Chapter 1: What is the purpose of the NetApp NCIE certification?
This week on the Tech on Tap podcast, we bring in some of the NetApp A-Team who are in town writing up the new NCIE certification for NetApp.
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Welcome to the Tech on Tap podcast with Justin Parisi. Hello and welcome to the Tech On Tap podcast. My name is Justin Parisi and I am a dancing fool. I've been dancing to the music today. It's a nice day. On the phone with me today is Glenn Sizemore. I didn't give you an adjective. I think of a good adjective. The consequential Glenn Sizemore. I don't want to call you consequential.
You're not inconsequential. You're the opposite of consequential.
I think I would have been more comfortable with being inconsequential than being consequential.
Well, I guess, I mean, if I called you inconsequential, then, you know, that would be not so nice. So I'm trying to do the reverse, which probably isn't even a word. I don't care. I'm using it.
Okay. As someone who believes that irregardless is a word, I support this.
You know, we live in a world of alternate facts as well as alternate words. So consequential it is. All right, so in the studio with us today, we actually kicked Glenn out of the studio. He's actually in the office today, but because we're so crowded in the studio, we made sure he sat at his desk in solitude there. We have lots of members of the A-team, the NetApp A-team here today.
So we're going to go around the room and introduce those guys, and then later on we're going to talk about why they're in town, which is the development of the NCIE exams. So starting on my left here, Mr. Rory McBride. Hi, Rory. Hello, hello. How are we doing? Doing great. So Rory, tell us a little bit about yourself and where you are from and how we can reach you on social media.
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Chapter 2: Who are the members of the NetApp A-Team featured in this episode?
Which is throwing off all kinds of stuff. See, I always thought you were like this hip-hop mogul that was just like moonlighting as an IT guy. No. But now I know the truth. You're just a funeral planner.
Funeral planner with DJs in it. Before we...
The best kind of funerals are funerals with music. We've done our introductions. We've talked about who we are and who we represent. So let's talk a little bit about why we're here today. So, you know, like Rory said, he's in town to work on the exams that NetApp does. So let's talk a little bit about what these exams are and how people can get a hold of them.
Who would like to start off with that?
I could start out. So NetApp has a certification team. And we're here as subject matter experts to help on the exam.
And it's really good to know that, you know, NetApp puts a lot of resources and time and, you know, toward the certification process to make sure that, you know, people can go get certified and show to their companies and in the field and professionally that they are qualified on NetApp. So we are here today for the NCIE, that's the professional certification.
But I also have worked on the NCDA exam and then the NCIE SAN exam. Okay.
So let's talk about certifications in general. So what sort of benefits do I get out of being certified for NetApp or anything in particular? So what do I get out of that by getting a certification?
Well, certification as a whole would help hopefully progress your career. It should show the amount of effort that you've put in to learn a technology. It standardizes people across the board. So you can say, hey, this person knows about, in our case today, data protection. Or it could be they know about SAN, or they know about how to set up a switch, or VMware, or whatever.
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Chapter 3: What is the process of creating a NetApp certification exam?
Let me sit the CCIE. Can I pass it? I don't know. Let's find out. And I will absolutely agree that trick questions are not something that I see on our tests.
And NetApp takes it very seriously. And, again, we should have given a shout-out here. We'll give one to Greg Hyman, who runs the certification. And back to the investment, you know, hiring the consultants who know how to do the statistics. They have flown us all in here. We're already from England and the U.K. And they cover our hotel for the week and, you know, put us up.
And we dedicate the time to do this. But NetApp makes the investment with their own employees. and make sure that they have a valid and fair exam that represents NetApp.
Yeah, it's good to get a nice sprinkling of customers and, you know, field guys as well as internal employees to kind of vet this exam because that really does touch on who actually takes it.
You know, speaking of certifications, it just occurred to me, we should probably talk about Flex Groups.
Ah, yes! You read my mind.
So tell me about this flex group. We can't discuss the questions we wrote, but Rari and I each decided to write a question related to flex groups with the DP exam. And you'll have to take the exam and read the TR on it.
Yeah, what TR is that, Scott? Is it 4557? 4571 also for the best practices.
No, we didn't follow those. I mean, sorry. What? No, I mean, that's half the problem as well when you're writing a question. You come up with a great idea, but then you've actually got to find a reference to back it up. You know the answer. You know you're correct. But then you have to spend 20 minutes, half an hour trying to find a way that's legally going to back that question up.
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Chapter 4: What benefits do certifications provide for IT professionals?
I thought it was just like a weekly thing we did now.
Well, the way I see it, since we use flex group to balance our load across multiple nodes of a cluster, I use flex group to balance the topic across multiple podcasts. Well, Mike drop, Mike drop done.
Anyway, you broke me. I'm done. You're good.
All right. Excellent. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. All right, NetApp A-Team, Rory McBride, Scott Gelb, and Mario Stephen, or Stephen Mario Cortez. Thank you all for joining us today. If we wanted to get in touch with you again, what are your Twitter handles, Rory? McBride underscore Rory. Scott? Scotty Gelb. And Stephen?
MSC Productions.
All right, MSC Productions. For funerals and bar mitzvahs. For funerals and bar mitzvahs, contact Mario. And for brises. Okay. On that note. Cut. No, that's staying in there. Mickey cats actually. Interesting you used the word cut. Oh, God. Anyway. All right, that music tells me it's time to go.
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On behalf of the entire Tech On Tap podcast team and the NetApp A team, which you can follow on Twitter at NetApp A team, thanks for listening. Hey, they're all taking selfies. You guys are lame. Yo.
Oh, yeah. Very similar to how we doctor desktop Chris Gephardt, regardless if he likes it or not. Yeah. Yeah, Mario, you are a hip-hop mogul, whether you like it or not. You are. You are now MC Cortez. Oh, yeah.
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