RHCE

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 09:28 4/29/2004, duncan brown wrote:
>Chadley Wilson said:
>
> > My company has decided to send me for Linux training. The boss wants me
> > to do the relevant training to bring our company up to speed with IBM
> > and and other major PC brands that are selling Linux on there PCs for
> > end users.
>
>http://www.lpi.org
>
>it's harder than rhce, not distribution centric, and well respected from
>what i understand.

Duncan's comment is based on some truth, but is entirely irrelevant since 
it compares apples to oranges. The LPI cert is a multiple-choice, 
theoretical exam which has been well and thoroughly developed; and it is a 
very valuable tool. The RHCE cert is based primarily on a very lengthy and 
thorough *practical* exam where things are actually broken and you have to 
fix them. The two are entirely different animals and should not be directly 
compared, at least in theory.

That being said, and noting that I have some years of Linux admin but 
neither cert, I simply cannot believe that *any* paper exam will be as good 
a guide as a six-hour practical exam to help me hire competent, useful 
people (note, this means people who are useful at getting work done even at 
3am when it's URGENT). I do hire people on occasion, and knowing they can 
do it is far preferable to knowing that they know it... at least in theory.

The LPI is well-respected and quite valuable. However, I strongly disagree 
that it's either "harder than RHCE" as Duncan said, or in any way superior 
to it. LPI good, RHCE better. That's MNSHO.

Cheers,


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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