[Nottingham] Certification

[Paul Mellors]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johannes Kling" <jok at printk.net>
To: <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Certification


> Hello,
>
>> As it's vendor-and-distribution-agnostic it looks, on the face of it,
>> useful; however I can't find hide nor hair of it being used very 
>> widely...
>
> Work likes to put people through it and while it's not quite as well
> known as RHCE, for example, you'll be hard-pressed to find a
> non-vendor specific certification that is more well known. The course
> structure is a bit annoying (you /have/ to do LPI 1 before being able
> to take LPI 2, for example), but other than that it's quite good.
>
> You get to pick whether you want an "rpm-based or dpkg-based exam
> (package manager related questions will almost exclusively come from
> the one you pick, AIUI), so it does narrow things down to certain sets
> of distributions at least; just something to be aware of.
>
>> As with any cert scheme, I challenge list members to not disagree with
>> some of the sample questions & answers though!
>
> Where's the fun in that :).
>
> Regards,
>  Jo
>


Doesn't Ubuntu have certification exams now as well?