Paper certs, or Paper degrees; Which is worse

Just elaborate, what you think is worse. Is it worse for someone to bombard their selves in test engines / brain ****, to get a cert? OR Is it worse for an Instructor to give students the actual test questions for a chapter exam in a well known curriculum?

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pitviper

MrNetTek wrote: »

You don't gain experience by wrecking equipment, you get fired.

I can’t tell you how many times we've tested the crap out of something in the lab only to have the unexpected happen when we rolled it out. Sometimes the best experience comes from breaking something “real world”.

That being said, yeah, if considering your credentials you should have “known better” it’s not a good place to be!

I know people that have studied their butts off for their CCNA and still couldn’t get passed the interview process. I think the days of landing a job without experience regardless of your cert level are loooooong gone.

tiersten

pitviper wrote: »

I can’t tell you how many times we’re tested the crap out of something in the lab only to have the unexpected happen when we rolled it out. Sometimes the best experience comes from breaking something “real world”.

I think you can learn the most when you've broken it. If it works then you don't touch it. If it breaks then you have to work out how to fix it, why it broke and how to prevent it in the future.

Netwurk

While paper certs and paper degrees are known to be problematic, the worst thing in the world is a paper CUT