CLP Practicum/Future of Certs

Don't know if this is the most appropriate forum to ask, but I will 
anyway.

Has anyone completed the practicum for CLP?  If so, how was the 
difficulty level?  I've had instructors tell me it's VERY VERY hard. ?

Does anyone know Novell's plans for certifications?  Will we see a 
blending of CNE and CLP/CLE at some point?

Like all certifications is you know what is being tested on it is easy. 
If you don't it is difficult. The advantage of practical testing is that 
you have man pages and command line help available to you. Easy and 
difficult is subjective. I have never failed a practical exam yet, touch 
wood.

As to any merger of CNE and CLP/CLE who knows, I would expect so but 
that is for Novell to decide and announce.
-- 
Andrew Mallett [CNI SysOp]

AS Andrew says difficult is in the eyes of the beholder.  No it is not
a cake walk either unless you have 4+ years of linux experience it will
be easier for you.

As far as the merging of certs, I expect the certifications to follow
the product offerings.  when NetWare goes virtual, I expect the cert
tests to mirror this change.  Similar to when NetWare moved from
Novonyx to Apache and iManager.  it was seen in the cert tests.

-- 
Timothy Leerhoff

oconnor_s@hotmail.com wrote:
> Don't know if this is the most appropriate forum to ask, but I will 
> anyway.
> 
> Has anyone completed the practicum for CLP?  If so, how was the 
> difficulty level?  I've had instructors tell me it's VERY VERY hard. ?
> 
> Does anyone know Novell's plans for certifications?  Will we see a 
> blending of CNE and CLP/CLE at some point?
> 
> 
I think that the CNE and CNA exams will eventually fade away when 
NetWare goes virtual. Novell is already retiring certain courses but 
state that the CNE certification is not retired .... ... (yet)
http://www.novell.com/training/certinfo/retire5.html

Any practical exam could be considered hard especially if you don't have 
  a whole lot of practical experience with the product. The best way you 
can study for a practical exam is to work with the product and/or 
practice all the exercises/scenarios until it becomes 2nd nature.

Is the CLP exam hard? As mentioned by Timothy already, it all depends. I 
failed it the first time I tried but scored high the second time I 
tried, the exam made me realize how much I had to practice the 
scenarios. Once I did that and became familiar with SLES the exam was a 
breeze.

Hello:

I,m working in the goverment, we have got under 1200 servers running 
Netware 5.1, Netware6, and 6.5.
Now novell is selling us OES linux,, i,m current CNE,CDE,MCNE ....
But now i,m studying the CLP, but what happend whit OES linux products 
(edir,Ifolder,Netstorage,Nss....)

Any future for the CNE? OES certifications?¿