[Gllug] LPI Exams - relevance?

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 14:31 +0100, James Roberts wrote:
> 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 how out-of-date they are.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?

I've always felt the LPI offerings lack relevance.

If the exams are at dated as the training ones per above I'd say they
are next to worthless and you'd be better looking elsewhere if you want
your staff to benefit.

Jason

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