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How to verify certifications?
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One of the applicants for a job at my company has listed that he has received MCP, MCTS: SQL, AND MCITP: DBA certifications. Is there any way to check if this is true?
Thanks for any help!
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You could ask him for copies of them.
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Realistically I wouldn't worry about checking. I'd be much more worried about whether or not he knows his stuff. There are lots of morons walking around with a book of legit certifications, and there are lots of really smart, excellent people who don't have any certs.
If his certs are fake, then that's a problem. If he has the certs but can't do the work, that problem is just as big.
Do you know any other DBAs that you trust who could interview him?
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just ask him to do an assignment
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I never understand why people think that certification = competence. I've interviewed Oracle Certified Professionals (Database Admins) who wouldn't know a relational database from an Excel spreadsheet.
I presume that this person is applying for a DBA position?
Get them to answer a few technical problems - ten should be enough.
Get them to draw the architecture of SQL Server on a whiteboard.
Get them to explain how to backup the instance, one database, a few databases, how to restore it.
Ask them about SQL Server security, integration with AD.
Get them to code some T-SQL.
Stupidly simple question : ask them what a DBA is.
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