On Monday, October 16, 2017, G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Anselm, > I don't think consensus on which editor should be conflated with > consensus on covering an editor. For example, if we did that, there > would have been a time when LPIC-2 covered no MTAs and, currently, no > HTTP servers. (Did I just open a can of worms?)
You just re-opened a can-o-worns, but it was very relevant to the discussion, and a good flashback to have. 'Professional use cases' brings up something I wanted to mention > earlier when someone mentioned LPIC-1 being a (Linux) sysadmin cert. > I know quite a few people that also view it as a Unix cert. And, in > my mind, it's a cert for any professional user of Linux. I spent the > first part of my career as a sw developer (SunOS and Linux, mostly) > and it took many years to accumulate the portions of the LPIC-1 > knowledge body that would have made life so much more fun, productive > and safer to the enduser. And that's why I prefer to see even Red Hat candidates with *both* RHCSA+ *and* LPIC-1+. Every quarter there is an issue on a RHEL system that isn't covered on a Red Hat exam objectives, but is in the LPI 101 or 102 objectives. It sucks up hours, even days of other people's time, but I figure out in 5 minutes. And after that happens, we cover the topic in the LPI objectives so everyone is aware. I don't want to take anything away from the Red Hat performance-based exams. And it's true, you can usually use what you want on them (not always, especially on 400 exams) to accomplish a task. But by their design, they cannot cover as many subjects, as LPI exams. Hence why the question always comes down to what _should_ a sysadmin know, for the LPIC 100+ program, especially for when the "fits hits the shan." In fact, to correct one m f prior comment ... Red Hat exam tasks are more geared towards completing day-to-day tasks, and don't address more outlier concepts, with very limited troubleshooting. LPI exams can not only cover day-to-day concepts, but a lot of very important outliers too. As I said, I run into them quarterly, and then we hit the LPI Objectives after-the-fact, so everyone is aware. I'll leave it up to others to decide on the fact of any inclusion of text editing and/or Vi. - bjs -- -- Bryan J Smith - http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith E-mail: b.j.smith at ieee.org or me at bjsmith.me
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