As mentioned previously, today was exam day for my Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT) class. I think I did reasonably well, although there are definitely some things which I think I should have done faster. Those are areas I plan to study more, and work on both at home and work.
Annoyingly, unlike the Apple certification exam I took earlier in the year, the results won’t be ready for up to three business days, so I won’t have an answer until late Wednesday at the latest.
I suppose the next step is to decide if it’s a path I wish to continue following. I’m still not entirely convinced that I want to remain in the technology field forever, but I suppose that in the meantime I should build up as many useful skills as I can, especially given my (current) lack of a college degree. Perhaps if I get an opportunity to start using Linux more at work, I can move to a system administration position. I’ll probably take the ACTC exam from Apple next, since I still have a voucher for a discount on the exam and I feel pretty confident in my ability to pass, but I’ve no illusions about that being anywhere near as valuable to others, or useful in obtaining such a position, as, say, taking the RHCE exam from RedHat.
Anyway, I’ll post the results as soon as they arrive. Next week, it’s back to work.
One quick bit of advice, which I believe does not violate the confidentiality agreement regarding course content: don’t run pvcreate on the filesystem containing the root partition, unless you plan to spend some time in rescue mode.
(Naturally, I end up taking the exam just as Erorus finally gets his troublesome install working.)
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