23 Jan
2007
23 Jan
'07
10:59 p.m.
I only took the first lowest-level exam, but even though I've been using netapps for many years I would not have passed on experience alone. There were questions about products/features that my company just doesn't use, and some ancillary questions about things like how you request replacement parts on the website (which I actually apparently answered incorrectly even though I've ordered replacement parts that way dozens of times and never had trouble).
I didn't pay for extensive training though. For that one exam I did, I only went through the introductory WBTs which if I recall were only a couple hundred dollars at most.
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Michael W. Sphar - IS&T - Lead Systems Administrator
SMBU Engineering Support Services, BMC Software
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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]
On Behalf Of Leeds, Daniel
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:51 AM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: netapp certified expert
has anyone completed the netapp certified expert exams? coming from a
day to day administration level on filers for many years im interested
in what sort of topics they cover and if they are geared towards the
real world or more of a training course regurgitation.
in so many other vendor/system certs the exams focus on trivial and
unrealistic aspects of adminstration--for example, sun certs focusing on
adding printers and users via the gui---puhlease.
mostly im just trying to figure out if someone could reasonably take the
tests on experience alone or do i need to shell out 15K plus on all the
little courses to get the courseware and then cram that.
thanks
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Daniel Leeds
Senior Systems Administrator
Edmunds.com