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The Linux Foundation partnership with edX platform is expanding, and users will now get the Essentials of Linux Systems Administration (LFS201) online course.
[The Linux Foundation's courses] that help people make a career out of Linux [...] are provided in different ways, but now they are also available on edX, which is a nonprofit online learning platform launched in 2012 by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The first course was Introduction to Linux (LFS101) and the Linux Foundation says that it has been accessed by 400,000 students, which is actually a very big number. In fact, LFS101 is the biggest course on the edX platform and that says quite a lot.
"The new course, which is appropriate for those who have completed LFS101 and want to take the next step, as well as individuals who have worked in IT positions but not directly with Linux, will be offered for a fee of $499, which includes a Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator exam attempt, a $300 value which includes one free retake if not passed on the first attempt. The course will be offered at an introductory price of only $399 [until June 17]," reads the announcement for The Linux Foundation.
Related: New Linux Foundation Self-Paced Sysadmin Course to Prep you for Certification
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday June 15 2015, @12:51AM
... when I did phone support for Microport. I've also been paid to do SunOS admin. Of course I've been taking care of my own boxen since I got my first computer in 1986.
I'd like to get back into system administration, but when I look at the job board posts there is no doubt in my mind that I would be regarded as unqualified, this because I use a couple Xen VMs rather than Amazon AWS - they are also very specific about Amazon AWS.
Despite that I did the QA for MacTCP, and so at least at one time was intimately familiar with the RFCs I expect I would be regarded as ignorant of networking.
Someone published what it would be like were carpenters inverviewed like programmers. "Can you do brown paint". "Yeah I paint". "But brown - how many years do you have experience with brown?" "If you want brown paint, I'll paint your house brown". "I'm sorry we can't offer you a position we need someone who can hit the ground running."
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2015, @01:27AM
"Can you do brown paint".
That's funny, but it's not really a good analogy. For example many of us have had experiences hiring an experienced Java programmer who had a tough lime with the idea of memory pointers in C++. As another example, take vi vs. emacs. Of course, they're both just text editors, so anyone with many-years proficiency in one could easily pick up the other and use it exclusively. Except that nobody ever does.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday June 15 2015, @02:04AM
there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that not mentioning git nor github on my resume loses me a lot of jobs.
The reason I don't is that I regard the use of revision control as fundamental to software development these days. Potential employers should simply expect that I know how to use git.
Consider how disruptive it would be were I to shit my pants during a team meeting. Yet I do not list the fact that mommy potty-trained widdle mikey on my resume, I regard volitional bowel control as a very basic job requirement as well.
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