[Scottish] wat courses should i take? {Scanned}

[Peter George]

Well, the easiest way would be to just sit the LPI exams at a local exam lab. With 12 years experience you should be in the pass zone, and they a pretty cheap to take.

We'll be running another lab with LPI shortly (just building a better exam booking system for it right now), exams will cost £50 per paper.

Background information and objectives here: http://www.lpi.org/en/lpic.html

We'll be offering LPIC1 courses later this year, but to be honest, if you haven't been working as a Junior Sysadmin for several years, a course will not enable you to pass the exams, there's too much material at too deep a level, nothing counts more than experience when it comes to these papers, and that's why they are increasingly valued by employers.

HTH

Regards,

P



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Peter George CIW CI
Training Manager
Net Resources Ltd
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-----Original Message-----
From: scottish-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:scottish-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Gary
Sent: 25 August 2004 21:26
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Subject: Re: [Scottish] wat courses should i take? {Scanned}

Ok, now I am a tad worried ;)

I have been involved in Unix for about 12 years now in various shapes 
and forms.

I have never been on any course for any of the stuff, knowing that I 
will possibly
a) not learn anything drastically new
b) be in a class where i will be totally more experienced than the other 
course takers
c) bored to death and lose interest.

I am not all that keen on Linux, being a FreeBSD, Solaris fan

How does one like me, attain some of these qualifications 'that is 
desireable' which the pimp will promote to get me a better position?


-Gary
PS: I am asking this out of curiousity, not that I am unhappy or needing 
another job..

Peter George wrote:

> The courses look OK if you are looking for distro/vendor lock in. 
> 
> The high stakes vendor neutral must have cert these days is LPIC. 
> 
> You are more likely to see Junior System Administration jobs specifying at least LPIC1 these days than RedHat or SuSE certification IMHO. Unfortunately, there are no reputable (LATP) UK based courses, yet ;-)
> 
> HTH
> 
> P
> 
> --
> Peter George CIW CI
> Training Manager
> Net Resources Ltd
> 26 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, EH12 5AL
> T: 0131 477 7127  F: 0131 477 7126
> http://www.netresources.co.uk
> 


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