Affiliates: This memo will be distributed to LPI email lists of exam preparation providers, courseware developers, and other publishers tomorrow (Dec.30). We invite you to share this information with such content providers in your own region including training partners.
thanks, scott ============ To: LPI Courseware and Training Material Developers Re: Upcoming changes to the LPIC-2 program and other initiatives Background LPI's certification program is continually monitored for technical currency as it relates to job tasks in the IT industry. The last memo for publishers and other learning content developers provided information on the republish to LPIC-1 that is scheduled for April 2012. Published consecutively, LPIC-2 is currently approaching the 2.5 year mark for revision to the exam objectives and a republish is scheduled for July 1st 2012. Full information on our exam maintenance cycle can be found here: http://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/ObjectiveMaintenanceSchedule#Revision_Life_Cycle Summary of Changes The proposed changes for LPIC-2: 1. Explicit coverage of the ext4 filesystem. 2. Explicit coverage of the IPv6. 3. Basic feature knowledge of encrypted filesystems. 4. Basic feature knowledge of xfsdump/xfsrestore commands. 5. Explicit coverage of Linux 3.0 kernel. Impact to Courseware Developers: The impact to courseware and book authors should be very small. Feedback indicates that most courseware and book authors should be able to implement these changes in a matter of a few weeks. Future Looking Changes: The recent Product Development Survey included the opportunity for people to suggest major changes to the ongoing development of our exams. LPI sought input on technologies to consider in the next complete update of our exams in 2014. Overwhelmingly, there were suggestions on increasing coverage of virtualization in our exams: in LPIC-1, LPIC-2 or as an adjunct exam on top of LPIC-1 were amongst the options suggested. This lends further credence to the idea that virtualization knowledge is working it's way down the experience stack to where juniors are expected to be able to deal with the subject. Cloud management tools were also hot topics for consideration in future updates (or in LPIC-3 exams). Additional suggested technologies to watch or consider include btrfs, system monitoring tools (such as nagios), cgroups, puppet (move from lpic-3 to lpic-2), NFSv4 (move from lpic-3 to lpic-2) and capacity planning (move from lpic-3 to lpic-2). Linux Essentials: A new program is currently under development which is meant to prepare youth and those new to Linux and Open Source for work in the IT sector. Provisionally named, "Linux Essentials", exam development for this new program is currently underway and is scheduled to be published in June of 2012 for an initial pilot in the LPI EMEA region. Exam objectives are publicly available on the LPI wiki at: http://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/LinuxEssentials. Questions or comments can be directed at [email protected]. To participate in the dialog with other exam volunteers on this initiative please join the Exam Development discussion list at: http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev -- Scott Lamberton Director of Communications Linux Professional Institute http://www.lpi.org [email protected] +1-905-269-0862 _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
