January 29, 2012, in category Certification comments No comments

Judy Katz, the Communcations Manager over at Prometric released a document named “The Top 10 IT Certification Myths. Addressing the top 10 Myths About IT Certification: A Counterpoint Position to Misinterpretation” (read here).  In case you aren’t aware, Prometric handles the IBM certifications and many other certifications for big name IT leaders. Let’s take a quick look at what she talks about here.

Myths:

Certifications are Vendor-centric

• While this is true, the negative outlook on this truth is unwarranted.  Most technologies are developed by specific vendors, and certain vendors are the best to oversee certification over the technology...

January 10, 2012, in category Certification comments No comments

If you are interested in any IBM certifications, I suggest you make your first stop here.  This is where you can find each certification exam, and dive into the specific categories that will be on the exam.  Some exams have preparation material, redbooks and even practice tests you can take (for a fee)  to ensure you know what you’re talking about before shelling out the full fee.

If you are looking for exam locations or to book an exam, use this link.  Here you can search through the exams, enter your location and book the exam itself.  Depending on location you would be looking at a ballpark of $200 USD.

The most important thing to remember with IBM certifications is that a certain level of real world knowledge is needed.  It is not purely a textbook exam...

January 4, 2012, in category Miscellaneous comments One comment

Here is a list of IBM Redbooks that I have found useful for my day to day operations.  Enjoy

Hardware Management Console V7 Handbook

AIX 5L Practical Performance Tools and Tuning Guide

IBM System p Advanced POWER Virtualization (PowerVM) Best Practices

NIM from A to Z in AIX 5L

IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility

Hope they help you like they have helped me

January 3, 2012, in category Miscellaneous comments No comments

AIX is the IBM operating system based on UNIX.  AIX is  specifically designed to work with IBM systems.  Advanced Interactive eXecutive supports multiple hardware platforms such as RS/6000, IBM Power, Power-PC, IBM System i, System/370 mainframes and PS/2 personal computers.

AIX, along with Mac OS X, Solaris and HP-UX is certified to The Open Group’s UNIX 03 standard.  Because it is UNIX based, it is programmed with C, and supports multiple shell environments and has the power to run Linux applications.