attn: Justin

[Justin Bennett]

It's test based, like most, there is 2 parts a question based section, 
and a hands on system setup and config.  You can take the test ~$700, or 
there is a 5 day course I took, mostly review for me wasn't worth it in 
my opinion but my employer payed for it, I would reccomend it if your 
not paying for it, but if you get a review book, and an old pc you can 
do most of it on your own.  that was ~$2500. Red hat just announced a 
new certification RHCA looks interesting I may look into taking that. As 
for employers, hmm coudln't tell you, I haven't come across a lot of 
shops that run linux in a production environment, locally. About 90% of 
our servers are linux, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that is an 
oddity in the buffalo market, if he's looking to move thats a different 
story.
The plus side is once you get comfortable in a unix like OS picking up 
something like Solaris for example which is big in the Universities and 
several other places in the area is pretty easy to pick up.


Justin


Cyber Source wrote:

> Hey Justin,
>  I know your a RHCE. My son is interested in what steps to take and 
> the costs involved. Could you enlighten us? He is also interested in 
> who might be hiring a RHCE, just to get some ideas. He just started 
> ITT and is getting totally pissed at all the M$ crap they feed. I told 
> him I thought it would be like that and a waste of money and that they 
> wouldn't teach anything he's not learning at Cyber Source (except for 
> how to bow to M$). You wouldn't believe some of the nonsense they 
> teach there, I think there M$ funded.....
> Anyway, if you or anyone else could give us some clues as to obtaining 
> an RHCE or any other Linux Certification, that would be great, Thanks.