Getting Certified (Part I): General Thoughts
Like with other fields in the computer industry, the big question is do you want/need to get certified?
Experience counts for a lot and one argument is, the material covered by the certification quickly becomes irrelevant and you have to keep shelling out money to keep up with the accreditation. For example, I have a Sun Java 2 Programmer certification from many, many years ago. But that is not going to do me any good right now, even though I do have base Java knowledge, Java and me like a separated/divorced couple have grown apart! Another train of thought is that certain vendors push their certification too hard and now so many people have the qualification, it cheapens the qualification.
However, having a recent qualification should at least illustrate that you have the base knowledge and cannot hurt your CV credentials.
Big players like Checkpoint, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Redhat and Sun (Java) have established programs. Other players (particularly open-source) are still setting up such as PHP and Perl.
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