{"id":1161,"date":"2011-02-23T08:53:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T16:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2011-02-24T13:45:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T21:45:12","slug":"bonus-getting-novell-cla-automatically-awards-novell-data-center-technical-specialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Bonus!  Getting Novell CLA automatically awards Novell Data Center Technical Specialist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=1137\">I recently earned Novell Certified Linux Administrator (CLA)<\/a>.\u00a0 (Note that I passed the 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comptia.org\/certifications\/listed\/linux.aspx\">CompTIA Linux+<\/a> exams, then forwarded these to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lpi.org\/\">LPI<\/a> to get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lpi.org\/eng\/certification\/the_lpic_program\/lpic_1\">LPIC-1<\/a>, and then forwarded LPIC-1 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.novell.com\/training\/certinfo\/cla\/\">Novell<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that earning Novell CLA, also qualifies you for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.novell.com\/partners\/solution\/benefits.html\">Novell Data Center Technical Specialist (DCTS)<\/a>!\u00a0 This is one of the specializations for solution providers and system integrators in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.novell.com\/partners\/solution\/\">Novell&#8217;s PartnerNet<\/a>.\u00a0 So by passing the 2 CompTIA Linux+ exams, you qualify for <strong>FOUR<\/strong> certifications &#8211; Linux+, LPIC-1, Novell CLA, and Novell DCTS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/GregoryPorter_DCTS_ECR.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1157\" title=\"dcts\" src=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dcts.jpg\" alt=\"dcts\" width=\"120\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dcts.jpg 200w, https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dcts-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently earned Novell Certified Linux Administrator (CLA).\u00a0 (Note that I passed the 2 CompTIA Linux+ exams, then forwarded these to LPI to get LPIC-1, and then forwarded LPIC-1 to Novell.) Turns out that earning Novell CLA, also qualifies you&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=1161\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}