[rescue] Do you remember when? Security software.....

[Andrew Weiss]

On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 03:35 PM, Kevin wrote:

> CompTia is charging for that stuff in a round about way
> now.  I got the A+ back in 1997, and they give me all
> the extra crap.  A friend of mine just took the exams
> the other day.  They sent him his cert but the wallet
> card was paper.  Within the package was a form he could
> fill out and send in (along with a decent sum of cash)
> to be a member of the CompTia Professionals Group.  If
> he joined that he would then get an A+ pin and a
> plastic wallet card :)  What a bunch of bullshit the
> certification industry has become.
>
That's the suit side of the cert industry... actually for instance the 
MCSE certification was quite laughable in the NT 4 days... it is not 
nearly as laughable today... the reason being the night and day 
difference in the difficulty to obtain it.  I think it's about 8 tests 
now... and a lot of Active Directory stuff which basically eliminated 
the paper MCSE morons overnight... and boy was there complaining.  If 
someone sticks through it I respect that much... but it must still be 
taken in context with the rest of the resume and how the person comes 
off.

Andrew