At 04:26 PM 1/31/00 -0500, Adrian Walters wrote:
>so which one would you guys/gals recommend? which would look better on a
>resume? and be the most beneficial in terms of learning? :)
I've been involved with LPI for about a year and tracked the Linux
certification "field" as well as I can during that time. In a survey I did
several months ago, Red Hat and LPI were the most recognized (in that order
I think.... this, BTW, was before LPI had published an exam). The audience
were mostly LinuxToday viewers who bothered to come answer a survey about
Linux certification. I don't know if the people reviewing your resume will
be a part of that audience or not.
I think Red Hat is a good choice if you need a certification now and have
sufficient resources. I don't recall if you can take only the test but I
think most people get several days of training and then take the test.
LPI is a vendor-neutral exam-only program that does not include training
and costs commensurately less. I think that for people who do not need
training (e.g., they'll use one of the several books or courses being
targeted for the LPI program) it's a good choice. It may be harder (cannot
tell yet what LPI's passing rate will be but something like 80% of people
pass the RH certification test). As described by someone, they have as of
yet only produced the first of a three-exam sequence needed to certify.
They are working hard on the second so this won't be an issue for long.
There are a lot of big-name companies backing LPI so I think it will emerge
as the clear choice unless you specifically want Red Hat training.
Sair is a competing, for-profit program that was recently acquired by some
bigger firm that I should probably recall... IMHO, I think this was a
serious effort but ultimately not nearly as well done as either the LPI or
RH programs. I think they offer training as well. Links to their site are
available on the LPI website.
I'm hardly unbiased but FWIW, I would go with LPI because I think they are
working very hard to make a high quality program, they are widely
recognized, you only pay for the exams and LPI is non-for-profit so they
are offering the exams as inexpensively as possible, and LPI is
vendor-neutral. I also think that it's hard to create a program that sells
both training and certification to be fair to both. Anyway, LPI also
prides itself on being as open as possible--you could surf over there:
http://www.lpi.org
and help make the remaining exams. In fact, your help would be very much
appreciated.
-Alan Mead
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