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I just recently got a job where I support UNIX servers and the Oracle DBs that are attached to them. This is my first job out of college. The job is a year long contract job. Just before I got the job I had enrolled in courses for the MCSD. I have completed the first course and will start to study transcenders to pass the Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solutions test. When I got out of college I was dead set on a development position. However after getting the job as an admin I find that I really enjoy the work. I am debating on switching gears and going after a Linux cert. My question is two fold:
1) What is the job market like for someone with a degree, a year’s worth of experience, and a Linux cert?
2) Out of the Linux certs that are out there which ones are the most worth while?

Thanx in advance,
Joe

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Certs

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If you choose the Linux cert route I’d pick up the LCPI http://www.lpi.org/bs/home.html

I’d choose it for two reasons:
1) It is a generic Linux cert. So even if Red Hat died tomorrow, you’d still be ok
2) It is more comprehensive than the Linux+

The RHCE is decent, but is very Red Hat centric, so you have to make sure that is what you want your focus to be.

Good luck!

I agree

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the non distro centric cert is better than going after red hat or suse ( novell ) certification.

Mandriva has laso gotten into the cert field.

but going after a distro centric cert really only teaches you to use that distro’s tools, it doesn’t teach you the underlying tools they are built on like the lcpi does.

Go for two certs

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I agree the others posts but,………. (there’s always a but) LPI is not finished yet so a lot of stuff is not on this cert.
In my experience, go first for the LPI as it gives a good point of view and later go for second one.
For this second one, I have to point to Novell Certified Linux Professional and Engineer. It’s a good one and Novell Linux is growing.

About if it’s better a cert or years of experience, it depend on how much money they want to pay you. Years of experience means money and a cert means going into a business as a junior admin.

Good luck.

Linux+ and Novell

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The updated Linux+ exam is quite challenging and a good measure of 6-12 months systems experience. More importantly, if you’re thinking of Novell eventually, and you complete the Novell 3060 “Getting Started with Linux” course for Linux+, you’ll be 1/3 of the way along toward their CLP. Just a thought.

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