On Monday 18 Aug 2008, Rony wrote:
Arun Khan wrote:
Over the last year, I have interviewed several candidates from the various Mumbai training institutes conducting RHCE curriculum; not a single candidate scored more than 25% in a 40 question quiz, based on the RH033 book, that I conducted.
IMO, you would be better off buying some decent hardware, install CentOS (equiv. to RHEL), experiment with virtualization (to simulate multiple systems) and learn the RHCE curriculum on your own.
Doing an RHEL course provides an overall understanding of OSs, networking, storage media etc. and for someone who wants to learn all this in a limited span of time, it is very beneficial. The third semester (module 3, servers) is the important one and that is where a good institute and proper faculty will make the difference. At the
Indeed, don't disagree with the concept.
The problem is finding the "good" institute and the "proper" faculty combo. I have gone through products of practically all the name brand insti's in Mumbai conducting RHCE. After probing some of them, I found out what you have listed below - little or no hands on practicals, some not even following the course material the way it is presented in the RHCE books.
institute where I did the course, the 3 months course got dragged to 9 months. We were migrating from one room to another and almost every time we had to load the OS over the last batch's other OS installation. The first 2 modules were very nicely explained with good practical time. The last module was taken in short time by another faculty and it was more of a demo where more than 15 people jostled to view a single monitor where sever setup was demonstrated.
May I ask how much did this place charge per student? The least the insti could have done is rent a projector so that all could see the demo. IIRC, one of the conditions for becoming a Redhat training partner is to provide proper training facilities and hands on practical time.
IMO, the self motivated individuals are better off spending the "tuition" money in buying hardware and learning it on their own. At least in this case they will not be jostling for lab time with others.