[warrenm]

It really depends on the reason to get a specific cert

I carry a few certs for work related to the products I most heavily work with because they:

- help ensure our partner status with those vendors

- give customers the warm fuzzies that our people actually know what they are talking about (at least to some basic level)

Experience trumps certification every day of the week ... except when it does not - breaking into a new career path can be one of those times

Most certs show you know enough basic material to pass a moderately-low bar of competency (yes, some are far harder and/or indicate a relatively-high bar of competency ... but the initial Red Hat certs are not those))