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by hmsardenberg

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Has anyone heard about Unix and Linux certifications? How valuable are they? If you're startinup w/ Unix what's the best source of information?

I'm one exam short of the MCSE certification and see Unix administration as my next project. Do anyof you have any tips/Advice?

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by eric.coniac

try to go on the Red Hat page and you can get answer on the Suse page you can get also others possibility, but all this could be good only if you live in a big country in Portugal by example the different companie dealing the certification are as far I know incompetent for the private person. I wish you all the best

by stevef68

I think your best bet would be to go for Linux+ certification from CompTia. I know a couple of people that have this cert, and they said about half the test questions are actually A+/Hardware type questions. But, the other half are very intense, they want to know what switch you would use with a certain command to get your desires result. Best I can tell you is play with it--alot!!

by ericryd

It all depends what you want. If you just want to get into Unix/Linux then I would go with Linux+, it is a fairly simple test, very much like A+ in the hardware respects. If you want more advanced you can go for vendor specific certs (HP UX, Solaris SCNA, Redhat RHCE...). Of you can go for General Linux Certs such as Sair (www.linuxcertifications.com) or LPI. I'm going for Sair myself right now, its a good general linux cert (8 tests to become a level 2 tech - equal to mcse of microsoft) and it is vendor neutral.

Hope that helps!

Eric

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