[TriLUG] Red Hat System Admin class

[Marty Ferguson]

I beg to differ, Nick Goldwater.

Having taught the Red Hat courses and worked as an RHCX
(Red Hat Certified Examiner) I can assure you that Red Hat Software
has a mutual interest with all successful examinees (i.e., RHCE's that
that earned their cert) to maintain confidentiality about the content of
the examination.  No instructor is permitted to "teach the test" and each
successful RHCE candidate can be assured that the certificate they
hold is proof of their knowledge and aptitude.  

If the contents of the exam were openly discussed and posted on blogs,
the value of the certification would become significantly debased  through
the result of awarding the RHCE to (some percentage of) examinees who 
invested no more effort in training and test preparation than to rehearse 
the solutions to the hands-on portion of the exam.

There is no doubt in my mind that the requirement of confidentiality is of 
utmost importance in maintaining the credibility of the certification and the
social contract between RHCE's, employers, and Red Hat Software.

Marty Ferguson



---- Nick Goldwater <trilug at dogstar1.com> wrote: 
> ----- "James Olin Oden" <james.oden at gmail.com> wrote:
> | Personally, I think the whole non-disclosure is a bit annoying, but
> | its actually standard practice for people that peddle their classes
> | to
> | others so that someone can't take their material and teach the same
> | stuff.
> 
> The RedHat non-disclosure agreement shields them from any test related criticism because in order to do so it requires divulging information covered by the said agreement.
> Nick
> 
> | 
> | I knew you weren't trying anything shady, I just had to explain why I
> | couldn't be as kind as I would have liked to have been.
> | 
> | Cheers...james
> | 
> | On 11/2/07, Glenn Starling <GJStarling at charter.net> wrote:
> | > I haven't taken any tests, so I didn't sign any agreement (yet)
> | > regarding that.  I know the book is copyrighted and you can't
> | photocopy
> | > it, but I haven't previously heard any restrictions on what one can
> | do
> | > with the book.  Sorry about an improper question.  I definitely
> | wasn't
> | > trying to do anything that wasn't OK.
> | >
> | > -- Glenn
> | >
> | >
> | > On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 14:49 -0400, James Olin Oden wrote:
> | > > who took the class signed a non-disclosure
> | > > agreement that  in short said you won't talk about the test and
> | you
> | > > won't share the book.  That said, if you look at the list of
> | things
> | > > that they say you need to know (i.e.
> | >
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