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As I stated earlier, the first 3 days of the Red Hat rapid track training went by in a blur. The amount of information covered was more than I believe a lot of people could absorb in the short time frame. There were a number of people at the training claiming that they were going to fail the certification exam at the end of the week.

Day 4.

The first half of the day was spent finishing the course material. In a strange twist, the stuff that we covered on the last day was some of the easiest items that we had covered all week. During the training I was able to pull out my laptop and answer a few emails that needed seeing to. While the material covered in the last day did not seem that important it is where I spent the second half of the day that made all the difference.

The first 3 days of the Red Hat Rapid Track course have been fairly intense. The main reason for this is the shear amount of data that is covered in three days. I have taken other training courses that take 2 days before you even get into the training material. That would not be the case when it comes to the Red Hat rapid track course.

For starters, I am taking the course at a local Red Hat approved training facility. The location is in a part of Atlanta that is probably convenient to the largest number of people around town. If you know the Atlanta area, then it is just north of I-285 off on GA-400. For me it is a bit of a trek, but all in all it has not been a bad commute. If I was doing my normal work hours and not 9 to 5 it would be even better. The facility is clean, and the coffee is much better than what we have at my regular office.

This week I am going to the Red Hat RHCE Rapid Track Course with RHCSA and RHCE Exams included. In the past I have been an RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer), but it expired a few years back. As the exam costs several hundred dollars, and it was not a priority, I never went and took the exam again. Now the opportunity has arisen for me not only to take the RHCE exam, but the week long Rapid Track course as well.

It should be interesting to see how the training stacks up to some of the other training that I have had. If it compares to the training that I had for JBoss, then I will be pleasantly surprised. Though, if I remember properly, that training did have areas where it could have been improved.

This is the course description as pulled off of the Red Hat website, at the time of me taking the class.

I just happened to be needing to get an update to Red Hat for work the other day, and saw a link to a technology update Red Hat was doing that day. Turns out it was all about Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 was finally being released. This is both good and bad for me at work as we are looking at doing a rather large system update, and RHEL is the primary choice.

Back to the show that came on at 2 P.M. Eastern time. Someone needs to teach the people at Red Hat how to put on a show. Bleh. Ok, it might not have been geared towards techies, but the lack of energy was very present. Normally on a big release like this, you want to go off guns blazing. This was more of a yawn. Don’t get me wrong, I am a big Red Hat fan. It is just that this presentation was geared for reporters and such, and not for people that were going to use it. Want to know the new features? go read the docs or release notes.