Okan Demirmen wrote:
On Tue 2005.03.15 at 16:27 -0500, Mikel King wrote:
Jim Brown wrote:
I'm interested in hearing from others about certification levels.
Some of us have had conversations about levels- basic, medium, advanced;
or basic, advanced; or just advanced; etc.
Also-
If you got a BSD certification how long do you think it should last?
Best Regards,
Jim B.
For life...;-)
No seriously, um maybe 2 years max. It would be nice to have a simple
recert process, maybe something like a subset refresher test based on
your highest awarded cert? I mean it would be really counter productive
to be Certified as 'Advance Network God Supremo' and you have to recert
at every level below just to keep your current cert. Personally when a
vendor pulls that kind of scam we dump them, I don't think it's right to
hit people that far below the belt, my wallet is still throbbing from
the robbery Cisco pulled last time the updated their training program.
a quick note here:
multi-level is good, imho.
as for testing process, i know you don't like the cisco certs, but
i feel the ccie series makes sense. written test; once you pass,
you take the lab - now you have your ccie in whatever - routing and
switching, security, etc..but for each type/track of ccie you have
a written test then lab. for re-cert, you just re-take the written
every 2 years. yes, you do end up with "old" lab experience, but
as another post stated, this helps further the individual, hopefully
enticing them to keep the hands on experience. or we could lab test
on re-cert as well.
as for the other cisco certs(and others), useless. one needs to be
tested in a simulated environment at least.
okan
It's not that I don't like Cisco, really honest, it's just that some of
their recent course changes, and cert practices seem to be nothing more
than test revenue streams and of little real value.
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