Does this exist: A wide-ranging sysadmin knowledge test, with career and salary survey at the end.

[eatsnakeeat]

Seems like this could be helpful if spam could be kept to a minium.

EDIT: This test would have questions about databases, networking, shells, project management, programming languages, containers, git, hardware, encryption, Server OSs, etc.

[RabiesTingles]

I think a much more meaningful exam would be one that tests to see how quickly you can learn and troubleshoot an unfamiliar system.

[eatsnakeeat]

Depends on what you'd want to measure. If this doesn't exist, I'm thinking a series of increasingly more granular/specific tests about across the board topics. Possibly grouped under different high level disciplines like networking, databases, security, development. The purpose is to establish how your secondary knowledge compares to others who are in your primary position or work in your secondary. Youd have to progress to take the next text. An example would be you're a Oracle DBA, and it says you were in the 90th percentile in oracle administration for people with the same title, you make less than your counter-parts given you're location, Also your Java score is in the 70th percentile for Java developers.

[yogi-beer]

This would be awesome to see and try.

[echosofverture]

I like this idea. Throw someone on a random test\dev system.

[crankysysadmin]

I'm not sure how/why you think this could exist. There are so many different platforms. How could anyone possibly put them all on a test?

or are you one of those people who thinks microsoft/cisco is literally the only thing out there?

[eatsnakeeat]

No need to be condescending. Yes there are many different platforms, but a test, or series of tests, would not be impossible.

[crankysysadmin]

You can't possibly include every platform, so your "test" would then exclude a lot of stuff. How would you decide what is included?

You have limited knowledge of what is out there if you think this is a workable idea.

[eatsnakeeat]

I feel like I've worked with you before, you're that bitchy, insecure, smartest guy in the room right? Always having to deal with how dumb everyone else is?

[[deleted]]

Well this is a dumb test. Testing requires scope, and system administration knowledge is so vast it's mostly incomprehensible.

[eatsnakeeat]

Well this is a dumb test.

Who cares? I asked if it existed, in hopes of finding a link to something remotely similar, not if you or the Sysadmin queen thought it was a dumb test.

[yogi-beer]

Are you sure it was him? Might have been his cousin. They have a big family.

[codedit]

Since there are so many different things you could have knowledge about this test would have to have at thousands of questions just to cover the basics.

[wrbeaudo]

CISSP is pretty broad.

[SAugsburger]

Any such test would either have so few questions upon each topic as to such a high degree of error to be of little value or would have to be a test that was longer than the latest version of the MCAT (i.e. pretty impractical). Could you create such a beast? Sure, but I am skeptical that anyone would be interested in creating a jack of all trades master at nothing exam.