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RE: Security Certs
From: "David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:21:20 -0700
.... 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- RE: Security Certs, (continued)
- RE: Security Certs Phillip McCollum (Oct 01)
- RE: Security Certs MeaCulpa (Oct 03)
- RE: Security Certs Phillip McCollum (Oct 03)
- RE: Security Certs MeaCulpa (Oct 06)
- Re: Security Certs David Nichols (Oct 06)
- RE: Security Certs David Gillett (Oct 06)
- RE: Security Certs MeaCulpa (Oct 03)
- RE: Security Certs Phillip McCollum (Oct 01)
- Re: Security Certs Mitchell Rowton (Oct 02)
- RE: Security Certs David Gillett (Oct 02)
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