Kapil's Blog

Many of the regular technical demos hosted by Clemson University OSUM Club, ends with the same question from students.  "Can we have such sessions on a weekly basis? " This led me to the thought of conducting a "Certification Drive" at Clemson University Campus in summer. This program was mainly aimed at propagating the features of Sun Academic Initiative (SAI), as well as helping the students to become Sun Certified Professionals. We commenced this program on 14th May 2009. We have two one-hour sessions every week and each session covers one module in SAI's curriculum for Sun Certified Solaris Associate (SCSAS) Certification. I have divided the entire curriculum for SCSAS certification curriculum into 15 modules, and each module will be covered in a day. A small presentation was prepared for each module, based on the SAI course and was explained to the class. The response was overwhelming and many of the students were interested in this approach. I even included some quizzes in the class sessions so as to make it interactive. Two exams were also included in the course. The first one is the e-Practice Exam for the Sun Certified Solaris Associate (WGS-PREX-S105C), which the students need to take online from SAI website , and the second one was custom built by myself, based on the curriculum for SCSAS.
We have received queries from professors and students whether we can conduct such sessions on Java, and Solaris in the next fall semester. I strongly encourage conducting such sessions, as I feel that a discussion session in a class with a specific agenda will be comfortable for the students to plan and go through the SAI web courses.