In this first post, we will address first and foremost the importance of certifications in the IT world and respond to common questions, making clear they are and are NOT certified.
Common Questions: What is a certification? Why it certified?, Why they are so difficult
is it, If I do not certify, it means something terrible?
Many of these questions have crossed my mind of who starts at the "world" of certifications, as these sound interesting, who has assumed the it and the other
awakens envy, which generates even more
the interest of the people, which is very interesting to analyze.
What is a certification? We by, looking for a good definition (not as contrived and there in the IT world) we are in SAR with:
"Document in ensuring the truth of a fact" ( source) .. .. can not have a better definition, but now we have two questions: What paper? and "A fact?. The document will define (being redundant, which gives coherence to the definition) as a certificate, a letter is usually a certificate that contains reliable data. This certificate is issued by who is securing "the truth of a fact. "Now what we are talking fact?. There are two important parts in the definition of" fact ", the subject and what we want to make sure about this. It is important to remember that certification not only apply to individuals, if not that organizations, processes, etc. The "fact" certifications born of the need to identify and / or credit and / or guarantee, knowledge and / or ability and / or competition and / or standards and / or procedures. The combination we can do with AND or OR, can be very varied and interesting time, but this last depend on which issues the certificate (or rather who created the certification) is who is certifying the fact, then the subject accepts and acknowledges the certification and mechanism through which obtained. The mechanism for obtaining a certificate are usually evaluations (questionnaire type) assisted by a computer, online and safeguards anti-fraud, but also we can find the development of small projects that can not only measure knowledge (very comfortable for "memoriones") if the skills and competencies (practical experience) of a subject. This mechanism or through certification can be managed by an independent body such as Thomson-Prometric, this does not mean that Sun is not the creator of the certification, if not the great job that means the record date and time coordination, infrastructure and global coverage, Sun delegated a third party. And let this clear, when we look in detail each certification. To have a concrete and specific definition a certificate, you must stop at a certification in particular, we let slope when we address each of the Sun Microsystems Java certifications. That
companies are certified in their products or technologies además de Sun Microsystems?, estas son algunas: Cisco,Microsoft,Novell,Citrix,IBM,Oracle,3COM,AccessData,ACI,Adobe,American College,APC,Apple,ARE,Ariba,BICSI,Business Tests,Checkpoint,Cisco,Citrix,CIW,Computer Associates,CWNA,Dell,EC-Council,EMC,Enterasys Networks,Ericsson,Exam Express,Exin,Inc,Extreme Networks,FileMaker,Fortinet,Foundry Networks,Fujitsu,GMAT,Guidance Software,HDI,Hitachi,HP,Huawei,Hyperion Solutions,IBM,IISFA,ISACA,ISC,ISEB-ITIL,ISM,Juniper,Legato,Lotus,LPI,Lucent,MCAFEE,McDATA,Microsoft,Mile2Security,NCR ,Teradata,Network Appliance,Network Associates,Network General,Nokia,Nortel,Novell,Inc,OMG,Oracle,Patchlink,PMI,Polycom,Red Hat Riverstone SAIR SAS Institute SCO, SCP, SeeBeyond, SNIA, Sybase, Symantec, Telecommunication Industry Association, Teradata, Tibco Software Inc Trend TruSecure Unisys, Universitas 21 Global, Veritas, VMware. Why be certified? Motivations for a certification
are varied and consider many factors ranging from personal challenges to legal matters. In the case of certifications that apply to individuals we are, in many cases a great deal of support or recognition from the industry, ie have a certification opens doors and allows us to compete with certain advantage compared with those who do not.
Having a certification is to give our career credentials that allow us to ensure an entity (organization, company, etc) a certain level of knowledge and / or skills and earned a third party, and certainly this entity is also confident . We can make an analogy with the infrastructure that supports digital certificates, which issues a third party in which we and other trusts.
Why are so difficult is it? The truth is that in general we can say that all certifications are difficult, from the perspective of those facing for the first time for certification and has a knowledge deficit and / or skills. With this last we can say the following: the difficulty of a certification is directly related to the lack of knowledge and / or skills that we have with respect to the objectives (materials, content to be measured), which in practice means that for those actually has knowledge of the objectives measured by successfully passing a certification is trivial.
If I do not certify, it means something terrible? So if we do not spend a certificate, you do not know anything?, Before you answer this delicate question continue arguing the "maximum" subtly defined above. Back in time (short or long, see you: P) until the time for higher education (university, technical, etc) after a review (you choose the subject / field / material) that comments towards the end?: "was very difficult", "very easy", "more or less" ... now, the "advantaged" most likely course is that it always responded "very easy" and others (myself included) we split between " was very difficult! " and "more or less", recalling our own experience, we can then directly associate success with the level of knowledge? ... for sure. Now, consider other factors as, motivation, interests, environment, education, etc, etc ... but none of the above justify the failure to acquire the necessary knowledge to pass the exam.
Failure to pass a certification is the best way forward because we know exactly what our strengths and weaknesses, although we adopt a certificate, we also have feedback, ie we have an opportunity that no other.
That is NOT a
certification is also important to note that certification in any case is the level of a college degree or technical level, whether engineering or degree. The reason is quite obvious, if we want to a comparison of a certification level can only take an exam to pass a course (of many that have a college degree), however, not every review and any subject is not valid for comparison, we must find a course a level equivalent in content, complexity, maturity, quality, learning hours and a couple of etc ... the most likely end up with only a few subjects (subjects or classes) to qualify for this comparison, which plays significantly in favor of certification.
Why are they important? Let's start with an anecdote. After completing an interview work, which posited with a friend, it told me: "I think we should bring our mothers to job interviews because they are the only ones that could hold a meeting of more than 30 minutes arguing strongly that we the best, smartest, most astute and most beautiful of all the world. " Was absolutely right, the issue is that organizations require something a "little" more seriously.
As has been said certificacción give us credentials, which can be used in different contexts, allowing us to take advantage in that in many cases, for example to give a talk, make a "paper" and especially when find a new job. The mechanism classic recruitment consists of an interview (personal, psychological, etc) and technical evaluation to measure whether the candidate meets the job requirements. This last point is quite controversial in several respects, we start with a question: who drew up the technical evaluation was competent? case study this
(good blog). There is the problem, what happens if the assessment (either interview or "paper") is subjective? or poor technique? or perhaps poorly designed?. Let's say that certifications are to solve this problem, since someone already earned knowledge / skills of the candidate, then the organization only focus on assessing the candidate in the context of play and no work on technical aspects and also in many cases is not the business of the organization.
The process of IT recruitment is a major challenge for the HR area (HR certification is a
see here), particularly in the rapidly changing technologies and skills involved , knowledge and skills have to deal with these changes and still be aligned to business needs. Considering this, the certificates meet at least 50% of this problem, and to implement on their own "certification" as a great work, which often consume time that did not provide the business and require a lot of work to avoid the evils mentioned above. A chemical
is some help. Certifications
Sun Microsystems Java The following information has been removed from the site
Oficial Sun.
Sun certification program in Java technology is recognized by the industry, is a worldwide program that focuses on critical job roles in software development and enterprise architecture. These certifications, focusing on technology, knowledge and skills acquired while preparing for the certification are transportable from one company to another.
Sun's philosophy is that certification is central to the learning process as it provides validation of skill sets for specific job roles. Sun certification also offers a natural progression to support your career goals.
Sun clarifies that "the goal of Sun certification is to test a particular job role. Thus, to prepare for a certification exam we recommend Sun training and six to twelve months experience real. Sun does not say that taking the courses is guaranteed pass certification exams, however indicated that Sun training is an important component in certification preparation. "In future" posts "will discuss this in detail.
Benefits of Certification already presented the certificates as an aid when seeking employment, but is it true? look for yourself: Try
here or here
or here now all depends on the development IT where they lived or want to work, definitely there will be places where the certificates do not matter IT as the level is low or underdeveloped, however the advantages of having a valid certification and will always be a matter of time that certifications take courage, in fact, a couple of years ago speak of ISO-9000 was to talk about unknown, until funeral today are ISO-9000 certified. Let
Sun says about
here
In short:
1) To apply for new positions, salary increases, etc. (Source: Certification Magazine)
2) support of a big company (Source: Foote Partners and CIO Magazine)
3) Sun certifications are valid worldwide
4) Increased credibility colleagues or managers
5) Greater confidence about our knowledge or skills
6) Increased productivity
This would be the introduction to the world of certifications.
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