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Wow that's hilarious, first you accuse me of throwing in a bunch of nonsense, then you throw in nonsense so far and above anything I'd even think of as to be patently rediculous and insulting.

An admin needs to know how the OS handlews things, they don't need to know any layer below that. Just because the OSes you like leave that layer so wide open that you HAVE to know all the nitty gritty doesn't mean it's necessary for everybody.

As long as littly Johnny down the block is driving the tank in your backyard I don't care what qualifications he has. Back to a reasonable and intelligent parrallel, Johnny doesn't need to know how diesel engines work to drive the tank, he only needs to know how to drive the tank.

As far as your spiel on tanks is concerned, the military not only disagrees with you, but villigently so. When you drive a tank for the Military, they expect you to know it inside and out. How it functions, how to repair it, how to operate every station, etc. It's because it's an expensive piece of equipment that they depend on. It's called thoroughly training so that if something goes wrong, they have a clue what to do about it.

As regards a security issue, if an admin doesn't know what a worm is, how it attacks a network, and how to defend against it, there isn't much likelihood your network will be secure. If they don't understand the os, there isn't much hope they'll understand why cleaning up temp files and defragging the drive might affect system performance and stop memory errors. In short, if your admin knows nothing, your network will run like your admin knows nothing. Just like if you have walmart rebuild your transmission, it will run like walmart rebuilt it.

It's amazing the lengths that some of you hacks will go to to minimize the impact of such things. And most admins I've met wouldn't be allowed anywhere near my home pc. If you're going to work on my machine, you have to first have a clue what you're doing. Just because an ms exam study tells them what buttons to push doesn't mean they know what a trace route is or how to tell if someone is snooping on the system. Then again, most MS admins wouldn't know if the company were running something like PCanywhere Under the os along with a keystroke capture.

I'm sure you'd let little Johnny drive the tank if it had MS written on it. You have more confidence in MS than in common sense.