[YLUG] Re:Test/Certification centre reccomendations ?

[Pete Fenelon]

On 07/09/06, Anthony Edwards <anthony at catfish.nildram.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:18:08PM +0100, Simon Ward wrote:
>
> >   Everybody seems to have jumped on the certification bandwagon (who
> > wants or needs a PHP certification, ferchrissakes?!) and as a result the
> > whole thing has been devalued - MCSE and CCNA appear to be the two
> > exceptions to the rule, but given the companies responsible for their
> > administration etc. that's hardly surprising.
>
> Does CCNA still have a value in the job market?  I would have thought
> that CCNP would be a minimum requirement in terms of those employers
> looking for Cisco skilled networking staff, and who require paper
> qualifications.
>

Historically the only vendor qualifications that I ever had any
respect for were CCIE (Cisco - most of the others didn't have much
rigour to them) and Master CNE (Novell). Anyone who gets through those
has to have some real intelligence and application domain knowledge as
well as the ability to regurgitate the course books.

pete
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