[NCLUG] Re: SAIR or what cert?

[Crawford Rainwater]

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:00, nclug-request at nclug.org wrote:
> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:22:54 -0500 (EST)
> From: "DJ Eshelman" <dj at sgc-inc.net>
> Subject: [NCLUG] SAIR or what cert?
> To: <nclug at nclug.org>
> Message-ID: <2184.24.56.179.53.1075749774.squirrel at www.sgc-inc.net>
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> 
> SAIR is gone?  Hmm...
> 
> Interesting- that kind of changes things doesn't it!
> 
> Any thoughts on other certs to pursue?
> 
> I guess there's always RHCE, but that seems too specific to me.
> Linux+, if anything like some other CompTIA certs, seems a bit... well,
> easy.  Either that or I'm underclassing my skills...  Thoughts?  Has
> anyone out there gone for other Linux specific certs?
> 
> -DJ Eshelman
> 

DJ and company,

As Evelyn has pointed out, LPI offers a vendor (or distribution) neutral
certification.  It parallels SAIR, save LPI-101 and LPI-102 for the two
Level 1 exams, vs. the four SAIR exams for their first level of
certification (the SAIR LCA or Linux Certfied Administrator).  Other
than that major difference, they are basically the same material, same
level, etc., etc., etc.

SuSE also has a "LPI-103" that builds on the LPIC-1 certification which
will be out to the public in late March.  This is of course SuSE
specific, but instead of re-inventing the wheel (like RedHat did), they
just added on from the LPIC-1 to see how versed in SuSE the candidate
is.  

The CompTIA Linux+ is at most 50% Linux oriented, the rest being
hardware specific like the A+ for hardware in all honesty.

Any other questions, feel free to ask away.

Sincerely,

Crawford Rainwater
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