Ubuntu + LPI question

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 08 April 2006 18:47, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is a question mostly for Alan McKinnon who seems to be the LPI
> guy here. I'm thinking of going for the Ubuntu LPI certfication,
> and I'd like to learn more about it.
>
> Will it be at a similar level as the current Junior certificate or
> the Intermediat one? When will it be available? How could I
> prepare?

The Ubuntu exam is pitched at the same level as the Junior cert, and 
it's called Ubuntu 103. To get the certificate you'll have to pass 
both LPI exams (101 and 102) and the Ubuntu 103. But you can write 
these exams in any order you wish.

The official release is planned for mid May at LinuxWorld in 
Johannesburg, and the exam should be available at the usual 
computerized vendors world-wide shortly thereafter. Keep an eye out 
for announcements and press releases from LPI and Canonical for 
details on exact dates.

Preparation is a harder question, as there is no formal courseware 
(yet) and as we all know, Linux docs are in a constant state of flux. 
The best answer I can give is to study the published Objectives 
(which reminds me, I need to check if the Wiki needs updating) and 
then research those topics on your own. Support questions on this 
very list give you a good idea of the standard required, I lurked 
here for a long time surveying what support questions are being asked 
in real life. I wanted to avoid several things:

- Exam questions about stuff that never needs investigating
- Questions on specific makes and models of hardware, no matter how 
problematic these might be. So you might get a question on internal 
modems, but not one of getting an internal modem with a Conextant 
chipset to work for example.
- Software that is changing rapidly or incomplete as yet.

Being examined in these areas is just cruel and the objectives take 
this into account. Where apps have changed over the past 4 OS 
releases, we looked to Breezy and Dapper as the reference wherever 
possible.

Do keep in mind that it is a sysadmin exam, not a user exam, so the 
focus is on how does the stuff work under the hood. Knowing how to 
navigate Synaptic won't help much here (that's a user task), but 
knowing how to debug a faulty sources.list will.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
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