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I agree with most of the sentiment already expressed so I'll keep this post as brief as possible. My history is in technology company ownership; corporate I.T. Systems supply and support, storage specialisation, and biometric security systems.

Certifications (or 'tickets' as I call them) are great to augment a university or college qualification as it shows motivation to specialise and improve. However, it will only help you get your first (trainee) job. Your first employment will be the main consideration for your second employment, not your tickets. When I was interviewing candidates, hard experience would always beat tickets; no contest whatsoever. A guy who'd run a support centre for 3 years but had no tickets and been made redundant through no fault of his own would win hands down against a rookie with tickets. Also, as we all know, a lot of the stuff you have to learn on these courses you will never use again.

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kas_forgetticket

KAS_FORGETTICKET(8)					       AFS Command Reference					       KAS_FORGETTICKET(8)

NAME

       kas_forgetticket - Discards all tickets for the issuer

SYNOPSIS

       kas forgetticket [-all] [-help]

       kas f [-a] [-h]

DESCRIPTION

       The kas forgetticket command discards all of the issuer's tickets stored in the local machine's kernel memory. This includes the AFS server
       ticket from each cell in which the user has authenticated, and any tickets that the user have acquired during the current kas session
       (either when entering the session or by using the kas getticket command).

OPTIONS

       -all
	   Discards all tickets. This argument explicitly invokes the command's default behavior.

       -help
	   Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.

EXAMPLES

       The following command discards all of the issuer's tickets.

	  % kas forgetticket

PRIVILEGE REQUIRED

       None, and no password is required.

SEE ALSO

       kas(8)

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OpenAFS 							    2012-03-26						       KAS_FORGETTICKET(8)