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
-- Daniel Leeds Senior Systems Administrator Edmunds.com
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.
contact me and I can give you a good idea I just finished the complete track in Dec.
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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
-- Daniel Leeds Senior Systems Administrator Edmunds.com
Hi Daniel
I passed my first stage exam 2 weeks ago and would recommend the cd training for the fundamentals exam as well as any passed papers you can get your hands on
Sarah
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Leeds, Daniel Sent: 23 January 2007 17:51 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
-- Daniel Leeds Senior Systems Administrator Edmunds.com
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