Arun Khan wrote:
On Monday 18 Aug 2008, Amit Joshi wrote:
Hi, I have completed my engineering and seriously looking at System Administration as a career option. Can you tell me about the career prospects? Also, I am thinking about taking the RHCE exam. I am not able to spot much training institutes in Mumbai, CMS Computer Institute and Gates Training being the only ones I have been able to come up with. Can you please comment on the teaching quality of these computer institutes and such stuff? Looking forward to your replies.
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 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. The tall ones had to stand behind all the shorter ones and that made the screen text hardly visible.