First LPI Level 3 "Beta" exams at LinuxWorld Utrecht: Call for Volunteers
(Utrecht, Netherlands: October 12, 2006) - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), (http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization successfully hosted the first "beta" exams for the LPIC-3 certification program at LinuxWorld Utrecht October 11-12, 2006. The LPIC-3 certification is scheduled for release in January 2007. Over a dozen Linux professionals from the Netherlands and Germany volunteered for the test development event at LinuxWorld Utrecht. Similar "beta" LPIC-3 exam events are scheduled in 2006 for Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Japan, South Africa, UK, and the USA and will involve over 300 Linux professionals. Matthew Rice, Director of Product Development for the Linux Professional Institute described that the LPIC-3 exams were a result of consultations with LPI's partners, industry leaders, and members of LPI's Strategic Advisory Council: "We have been hearing for some time that there is a strong need for skills verification in an enterprise-level Linux certification and so we have developed the LPIC-3 certification. These "beta" exam labs will enable us to more thoroughly test our Job Tasks Analysis and exam objectives to ensure that LPIC-3 is of high quality and relevant," said Matthew Rice. LPIC-3 measures professional Linux skills in the areas of authentication and file sharing services. More specifically, the test includes exam objectives on the following: - LDAP, PAM and related technologies - Samba, NFS and related technologies - Capacity Planning - Trouble Shooting - Core Network Services Participants in the "beta" LPIC-3 exam lab at LinuxWorld Utrecht were enthusiastic about the content of the exams and spoke highly of the consultative process which will ensure a true standard of global excellence in Linux professionalism: "This may be the first certification willing to take on the depth and breadth of enterprise level computing."--Leo Hordijk, Netherlands "Difficult. But representative of an active enterprise environment,"--Raimond Kollman, Waardenburg, Netherlands "Only for those who really know their stuff,"--Jeroen Baten, Son en Breugel, Netherlands "Quite comprehensive exam, many questions were highly detailed...Overall, well done,"--Michael Gisbers, Oberhausen, Germany "Many distributions, 1 standard. That's LPI's selling point. LPI is getting interoperability testing right. LPI is as independent as Linux itself,"--Dave Engbers, Rotterdam, Netherlands Similar events are scheduled for October 25-25 at LinuxWorld UK in London, October 28th in Tokyo, Japan and November 14 - 16 at LinuxWorld Cologne in Germany. Other LPIC-3 "beta" exam events in 2006 to be announced are in Australia, Brazil, Canada, South Africa and US locations in Princeton (New Jersey), Omaha (Nebraska), Washington (D.C.), Ohio, Oregon, and Utah. Please contact Glenn McKnight (glenn_at_lpi.org), Director of Operations, Linux Professional Institute, if you are interested in participating in these events. LPI is also inviting Linux professionals and industry representatives to provide input on the Job Task Analysis (JTA) for LPIC-3. Anyone interested in reviewing the LPIC-3 JTA or in providing other exam development assistance is invited to visit LPI's public twiki at: https://group.lpi.org/cgi-bin/publicwiki/view/Examdev/LPIC-3. The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is an internationally recognized, vendor-independent organization advocating and assisting the professional use of Linux, Open Source and Free Software, through the certification of Linux professionals. Established as a non-profit organization in 1999, LPI is community based and supported. LPI's certification program is delivered worldwide in multiple languages at over 7,000 testing locations and is supported by an affiliate network spanning five continents. The organization has delivered over 120,000+ LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 exams and 35,000+ certifications, globally, since the program's inception. -- 30 -- About Linux Professional Institute: The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) develops professional certification for the Linux operating system, independent of software vendors or training providers. Established as an international non-profit organization in 1999 by the Linux community, LPI develops accessible, internationally-recognized certification programs which have earned the respect of vendors, employers and administrators. LPI's activities involve hundreds of volunteers and professionals throughout the world in many different capacities, and the group encourages active public involvement through mailing lists and its website at www.lpi.org. LPI's multi-level program of exams is administered globally through Pearson VUE and Prometric testing centers. LPI's major financial sponsors are Platinum Sponsors IBM, Linux Journal, Linux Magazine, Novell, SGI, and TurboLinux as well as Gold Sponsors, Hewlett-Packard and IDG. 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