[ale] LPI Certification Study Group

Beddingfield, Allen allen at ua.edu
Tue Dec 17 14:54:15 EST 2013


Has anyone on the list done the BSDA cert?  I have considered it, but the events where the test are offered and where I am in attendance have never lined up.
Allen B.
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Allen Beddingfield
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Agreed. I have LPIC-1 (Which gives one or two other certs), an RHCE
from way back, and an RHCSA from last year. For my job interviews I
put "RHCE" and "LPIC-1" to show balance and am up front about the age
of the RHCE. However, since I haven't quit working on RH boxes for the
last dozen years or so I don't worry about my skills becoming out of
date.

Every once in a while I consider going for the BSD cert just for the
heck of it.  :)

Leam

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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> 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
>> Systems Engineer
>> The University of Alabama
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>> ________________________________________
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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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