Re: Red Hat Cluster Suite

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Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 08:43 +1000, John Newbigin wrote:
> 
>>I spent last week doing RH300 and I am now a RHCE!
> 
> 
> Congrats!  Glad you got to take the full RH300 track.
> I sure wish I would have and I definitely will next time.
> That exam will knock you on your butt if you don't prepare!
> 
> I got lucky on my RH302 (exam-only), I only got a 77% in a compulsory
> RHCE subsection requirement that required a 70%, but 96.1% overall
> (perfect 100% on everything else).  I came close to only getting the
> RHCT because of that one compulsory RHCE subsection.  I know many others
> that missed the RHCE, despite getting over a 90% total (and no section
> less than an 85%).
I got 100% on all sections :)

They did work us hard, 9 till 6 Monday to Thursday and and then 5.5 
hours of exams on Friday.  I spent 3.5 hours in the exams.

And they said I would have to wait till the following Wednesday for the 
results but I got it on the Saturday night.

John.

> 
> My long story short, my new client (and rather short-lived, I left them
> in the first 90 days citing, in writing, repeated contract violations
> despite warnings) pushed me to get my MCSE and RHCE.  I did half my MCSE
> (the MCSA) at lunch every day that week, in between working almost 50
> hours.  I then drove 450 miles overnight Thursday to take my RHCE (exam-
> only) on the brand new RHL9 exam on Friday.
> 
> And my new client wondered why I didn't have the cert when I came back
> (duh, it takes a week to find out, at least when I took it!).
> 
> In retrospect, "cert-whoring" (what I called it) for a few clients was
> the best thing for actually getting more work.  I hate certs in general,
> but it's the stupid thing that self-markets (sadly enough).  Sigh.
> 


-- 
John Newbigin
Computer Systems Officer
Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin


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