CLP? Novell course 3072

[Christopher Lees]

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 12:00 +0100, Antonio Candito wrote:
> 
> I've been in contact with Novell regarding a course 3072 " Suse
> enterprise server 10 administration." which is a 5 day course which
> would pretty much break my budget (I'm pretty sure I cant afford it
> anyway, but in case a miracle happens) and am wondering if you have
> ever heard of it/taken the course and if it really gave you the tool
> to work in the Linux field out in the real world?
> 
> Its only a 5 day course and its $3300 which will entitle me to a CLP.
> Thoughts?

I have investigated similar courses at some local IT training centres.
IMHO they are very close to being scam operations. The ones local to me
have fees that high merely for a 3 day course on "Introduction to SUSE
Enterprise Linux", with the USEFUL courses only becoming available to
you after you have done a couple of these useless ones. The
advertisements all say "If you don't get a job in IT in 90 days, we'll
pay you $2000" - well, the fees suggest to me that NOBODY who does these
courses gets a job, and everyone is getting a $2000 refund.

I would be very careful before parting with my hard-earned.