The Linux Professional Institute (known as LPI) offers vendor neutral certification for Linux System Administrators.
Here are some LPI news items from the month of March. 1; Second Release of Level 1 published on March 28th 2003. 2; Report on Cebit IT fair, Hannover - Germany 3; LPI Information for LPI Germany 4; Another new site to help prepare for LPI exams http://www.linux-praxis.de/lpisim 5; Real World Linux - Toronto, Canada - April 28th - 30th http://www.realworldlinux.com 6; New Orleans welcomes LPI and UL 7; LPI president makes key note presentation in Munich http://www.iir.de/linux-forum/ 8; Statistics 9; Assistance for disabled LPI candidates. 1; Level 1 is re-released on March 28th 2003 http://www.news.org LPI is pleased to tell you that the new level 1 (release 2) exams are now available at all Vue and Prometric sites - in English. The Japanese translation will be published within the next few weeks. The new objectives (with weights) are available here. http://www.lpi.org/p-index.html Release 2 has been thoroughly tested and evaluated by our psychometric team and we are positive these exams meet our high standards and will continue to ensure LPI remains a valid certification in the IT world. There has been some courseware prepared with the new objectives and we expect to see more new courseware prepared. We will add these details to the web site as they become available. As you are aware, LPI is training neutral and we appreciate all courseware providers who offer the training that leads to the LPI exams. http://www.lpi.org/c-preparation.html 2; Cebit IT Fair, Hannover - Germany Cebit claims to be the largest IT fair in the world, with 27 buildings as big as football fields, and visitors from around the world. LPI participated at Cebit again this year with a small booth in the 'Open Source Exchange' area which included Linux International, Igel, Mission Critical and others. We offered exam 101 and 201 during the fair and everyday the exam lab was full. During the fair, the Open Source Exchange hosted a day of information on Linux issues. There were many tracks including one from Suse and one presentation done by "Maddog' of Linux International. LPI presented an hour of information in English and German - there were many questions and comments on LPI and it was generally a very successful day. 3; LPI-Germany Information The German version of current news will appear a few days after the publishing of the English original at http://www.de.lpi.org/de/news/de-news0303.html There is an archive of German translations of former LPI-news at http://www.de.lpi.org/de/news/index.html The page http://www.de.lpi.org/de/de-index.html offers additional German related resources like a list of German VUE and Prometric test centers in zip code order for the easy location of test centers nearby. There is a new public mailing list for German LPI friends as a platform to discuss local LPI issues. Subscribe at: http://lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-de If general issues are concerned, the international list lpi-discuss should be preferred, though. See http://lpi.org/mailman/listinfo for other lists. 4; Another new site to help prepare for LPI exams. One of our volunteer friends in Germany, Florian Kalhammer, built a site that offers a simulation of the LPI 101 and recently added the 102 exam. The URL is http://www.linux-praxis.de/lpisim Although his site is in German, both simulations are in the english language, and both are completely free. Thank you, Florian. 5; Real World Linux - Toronto, Canada - April 28th - 30th http://www.realworldlinux.com We will be at the show in Toronto - and will be offering exams at $20 Cdn (admin. fee). You can take exam 101 or 201 but you must register for the exam and come with your ID number; http://www.lpi.org/register.html Let me know if you will be taking an exam during the show, which exam and which time frame; [EMAIL PROTECTED] April 29th 10AM or 2PM April 30th 10AM or 2PM Room Number 809 6; New Orleans welcomes LPI and United Linux. http://devworks.confnav.com/devworks/web/index.html At the IBM Developer Day in New Orleans, LPI and UL will publicize the objectives for the UL exams that are being developed. The plans for the United Linux certification require the candidate to pass the LPI Level 1 exams as a pre-requisite for the UL exam 103. and pass the LPI Level 2 exams as a pre-requisite for the UL exam 203. There will also be an opportunity at this conference for candidates to take the LPI exam 101 or 201 at no cost. Please check the IBM site for details on the conference, and let us know if you plan to attend, and wish to take the exam; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exam time frame will be; April 9th 3PM April 10th 11.30AM and 3.45PM Room 341. 7; LPI in Munich, Germany http://www.iir.de/linux-forum/ Evan Leibovitch, President of LPI, was invited to Munich Germany to speak at the Linux Business Forum - on the use of Linux and international acceptance and development. Please read the press release regarding his key note address on the LPI web site - News section. http://news.lpi.org/ 8; Statistics To keep you up-to-date on the LPI statistics; Exams taken to date (approx.); 24,000 Certifications (approx); 5,500 Most exams taken in: (in order) Japan Germany USA followed closely by; Korea China 9; Assistance for disabled candidates We are pleased to tell you that we have a blind candidate who has passed his Level 1 exams and is now LPIC-1. With the assistance of LPI-Japan and Vue, we were able to make arrangements to ensure security of the exams and enable the candidate to complete the exams. Congratulations are extended to our candidate, who prefers to remain anonymous. If there are any other candidates who require special assistance, please let us know and we will try to accommodate. Thanks for all your support and please let me know if there are any questions or concerns with the LPI program. Thank you, Wilma Silbermann Executive Assistant [EMAIL PROTECTED] 905 874 4822 _______________________________________________ Lpi-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-announce
