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Are certifications worth it?

I have just been on RedHat SA 3 training course (4 days) and sat exams EX200 (RHCSA) and EX300 (RHCE)

The daft thing was that politics meant I wasn't allowed to take courses SA 1 or 2. So I learnt about stuff I would never use (SELinux; iSCSI; NFS Kerberos encrypted with user specific access rules etc.) and then took the exams.

Somehow I passed RHCSA for the course I didn't do, even though I didn't know a few big chunks so would score zero for those sections. Sadly I failed on RHCE because there's too much to remember about irrelevant stuff that I would never dream of using and it all seems a bit over contrived.

Given that the exams marks if you can pass the exam rather than how you perform in a real job, what do people think of it's value? It might look good to management and help get an interview, but as someone not looking to move, ........ ?

Just wondering, Smilie

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tachk

TACHK(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						 TACHK(1p)

NAME

       tachk - Check the validity of the trust anchors in a named.conf file

SYNOPSIS

	 tachk [options] <named.conf>

DESCRIPTION

       tachk checks the validity of the trust anchors in the specified named.conf file.  The output given depends on the options selected.

       Note:  This script may be removed in future releases.

OPTIONS

       tachk takes two types of options:  record-attribute options and output-style options.  These option sets are detailed below.

   Record-Attribute Options
       These options define which trust anchor records will be displayed.

       -valid
	   This option displays the valid trust anchors in a named.conf file.

       -invalid
	   This option displays the invalid trust anchors in a named.conf file.

   Output-Format Options
       These options define how the trust anchor information will be displayed.  Without any of these options, the zone name and key tag will be
       displayed for each trust anchor.

       -count
	   The count of matching records will be displayed, but the matching records will not be.

       -long
	   The long form of output will be given.  The zone name and key tag will be displayed for each trust anchor.

       -terse
	   This option displays only the name of the zones selected by other options.

       -Version
	   Displays the version information for tachk and the DNSSEC-Tools package.

       -help
	   Display a usage message.

AUTHOR

       Wesley Griffin

       (Current contact for tachk is Wayne Morrison, tewok@tislabs.com.)

SEE ALSO

       trustman(8)

       named.conf(5)

perl v5.14.2							    2012-06-21								 TACHK(1p)