[ale] LPI Certification Study Group

[Beddingfield, Allen]

The LPI stuff expires after a few years, too.  It is easy enough to extend the RHCE, though.  You can just go and take one of the advanced courses (performance tuning, deployment, etc...) and pass that test - it extends your RHCE.  You can also take the rapid track course for the new version, and just retake the RHCE exam on that version.  That's probably the approach I will go with, so I get the overview of "what's new" in the newer version.  If you are in Europe or an SAP shop, the SUSE CLP/CLE would be relevant. Or if you are a shop like ours, where we just prefer SUSE.
The VMware VCP is also a good one to look into.  Of course, they require you to take their install/manage/configure class to get the cert.

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Allen Beddingfield
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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Jim Kinney [jim.kinney at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 1:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [ale] LPI Certification Study Group

I agree. LPIC is a very Debian-slanted certification process. Of course, the RHCE/RHSA/RH?? is only for RedHat Enterprise.

Note: A RHCE expires every several years. Makes sense as they release a new major version and many things change.

If LPIC hasn't updated their question bank to include modern processes' and procedures, that undermines the relevance of the certification. That's sad as they are/were the only Linux certification other than RHCE with traction.


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu<mailto:allen at ua.edu>> wrote:
I have LPIC-1 and LPIC-2, the O'Reilly Book is about the best out there.  It doesn't matter that it is dated, the test is WAY dated.  They are still asking about things that are way obsolete....  honestly, I don't think they have changed their question pool in a decade.
Another thing to keep in mind - while they claim to be distro independent, you had better know Debian.  It is HEAVILY biased toward the Debuntu way of doing things.
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Allen Beddingfield
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The University of Alabama

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Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 11:17 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] LPI Certification Study Group

At the Dec ALE meeting, interest in a group to learn Linux was shown.
I'd like to help someone organize that effort.

Online searching found guides from 2008, 2005 and 2003, so those seem a little
dated.

Wikibooks has https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LPI_Linux_Certification.

Perhaps the O'Reilly book, _LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell_, 3rd Addition
is a reasonable text for this effort. It is from 2010, so still a little dated.

Anyway, some ideas to get organized, create artifacts, and have discussion
groups would be great!
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