Re: Certification and SRA

Hello,

The only certifications that are worth a darn are the ones that are
hands on.
If I can read a manual and pass the test, I don't deserve the cert.

I have been certified in the past on many platforms, hardware and software.
Everyone of them I could read a study guide over the weekend, take the test
on Monday and Viola! I am certified.

Any certification for PostgreSQL should be more like the RHCE or CISCO certs
where there are hands on Lab exercies that must be resolved.

I had a buddy that said (I have never taken it so I don't know) that
with the CISCO
cert, they will give you a lab, and arbitrarily break the config and
leave you
to fix it.

That is real life people. A cert should incorporate not only general
knowledge
that can be retrieved from the manual, but more important it should at least
contain some of the stuff that can't be retrieved from the manual.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake