Need advice on Linux certifications

[Greenday]

I donno if this is the right place to ask this question......

i have 4 months experience with linux.....and am comfortable with it to an extent......if i want to take some certifications.....which is the best one to start for someone with my experience......I know tht redhat does conduct some....but from wat i read these are supposed to be very difficult......are there any other certifications.....for some one like with 6 months experience or so.....

On the other hand.....Does certification help???....

If this is not the right place to ask...may be the moderators can move this to a different location..

Thanks
Greenday

[tana]

Do you have an idea about the kind of certification you are looking for? If you are looking for a Linux admin, or developer, or support certificate (the names are not precise, but you get the idea) 4 months experience with Linux is quite insufficient (unless you have 20+ years of UNIX experience prior to this four months with Linux ) only to remember the names of the major Linux modules, programs, even files. But if you are looking for a certificate that says you are a proficient user of Linux, for example, there must be training courses that take a week or two and when you finish them you'll get a certificate.

In my opinion a certificate is useless, if one does not have adequate knowledge in the particular area. So I can say that a certificate is complimentary to knowledge and skills - if you don't have them, a certificate is obsolete.

[KClaisse]

I hear that micro$oft is handing out windows certificates. All you have to do is give them money.

[Kojak]

http://www.lpi.org/ Site of the Linux Professional Institue. They offer distro independent certifications.
https://www.redhat.com/training/ RH certification information.

Some answers to basic questions: http://www.gocertify.com/faq/linuxfaq.shtml

My tip: read e.g. Rute Linux manual and/or the Red Hat system-guides, learn your system in and out, test yourself in disaster recovery and other stuff for at least two years. Then you might have the knowledge for such tests. RHCE is very hard, from what I was told by friends of mine.

I am using Linux for quite some years now, but I still think that I am not knowledgeable enough for passing a RHCE test.