Hello everybody,
I'm a little late to the party, but I hope I'm not too late to offer help with translating the site and the certification materials into the Polish language and share some comments:
1) Certificate duration. I'd vote for 2 years. That seems to be a fairly reasonable period of time.
2) OS specifics. That's a tough one. We're all BSD, but we differ slightly in the ways we do things, so there should be a module that tests the knowledge of the differences between the major three BSD systems. Perhaps not so much the memorization of equivalent commands but rather the ability to adapt the knowledge gathered in one environment to another? You can fast-forward if I'm taking nonsense here.
3) Q & A vs. test-labs. I'd vote against automated Q & A tests. I'd go for a series of test sessions that judge the ability to handle specific tasks. The candidate ought to be given a challenge, e.g. to configure a certain type of a firewall setup and then monitor it and write a report.
4) Target level. I'd go after the Tillman's "low-to-middle" category of people who want a certificate because they need it to get a job. They will be more motivated to go into the trouble of certifying their skills.
5) BSD OS vs. BSD technology certification. That begs for a separate treatment, so perhaps the certification ought to have three levels:
-- BSD OS administration and networking -- advanced BSD networking -- BSD security
If you need a test site for developing and testing the certification procedures and materials, we can quickly put it together in Poland with the help of my colleagues from the ProIdea foundation in Krakow. In fact, that's what we've been planning on doing recently ourselves. I also have some contacts in the UK.
I'll be teaching OpenBSD/PF classes in Poland (maybe in the UK) this year, so I can do some testing of the curriculum with my students.
-- Jacek Artymiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ BSDcert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
