Value and difficulty of RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer)?

[joshdoe]

That would be the Red Hat Certified Engineer, uh, certification. In my networking class at my HS I've been looking at this a little bit. Anyone know anything about this?

 

[joshdoe]

Anyone?

 

[BOFH]

From what I know of the test it is rather difficult. I personally am going for the LPI stuff. It is not dependent on a distribution and is created by the community at large.

 

[joshdoe]

Hmm, never heard of LPI. Looks very interesting. (Cheaper too!)

My teacher has already ordered a RHCE book, wouldn't the same stuff apply(generally)?

Anyone else done much with LPI?

 

[BOFH]

For the most part they will, but not always. There are tools that are on a RH system that aren't always on others and I'm not sure how much of that they cover. For instance, last I tried, linuxconf didn't really work on a debian box.

 

[Remedy]

Is there a MCE(Mandrake Cert. Engineer)?

 

[BOFH]

no MCE. AFAIK only RH has their own certification. the rest have been chipping into the LPI thing from what I recall