On Monday 18 Aug 2008, Amit Joshi wrote:
Hi, I have completed my engineering and seriously looking at System Administration as a career option. Can you tell me about the career prospects? Also, I am thinking about taking the RHCE exam. I am not able to spot much training institutes in Mumbai, CMS Computer Institute and Gates Training being the only ones I have been able to come up with. Can you please comment on the teaching quality of these computer institutes and such stuff? Looking forward to your replies.
Over the last year, I have interviewed several candidates from the various Mumbai training institutes conducting RHCE curriculum; not a single candidate scored more than 25% in a 40 question quiz, based on the RH033 book, that I conducted.
IMO, you would be better off buying some decent hardware, install CentOS (equiv. to RHEL), experiment with virtualization (to simulate multiple systems) and learn the RHCE curriculum on your own.