Top Linux Certifications To Get in 2020

are you ready for IT do you want to jump into the Linux world then a Linux certification might be for you if you've never worked in IT or maybe you're stuck on the service - let's take a look at the Linux certifications today and what you can get in 2020 a Linux start will help separate you from the rest of the field so let's take a look of Linux certifications you can get in 2020 so Who am I well my name is Jimmy I have over 12 years of IT experience I've worked for you the US government as a contractor all the way to publicly traded companies I earn my Linux Flush certification in 2004 you can see my Linux verification info right here I have a degree in UNIX administration I earned in 2005 so I've been around Linux for many years love Linux used many different Linux distributions and we're gonna ask a question today why do you want to get certified in Linux in 2020 so why get certified and experienced Linux administrator can make anywhere between seventy six thousand and eighty thousand dollars a year another thing to realize is that Linux web servers run about ninety six point three percent of the top of one million web servers on the internet that's out of the whole Internet the top 1 million of those servers 96.3% or running Linux instead of working on end users primarily in a mac environment or a Windows environment you can work on servers cloud servers web servers just about any kind of servers most of them run Linux so what are you gonna do you're gonna make yourself more valuable you're gonna stand out from the crowd you're gonna get respect from other people in IT certs are one of the best ways to learn a particular skill to be able to apply it to be able to show it in advancing your career you'll be able to take your knowledge in a step-by-step systematic way and prove to yourself and to others that you know your stuff expect to spend anywhere between 3 to 6 months working on a particular certification I may even take you a year to prepare for these certs especially if you have zero experience so one of the first things we want to look at is vendor certifications and vendor-neutral certifications do you want to specialize in one particular flavor of Linux do you want to be the master of that particular Linux distribution understand that Linux has many different flavors or something called distributions distros there's literally hundreds of these different distributions out there you'll have a bun to Red Hat Debian Arch just to name a few do you want to stick to one or learn a little bit about all of them my suggestion is if you already worked for a company and they already use the particular distro and you want to learn that or learn more about it go ahead and start looking into that maybe already have a vendor neutral certification you want to step it up then you want to look at probably one of the vendor certifications however if you're just starting out and you've just learning Linux for the very first time I would strongly suggest that you stick with vendor neutral certifications it lets you get a flavor of all of what Linux has to offer so what are some of the major vendor certifications out there this you can get one of them is the Red Hat certified system administrator one that I'm very much interested in Red Hat has been around since 1993 and they kind of converted over into Red Hat Enterprise Linux in about the year 2000 and the number one server company when it comes to Linux it's the main distribution that's gonna be running on servers out there in Linux environments it is a very hard test it's gonna cost you about $400 to take it's gonna take you about two and a half hours and you're gonna have to take it in person the next certification that you can get is gonna be the SU certified administrator if soos has been around since about 1994 you may have heard open soos one of the most popular distros using soos today very popular and it's gonna cost you about a hundred and forty nine dollars to take this test you have about 90 minutes for the test and you can take a remote proctored remote Proctor means that you have a webcam looking at you while you take the test make sure you're not cheating and doing anything incorrectly there but you can take it from the comforter at home no matter what country you live in if you have a testing center hundreds of miles away it makes it a lot better option to be able to take something online and the last vendor certification that you can get is Oracle Oracle offers Oracle Linux OCA and OCP Oracle has been around since about 1977 and they're known for their versions of sequel Java you may have heard of OpenOffice they own OpenOffice if you take this certification it's gonna be two hundred and forty five dollars you're gonna have about a hundred and fifty minutes to take this test and you have to take in person unless your company specifically uses these versions of Oracle you may want to stay clear of this one so next you're gonna have vendor neutral certifications there are several different companies that you can use to get a vendor neutral Linux servic a ssin and this is where if you don't know exactly which distribution or you just want to kind of major on all of them this is one that I would suggest to go ahead and pick and be able to learn all the different flavors and all the things that they share and maybe a little bit where one sticks out over another so the first vendor neutral certification on this list and it's really here just because it's the most popular one out there and you've may have heard it it's gonna be the Linux plus certification by CompTIA CompTIA has been around since 1982 and they're really known for what they called a Trinity the three and if you're going into IT you'll probably hear about these combinations of IT certifications you have your a plus your network plus and security plus I have the first two not the last one I have a plus and the network plus back in early 2000s the A+ is gonna be by far their most popular certifications probably if you're getting in I teased a lot of people are you're gonna hear about a plus a plus this a plus of that a plus is primarily Hardware has some software part of the tests also but it's been a popular entry-level IT certification for a long time so the Linux plus is probably the most popular certification out there it's morphed over the years I took mine over 15 years ago and it had merged with another one where you could actually get two certifications at once they had T test that you gotta take it another time and now they're back down to just one test you could take and if you're gonna take that test it's gonna cost you three hundred and $19 90 minutes as long as you'll have on the test and you're gonna have to take it in person typically at a Pearson VUE testing center the next one I want to mention is the Linux Foundation certified system administrator the Linux Foundation was organized in the year 2000 and it's a nonprofit organization and for the Linux Foundation their main claim to fame is that it is the foundation started by Linus Torvalds Linus Torvalds is the one that gave name to Linux Linus Linux that's where the name came from and he is involved in the Linux kernel project if you don't know about the Linux kernel project they are writing literally millions of lines of codes a year adding to the Linux kernel that's a Microsoft NT kernel that is slowly kind of getting out of date over the years to be honest with you but with a Linux kernel it is at a full speed fast pace constantly updating constantly moving with the times and Linus Torvalds is on the forefront and approves all changes with the Linux kernel so if you're gonna take the Linux Foundation system administrator certification test it's gonna cost about $300 you're gonna have two hours to complete the test and it's gonna be an online proctored test again you can take this from the comfort of your own home just make sure you have a webcam and the third certification on this list is going to be the linux professional institute Linux administrator certification the linux professional institute was founded in 1999 and it's a nonprofit organization for the Advancement of Linna if you take this test you'll have 90 minutes to complete the test but you're gonna have to take two separate exams each of these exams is gonna cost $200 a piece getting this certification it's gonna cost you $400 and you're gonna have to take this in person at a testing center last certification on this list is gonna be the giac certified UNIX system administrator this one is technically not going to be Linux it's gonna be UNIX they're very similar UNIX is basically the grandfather of Linux today we from the global information assurance certification it started in 1999 formed out of the SANS Institute the SANS Institute and the giac is known for its security security ops pentesting type exams this is gonna be a great exam if you want to get into security and you have the money the certification test is gonna be one thousand nine hundred ninety nine dollars but it does come with two practice exams you can take before the actual test the test is gonna take two hours but you have to take it in person at a testing center so if I had to start over my career today what would I choose well back in 2004 when I took my exam it was a lifetime certification meaning that I'll have this certification for the rest of my life I do not have to renew it there's no additional tests no additional fees no nothing and I always will be Linux plus certified so in 2004 that would have been the best option for you out there is to take a test that did not expire however there's practically no certification test that you can do that for anymore these companies they need to renew you though in 2020 what would I pick I would pick the Linux Foundation certified system administrator certification test if I had to start over and you two I would suggest that you look at the Linux Foundation test also if you look down in my scription you can get a link to the training section of the Linux Foundation and from there if you if you're brand new to Linux you can go ahead and take a free course to learn the basics of Linux if you're ready to move on beyond there you can have advanced training and you can have a certification test but right on their website become a Linux Foundation certified system administrator so are you ready for a change in your life's course then get started today learn that Linux go now sign up take your free course take your certification take it now hey nerds you can check out my website or click on this video to learn more about Linux make sure you hit that like button comment and subscribe and don't stop being nerdy thank you

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Length: 11min 14sec (674 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 20 2020