BSD certification.

[Mooneer Salem]

Hello,

I guess the only way you can avoid being artificial would be to order
services at the candidate's place of employment (like servers) and
randomly monitor how the box is administered throughout the year. Even
then that'd have problems (what if the guy/girl going for the
certification isn't currently working?) Not to mention the extra expense
the exam would then require.

The way I outlined would probably be the closest approximation to a real
systems administration situation (the prevention aspects of it could be
covered in the multiple-choice/written portion). In short, there's
really no perfect way to determine a candidate's competency other than
through experience and their references.

Thanks,

--
Mooneer Salem
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-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew D. Fuller [mailto:fullermd at over-yonder.net] 
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 1:19 PM
To: Mooneer Salem
Cc: 'Paul Robinson'; freebsd-chat at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: BSD certification.

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:08:43PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Mooneer Salem, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> Does anyone see any kind of fault with such a system? How could such a
> system be improved?

I think that the biggest fault is that the greatest measure of a
sysadmin
is more in how they avoid problems, and how they maintain systems
long-term when there are no immediate 'problems', than in how they fix
problem X in isolation.  So, that practicum ends up being kinda...  I
dunno.  "Artificial" is probably the best word.



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