Archive for the ‘Certification’ Category

Who is an associate?

October 23rd, 2008 by Ivan Pepelnjak


One of my readers made an interesting observation in response to my "Knowledge or recipes" post: maybe network associates need recipes more than knowledge. My first reaction was to disagree; in my understanding, technicians work with recipes, engineers need to know what they're doing and why. But then I tried ...

Gaining Knowledge – what’s the best way to do it?

October 14th, 2008 by Ivan Pepelnjak


A few days after my “Knowledge or Recipes” post, Greg Ferro started his “Experience or Certifications” series with a radical “I would always choose certification over experience” approach that quickly moderated into “Knowledge is more fundamental than experience … but you need both”. It’s nice to see someone else thinking ...

Don’t despair, vote!

October 10th, 2008 by Ivan Pepelnjak


Several comments I've received in response to my "Knowledge or recipes" post were slightly resigned, leading me to the unfortunate conclusion that you all gave up and decided to live with the current state of the IT training business. But you can do something about it - go out and ...