FreeBSD Certifications? Does it exist?

[Tim Kellers]

I'm the instructor (and the author of) the NJIT (New Jersey Institute of 
Technology) "Open source unix classes."  The NJIT curriculum, while 
non-credit and classified as "Professional Development' is the Only 
University level course in the world that is both sanctioned as a bona fide 
certificate program (certificate endorsed by NJIT) AND endorsed by the 
FreeBSD foundation.  (If you don't believe me, e-mail Robert Watson of the 
core FreeBSD team.)

NJIT offers 3 courses in the BSD unix certification program: Intro to Unix, 
Unix Admin I and Unix Admin II in the certification track.  Until a year ago, 
we also offered Solaris certification training: preparation for the Sun 
Solaris exam  --which in the past 2 weeks has been announced as yet another 
open-source track.  SUN plans, apparently, on basing its business plan on 
earning a profit from it's proprietary java  implementations and it's 
hardware development.

Unlike Sun, NJIT has placed 100 percent of it's successful certificate 
candidates in IT jobs, and all on a track to system administrator positions.

The NJIT open source unix prgram remains a demanding and difficult program 
--not unlike commercial system administrator positions.  While our selection 
process is both stringent and competitive, we welcome potential candidates to 
apply.  Our next in-class instruction begins in early October; out next 
eLearning instruction begins September 1, 2004.

http://cpe.njit.edu/noncredit/#opensourceunix

Follow the links, and find out about our program: or. alternately, write 
kellers at njit.edu (me) for further details.

Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT

On Wednesday 25 August 2004 11:49 pm, Bob Perry wrote:
> Vulpes Velox wrote:
> >On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 00:33:36 -0400
> >
> >Bob Perry <rperry4 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >>>They offer training and classes that come with a cert afterwards,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>from what I can tell. Would be nice just to see a place that offers
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>just a cert and no classes.
> >>
> >>If I read the site correctly, they offer both classroom and, what
> >>they call, eLearning for their Distance Learning students.
> >
> >Unless they are offering a major difference in price, it still looks
> >like way to much for just a cert and still a class.
>
> Certainly can't argue with you regarding their price.
> It's a lot more than I can afford.
>
> FreeBSD can be a handful at times.  I certainly would like
> to understand and appreciate it more than I do.  The cert
> would be secondary.
>
> Bob