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April 12, 1999, 9:32 AM EST
Linux Certification Rolls Forward
And resellers watch with fascination.
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Sm@rt Reseller
Certifications. If you're a reseller, you may love
them, you may hate them, but you can't ignore
them.
The adage is especially true in the quickly growing
field of Linux. Now, the Linux Professional Inc., a
non-profit group devoted to developing
professional Linux certification, is charging ahead
with a comprehensive Linux certification program:
the Linux Certified Professional.
Is this just a pipe dream, given that Caldera
Systems and Red Hat Software already have class
and certification programs set up? No.
Caldera says this is a natural succession to its own certification program.
Caldera's Benoy Tamang, VP of Marketing comments, "It was our initiative,
Caldera brought together Evan Leibovitch, LPI Executive Director (and
ZDNet Linux contributing editor), and Dan York, Board Chair, physically
together for the first time to have them work on this project."
But, it's not a Caldera show. It's an independent effort, which Caldera
wholeheartedly supports because it "will lead to the best possible
certification program, because its not specific to any one distribution."
According to Leibovitch, the LPI is now working with an advisory board that
includes representatives form all the major Linux reseller distributors.
These include Allan Smart, Caldera's director of education services; Lonn
Johnston, Pacific HiTech's VP North American operations; Donnie Barnes,
Red Hat's director of technical programs and Marc Torres, SuSE Inc.'s
president.
The LPI certification effort also has the support of other Linux movers and
shakers such as Linux International's executive director, Jon "MadDog"
Hall, Slackware's principal developer, Patrick Volkerdring and Linuxcare's
CTO, Dave Sifry among others. With almost every Linux power except
Linus Torvald and Richard M. Stallman on board, the LPI is in position to
make its certification the Linux certification.
This Advisory Council will assist the LPI in creating an extensive three-level
professional certification program. Even with all this high-powered help,
the first exams won't be in place until the third quarter of 1999.
First Things First
The first certification, naturally enough, will be the Basic with others to
quickly follow. There will also be, later in the game, specific certifications
for the major distributions.
But, what will participants be tested on? Plans are, unsurprisingly, sketchy
at this point. But, what can be safely said is that someone with the basic
level will be able to serve on a Linux helpdesk or work as a system
administration assistant. At the next level, Standard, graduates will be
system administrator ready. At the top, the Advanced level, graduates will
be able, depending on their specializations, to work as a senior system
administrator, database system administrator or cross-network system
integrator.
Training, however, isn't in the LPI's current plans. For that, resellers will
need to turn to still nascent Linux training companies and the existing
training programs of Caldera, which are geared to generic Linux, or Red
Hat with its Red Hat specific courses.
The LPI still doesn't have its ducks in a row on how the tests will be
delivered. Although, LPI has had preliminary contact with such old pros of
the testing world as Sylvan Prometric and Virtual University Enterprises,
LPI may well try an entirely different approach.
The Linux certification's real value will only be seen when resellers have
certificates on their walls and can determine whether they result in more
business and/or higher rates. With the support of all the major Linux
reseller vendors and a vendor neutral approach, though, this is one
certification that should pay for itself.
Linux Certified Professional
Basic
exams:
T1: General Linux
T2: Distribution specific Linux Standard
exams:
T3: Advanced administration
T4: Linux internals Advanced
exams:
T5: Specializations
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