How To Choose A Good Linux Institute?

This question arises in the mind of new people who are turning to Linux administration. So what you people will suggest? Go for a good institute. Right? So how you judge one institute is good and other is bad? If I am there in your place. I will consider below points before taking a decision to join an institute.
1. Faculty(first priority)
2. Infrastructure(second priority)
3. Institute background and capabilities(Third priority)

Faculty : Some points be noted about faculty
1. A good faculty is like a motivator, he always motivates you to explore new things. He just shows the path you have to explore.
2. A good faculty always try to share knowledge irrespective of the domain. I saw some instructors will not share all the knowledge they have. They just simply go according to the syllabus. So be aware of these type of instructors.
3. A good faculty will always try to mould his way of teaching depending on grasping power of the students.
4. A good faculty always give infomation about what type questions will come in interviews and exam. So that you can concentrate more on those topics.

So how to judge a faculty is good or not with out actually attending his classes?
Ans : Just go to that institute before joining and enquire the students of that institute about the instructors and their way of teaching. And if possible take a sample session with that faculty and observe all the above mentioned points. If most of the above qualities are not observed better not to join.

Infrastructure :
Some points to be noted about infrastructure
1. As we are learning job oriented courses please don't join in institutes where students with more than 30 per class. These type of institutes are more in Hyderabad. One thing i want to mention is if a class is containing some 150 students where is the type for faculty to care of your queries?

2. Make sure that before joining the institute about the hardware provided by them. In some institute there will be only one or two systems/devices per class so where is the time for you to practice? right so consider this one too.

3. Some institutes will not provide lab facility after the class timings. So what's the fun of just taking Linux classless with out practice. I say to my friends if you want to be a good Linux admin just remember three rules/principles.
a.Practice
b.Practice
c.Practice

So what is ideal Infrastructure?
Ans : A class should not contain more then 10 to 15 students and should provide at least one system for two students with 24 hours lab facility.

Institute : Some points to be noted about Institute.
1. Check with Students of an institute about the behaviour of non teaching faculty. Some of the institute people will behave differently before and after paying amount.

2.Check with students how is the placements and campus interviews.

3. As you people will know speaking good English will play important role in getting a job, some institutes will have one faculty who will teaches spoken English, corporate culture, personality development etc.

So you guys may feel that as "I am already a Linux admin why this non technical post is here." this is for you only. As you are an experienced Linux admin, many new comers will come to you and ask which institute is best. So at that time you can express your own ideas and these points to them before they take a decision. This is the intention of this post.

Please comment your experience either its small or big about your training institute where you learnt some admin courses:-)

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New RHCE Examination pattern

Recently from 1st May 2009 RHCE(Red Hat Certified Engineer) exam pattern has been changed. Some of the high lights are as follows.. The examination time has been reduced to 3.5 hours from 5.5 hours as it was previously

1. Previously, there will be two sessions one with 2.5hour(for basic troubleshooting) session and 3hours session(for server and security configurations)
2. But this time The content has be consolidated and reorganized into a single section.
3. Every thing will be installed and given along with Visualization, the candidate should complete that exam is one stretch that is 3.5hrs.
4. As you know RHCE5 SElinux is enabled so prepare along that lines.
5. Main thing to pass this exam is just practice practice practice
   

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Study Points for the RHCE Exam

Prerequisite skills for RHCT and RHCE

Candidates should possess the following skills, as they may be necessary in order to fulfill requirements of the RHCT and RHCE exams:

• use standard command line tools (e.g., ls, cp, mv, rm, tail, cat, etc.) to create, remove, view, and investigate files and directories
• use grep, sed, and awk to process text streams and files
• use a terminal-based text editor, such as vim or nano, to modify text files
• use input/output redirection
• understand basic principles of TCP/IP networking, including IP addresses, netmasks, and gateways for IPv4 and IPv6
• use su to switch user accounts
• use passwd to set passwords
• use tar, gzip, and bzip2
• configure an email client on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• use text and/or graphical browser to access HTTP/HTTPS URLs
• use lftp to access FTP URLs

RHCT skills

Troubleshooting and System Maintenance

RHCTs should be able to:

• boot systems into different run levels for troubleshooting and system maintenance
• diagnose and correct misconfigured networking
• diagnose and correct hostname resolution problems
• configure the X Window System and a desktop environment
• add new partitions, filesystems, and swap to existing systems
• use standard command-line tools to analyze problems and configure system

Installation and Configuration

RHCTs must be able to:

• perform network OS installation
• implement a custom partitioning scheme
• configure printing
• configure the scheduling of tasks using cron and at
• attach system to a network directory service, such as NIS or LDAP
• configure autofs
• add and manage users, groups, quotas, and File Access Control Lists
• configure filesystem permissions for collaboration
• install and update packages using rpm
• properly update the kernel package
• configure the system to update/install packages from remote repositories using yum or pup
• modify the system bootloader
• implement software RAID at install-time and run-time
• use /proc/sys and sysctl to modify and set kernel run-time parameters
• use scripting to automate system maintenance tasks
• configure NTP for time synchronization with a higher-stratum server

RHCE skills

Troubleshooting and System Maintenance

RHCEs must demonstrate the RHCT skills listed above, and should be able to:

• use the rescue environment provided by first installation CD
• diagnose and correct boot failures arising from bootloader, module, and filesystem errors
• diagnose and correct problems with network services (see Installation and Configuration below for a list of these services)
• add, remove, and resize logical volumes
• diagnose and correct networking services problems where SELinux contexts are interfering with proper operation.

Installation and Configuration

RHCEs must demonstrate the RHCT-level skills listed above, and they must be capable of configuring the following network services:

• HTTP/HTTPS
• SMB
• NFS
• FTP
• Web proxy
• SMTP
• IMAP, IMAPS, and POP3
• SSH
• DNS (caching name server, slave name server)
• NTP

For each of these services, RHCEs must be able to:

• install the packages needed to provide the service
• configure SELinux to support the service
• configure the service to start when the system is booted
• configure the service for basic operation
• Configure host-based and user-based security for the service

RHCEs must also be able to:

• configure hands-free installation using Kickstart
• implement logical volumes at install-time
• use iptables to implement packet filtering and/or NAT
• use PAM to implement user-level restrictions

Source:http://www.redhat.com/certification/rhce/prep_guide/

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