[Asterisk-Users] Another Asterisk Certification

[Alexander Lopez]

Agreed, You have a strong point about the Monopoly aspect of the whole
thing. My .02 would be to have this be a Digium product. Heck, Mark DID
invent the thing and HE holds the copyright to it.  I have faith in Mark
and what he can do when he gets back from France.   

When I taught Sun and SCO classes (flame throwers down, please) it was
SCO corporate that provided the Certification, albeit outsourced but it
was from the same people that put out the OS.  In order to be an
instructor you needed to have taken the course or have 'tested out' and
had to have a score above 90 on your exam. (70 was passing). This allows
the certification program to grow as your instructors know the course
material and will be able to teach students with real world situations.
You would purchase the course materials at a 60% discount. For the 40%
they would handle certs, and testing at Sylvan. 

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Brian West
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:48 PM
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Another Asterisk Certification

> What started out as a good thing for the community has veared it ugly
> head and will come back to bite us in the ass. I give my respect to
the
> two companies that decided to put themselves 'out there' and attempted
> to bring 'real world' certifications of knowledge in an area that is
> unregulated, open, and currently has no measurement of how much one
> person has over another.

I never said this was a bad idea...  And I'm not against it at all if
people
wish to pay for it that's fine.  I don't however feel that Steve and the
boys should have a monopoly on it.  From what I was told you'll have to
go
to Steve and the boys to buy a franchise to become a trainer and pay ...
and
you think $3,275 USD was a lot... just think what they would charge to
become a dCap trainer?!?!?!?  That's one problem with this... ANY
company
should be able to signup to become dCap trainers.  The way the whole
thing
was presented was what the problem was... things were left out and over
looked that's what I had the most problem with.   Now to be honest if
you
were going to pay the 3k for the course you should walk out with a
something
like a Dell 420SC and a T1 card for that price.  I feel that would be
the
only way to really make it balance at that price.

bkw 



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