> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:56:42 -0400
> From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Professional standards.
> This was answered early on: fact is *nobody* has anything anywhere
> near the kind and scope of tests you'd need, even if you could
> enumerate them (which is where the "big book of sysadmin" came in).
> Put another way, it's another iteration of "how do you define
> `sysadmin'?".
I guess that's one of the things that got lost in the noise. I've been
under the assumption from the begining that there no one organization
that could possibly have all the pieces that could be needed, so
what's the harm in leveraging off these existing organizations what we
can while we develop the hard stuff that's needed.
How do I define "sysadmin"? Easy. The act/task/skill/profession of
being a "sysadmin" is an amalgem of a large number of skills. I can't
imagine anyone expecting or believing (much less paying for) a
singular endorsement of someone's skills without it being a joke. What
I *would* expect is that for me to prove to a potential employer that
I have the skills to qualify for a system administration position
would be the collection of "badges" I have earned that can show them
that I've been exposed and tested on at least *some* of the things I'm
going to need to do a good job. Then the employer can get some
exposure to LOPSA's recomendations and that over time it's found that
we can help assure these companies a known level of education.
If we were to itemize a list of at least SOME of the basic things we
need to do a good job and identified known vendors who address these
things that we can START to build a reputation as having SOME value.
I guess I've beat this horse enough. Thanks for everyone's time.
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<< MCT >> Michael C Tiernan.
Is God a performance artist?
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mtiernan
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