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Jerry B. Altzman wrote: I know it sounds like a BS cert but for my company that uses FreeBSD for as much as possible it would be nice to have a secretarial applicant that new the basics, already. Therefore, I tossed that in as a nice to have cert, certainly not a prereq for anything else, I mean you certainly could stage these as successive prerequisite certifications. Let's face it basic user/operator stuff rarely changes so that could have an extremely long lifetime as far as certs go. The same goes for Jr Admin, I doubt that the cert for that will change drastically over the course several years. Even Sr Admin stuff the basics haven't really change too much, I am still using texts on admin stuff that are easily 8 years old.changing subject...changing thread... On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:32:18 -0500, Mikel King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The whole reason I drafted this concept was to ultimately reduce the work load drafting up these certs. Since the first block will be slow to change it should require the lowest amount of effort to maintain once established. This should also in turn free up people who are say experts in security or db stuff to maintain these fast paced areas of expertise. This could also help to reduce the duplication of effort and overlap.
No I don't think so, but that is some thing that would set these apart from vendor specific certs. If the jr passes the test why not? Of course this all depends upon how the certs are defined. I am just tossing out one scenario. I don't see any reason why not. When I was in the military I held many advance certifications at a jr level. For instance an E4 Electronics Technician could hold a Crypto Cert, that his E10 ETCS supervisor does not. The Senior Chief is clearly a top level cert he certainly gets paid enough, but he doesn't need to be certified on the crypto equipment to manage those who are and work on it daily. Does it mean that he couldn't work on said equipment if the need arose? Of course he could, that's what tech manuals are for. I am sure we will have discussion from both sides of the fence on this, but I really think that if we take the time to properly normalize the certs then will have achieved something truly note worthy. Either way it is all Dependant upon how we define the certs and the prereqs for each specialization. -- Cheers, Mikel King Optimized Computer Solutions, INC 39 West Fourteenth Street Second Floor New York, NY 10011 http://www.ocsny.com t:212.727.2100x132 +------------------------------------------+ You may like them. You will see. You may like them in a tree. http://www.FreeBSD.org http://www.OpenOffice.org http://www.Mozilla.org +------------------------------------------+ How do you spell cooperation? Pessimists use each other, but optimists help each other. Collaboration feeds your spirit, while competition only stokes your ego. You'll find the best way to get along. +------------------------------------------+ |
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