jerry.sommerdorf at gwslinux.com madly scribbled on 09/19/2003 08:37 AM: > > I am thinking about getting my RHCE certification. I need to know if > this would be a good cert to have. There doesn't seem to > be a lot of need for this certification. What's your thought??? > > Thanks, > Jerry Sommerdorf Jerry, In order to get my MCSE/MCSA and CCNA, I went to a boot camp in Atlanta, GA (I got all three in a 3.5-week blitz). From my own experience, those certs did help me -- not necessarily to get hired at either my previous job or my current one (although that is possible), but to learn skills that I lacked, and fill in the gaps in my knowledge that I didn't even know I had. From that perspective, it was well worth the time and money to get the certs. The flip side is, if I had to do it over again, I would probably have tried to find some less-expensive classes. For myself, the boot camp was extremely helpful, simply because it got me away from everyday life with its distractions, and put me in a place where I pretty much had *nothing* better to do than study every night in my hotel room. But if you are highly motivated and disciplined, then you could just as easily buy a few $50-60 books (or less for recently-used ones) and learn the material on your own. What someone else said was true, about having the server hardware to practice on -- but you could always pick up something cheap on Ebay or elsewhere, use it for studying, and then sell it again on Ebay when you are done. I know lots of CCNE's and CCNP's have done exactly that when they were practicing for their Cisco certs. -- Dave Sherman - MCSE, MCSA, CCNA Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list