Security Basics: RE: Security Certs

["Chris Berry" <compjma () hotmail com>]

> From: "David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>
> > ....  To me they represent a minimum level of knowledge about a
> > subject, so that for example, if the person is an MCSE and I
> > ask them an active directory question, they shouldn't say
> > "active what?", though it's no guarantee they'll actually know
> > the right answer.
>
>   A few years back, I interviewed an MCSE for a network engineer
> position.  Our environment was strictly 100-BaseT/Cat-5, so one
> didn't absolutely *need* to know anything else, but he was coming
> from working (as a civilian contractor, as I recall) on some Air
> Force base where they had a mix of 10-Base2 (co-ax) and UTP at
> 10 and 100 Mbps.
>   So between having apparently passed the Networking Fundamentals
> requirement, and working daily with the mix, I figured he ought
> to be able to name at least *one* characteristic difference between
> 10-Base2 co-ax and 10/100 Cat-5.  I would have taken almost any one.
>   He couldn't, and that was one of two reasons he didn't get the
> job.  (The other was that he considered himself too valuable as a
> "network designer" to crawl under a desk to plug in a cable....)
>
> David Gillett
LOL, yeah that can happen.  I wouldn't hire someone based on their cert, but 
I prefer to interview people who have them (and have experience).  I have an 
eight page verbal test I give candidates, and it consistently amazes me how 
many easy questions people miss.  I have yet to speak to anyone who could 
tell me how the DHCP process works beyond just "it automatically assigns 
addresses".  Not one of them has been able to give me DORA or ROSA, and this 
was for a position listed as Network Administrator.
Chris Berry
compjma () hotmail com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

"We are successful when our bosses wonder what it is we do all day."  -- Tim 
Mullen
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