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INSIDE CERTIFICATION continued from page 25 virtualized SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 server that you will build yourself. Dynamic storage technology: In this course, you will perform configuration tasks with Dynamic Storage Technology and gain a greater understanding of how you would deploy it in your environment. Advanced configuration and installation of Open Enterprise Server 2: The installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 can be done with physical media, over a network connection, from a PXE menu and also can be automated. This course explores these options and gives you hands-on experience with them. Patches and upgrades: This course also offers you training on deploying patches and upgrades on your Linux servers. The procedure for doing so is different from what you are used to with NetWare and is essential for keeping your servers running reliably. Finding support for Open Enterprise Server 2: As with NetWare, Novell offers many avenues for getting support for your Linux servers, from online help to support forums to technical information documents. This course helps you navigate, locate and effectively use these sources of support. INTERFACE continued from page 33 keep pile because I’m finding that a lot of people don’t do that.” At XNET, there is no on-the-job training, as employees should initiate their own training programs, which goes back to Zards’ hiring practice. If employees find conferences or seminars in aspects of technology that interest them and it’s applicable to the company, Zards said he would support them all the way. “This goes back to how we hire for attitude,” Zards said. “We like getting employees with initiative, and we do a lot of pushing on the employee to pick which path they want to go into, and as long as it’s OK with us, we’ll support that path. We want people who have the initiative to ask the questions that push the envelope saying, ‘Hey, I want to learn this.’” Because of the nature of XNET, the typical job path of an employee is one where he or she can start out in an entry-level position and then progress to an engineer-level position. “Our philosophy is engineer a product or service so that you don’t have to administer it,” he said. “You don’t have to maintain it. In a nutshell, get people to a spot where they grow themselves out of their job and what they did maintains itself, and they can engineer new products and new services.” Each employee also needs good communication skills, as they deal with customers on a firsthand basis. In addition, Zards looks for candidates who have the right thought process and ask relevant questions when dealing with clients. But in the end, what puts a candidate far above the rest is the interest to further one’s knowledge, passion and attitude. “One of my favorite questions is, ‘What are you doing to continue your education?’” he said. “And if they don’t have an answer it’s a big minus. I want to hear people saying [they] go to a whole bunch of different Web sites and [are] constantly learning about new technology. I need people who are constantly tinkering, playing [and] learning. That legacy enterprise guy who had an unlimited budget, who was managing 100 servers is not the guy who’s going to be on his tiptoes at night learning about the latest technology that we’re going to be using three years down the road.” 8 – Lindsay Edmonds Wickman, lwickman@certmag.com The Objective of the NCE Enterprise Services Learning Path The ultimate purpose of this learning path is for you to be able to deploy Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 in your network. If you are a current CNE, Implementing Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 for Linux (Course 3089) helps you get comfortable with the Linux platform and shows you how Novell services function on Linux. The next course in the path, Deploying Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 for Linux (Course 3090), covers the advanced topics that complete your skill set migration from NetWare to SUSE Linux. You can then prove your skills and become NCE Enterprise Services certified by successfully completing Novell Exam 050-709, which is delivered as a Practicum test. 8 David Coughanour manages the course and test design and development team at Novell. He has nine years of experience designing and developing certification curriculum. You can contact him at editor@certmag.com. March 2008 CERTIFICATION MAGAZINE 39

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