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RE: Security Certs
From: "Chris Berry" <compjma () hotmail com>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:25:28 -0700
From: "David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu> > .... To me they represent a minimum level of knowledge about a > subject, so that for example, if the person is an MCSE and I > ask them an active directory question, they shouldn't say > "active what?", though it's no guarantee they'll actually know > the right answer. A few years back, I interviewed an MCSE for a network engineer position. Our environment was strictly 100-BaseT/Cat-5, so one didn't absolutely *need* to know anything else, but he was coming from working (as a civilian contractor, as I recall) on some Air Force base where they had a mix of 10-Base2 (co-ax) and UTP at 10 and 100 Mbps. So between having apparently passed the Networking Fundamentals requirement, and working daily with the mix, I figured he ought to be able to name at least *one* characteristic difference between 10-Base2 co-ax and 10/100 Cat-5. I would have taken almost any one. He couldn't, and that was one of two reasons he didn't get the job. (The other was that he considered himself too valuable as a "network designer" to crawl under a desk to plug in a cable....) David Gillett
LOL, yeah that can happen. I wouldn't hire someone based on their cert, but I prefer to interview people who have them (and have experience). I have an eight page verbal test I give candidates, and it consistently amazes me how many easy questions people miss. I have yet to speak to anyone who could tell me how the DHCP process works beyond just "it automatically assigns addresses". Not one of them has been able to give me DORA or ROSA, and this was for a position listed as Network Administrator.
Chris Berry compjma () hotmail com Systems Administrator JM Associates"We are successful when our bosses wonder what it is we do all day." -- Tim Mullen
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Current thread:
- RE: Security Certs, (continued)
- RE: Security Certs Robby Tanner (Oct 01)
- Re: Security Certs Mitchell Rowton (Oct 02)
- RE: Security Certs David Gillett (Oct 02)
- RE: Security Certs Chris Berry (Oct 02)
- RE: Security Certs David Gillett (Oct 02)
- Re: Security Certs Meritt James (Oct 02)
- RE: Security Certs David J. Jackson (Oct 02)
- Re: Security Certs Meritt James (Oct 02)
- Re: Security Certs Duncan (Oct 03)
- Re: Security Certs Meritt James (Oct 02)
- RE: Security Certs Nelson, Ernie (Oct 02)
- RE: Security Certs Chris Berry (Oct 02)
- RE: Security Certs Nick Duda (Oct 03)
- RE: Security Certs Myers, Marvin (Oct 03)
- RE: Security Certs m0use (Oct 06)
- Re: Security Certs Meritt James (Oct 06)
- RE: Security Certs Robby Tanner (Oct 01)