See title; I’m considering it, but the courses bundles are expensive
It depends on what you’re getting it for and why. Also, never pay for training and certifications, especially the pricey ones. It should be your employer paying for it.
For sure, my company is willing to pay for it, I wouldn’t be paying for it myself.
I just don’t want to work with windows anymore, and every job I get is windows centric; therefore I get a small amount of linux experience on my resume and the cycle continues. I’m contemplating getting the RHCSA and the RHCSE in order to get linux-centric roles (because although I’m down to take a cut in pay and settle for a junior position, most of the jobs available seem to be for senior or mid-level positions).
Have you considered the cheaper LFCS (Linux Foundation Certified Sysadmin) instead? It might be easier for the company to “swallow” and it’s more general Linux instead of mainly Red Hat based. I took it this year and it’s pretty standard System Administrator stuff.
Like some other replies said, it probably won’t get you a job by itself. But it may get you the interview if it’s the distinguishing factor between you and an equivalent candidate.
I got RHCSA (and later RHCE), and I think they were worthwhile. On cost, I would not go out of pocket for the Red Hat training if that’s the bundle you’re referring to. That stuff is priced for people that are being funded by their companies. Personally, I did self-study using Sander van Vugt’s materials. He has both books and videos for RHCSA, depending on your learning style. I found them to be excellent preparation for the exam.
My employer paid for a course heavily based on it (No cert, but condensed and more useful), and for my time. One tutor and two pupils over a week.
I found it moderately interesting, and slightly useful. It was the most relevant training available for administrating our (then) CentOS 5/6/7 servers. There were bits that didn’t transfer across to CentOS, mostly the proprietary RHEL software aspects which we largely skipped. There was much that was useful for any linux distro.
Highlight for me was properly learning awk during it - I still use that every day.
Is the RHCSA worth it?
I don’t know. What’s the RHCSA? Let’s check the description. Maybe they’ll explain.
See title
Hmm… :/
Don’t know why you are being voted down, you are 100% correct. RTLAAU.
