the other major Unix flavors. He thought he could pass the test by studying the course guide for the RH300 course. Two guys, who both failed, worked for IBM in their Linux development for Notes.

The LPI tests you on memorizing a bunch of command-line switches. RHCE tests you on doing real work. I'll take the hands-on test any day.