[Gllug] LPI Exams - relevance?

[James Roberts]

Help request from those who knows:

I have been planning to put my trainee staff through LPI 1&2. I have not 
done these myself, so had a good look at the exam samples etc. in the 
Roos Brunson book suggested by the LPI as the 'most up-to-date' example.

While undoubtedly there is much of general *nix relevance covered in 
these exams (more of general use than say MCSE's) I was troubled to see 
how out-of-date they are. For example the training exams include loadsa 
stuff on kernel 2.2, LILO, sendmail, lp style printing (not CUPS), and 
many other things that I sincerely doubt any of my staff will ever 
encounter.

Aptitude (for Debian) and YUM (for RPM) are not covered at all.

Now I appreciate that exams will inevitably slip behind practice.

My question to those with experience of this, is, despite these issues, 
are the LPI certifications still useful as evidence of anything?

MeJ
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