[BSDcert] the study material question

[Nick Buraglio]

That is a good point.  Sometimes the most simple things get overlooked.


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On Apr 5, 2005, at 3:47 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote:

> Nick Buraglio wrote:
>
>> Just experience.  I have an unrelated undergrad degree, back in the 
>> mid 90's I started looking at certs to supplement.  I took all kinds 
>> of tests, Apple, Cisco, LPI, Microsoft, CompTIA,basically anything I 
>> had to work on or found interesting I read books and took tests.  I 
>> went from job to job looking for something that I liked, each time 
>> trying to milk all the information from employers as to what was 
>> valuable.  This could be a regional thing, in Central Illinois in the 
>> US has limited opportunities.  One needs to be creative, think out of 
>> the box and be marketable.  From what I was told from the larger 
>> employers, the tests that are potentially not proctored are basically 
>> worthless.  While I believe that being successful in IT is 70% common 
>> sense and 30% knowing where to look and who to ask, most employers 
>> don't agree (or don't know enough to agree).
>>
>
> Who would have thought there would be another Nick (with the same 
> initials even) in Illinois that uses BSD, small world, anyways... I 
> think most of you guys / gals are blowing the cheating thing out of 
> proportion; Microsoft lackeys are just that (popular, buzzwords, 
> etc.), BSD is obscure (UNIX is a bit too) to beginners, and you have 
> to want to use UNIX. I think we just eliminated 90% of the cheaters 
> without even lifting a finger.
>