Linux Professional Institute changes Recertification Policy (Tokoyo, Japan: December 1, 2006) – The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), (http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification is changing the organization's "Recertification Policy" to ensure that the skills and knowledge of Linux professionals continues to be relevant and current. Candidates who have earned LPIC certifications will have to re-certify every five years or alternatively earn a higher certification status. Previously recertification was only required after ten years.
Jim Lacey, President and CEO of LPI, said LPI will continue to advise Linux professionals to seek recertification every two years due to rapid changes and improvements in the Linux operating system but that consultations with industry leaders indicated that a mandatory five year recertification policy was sufficient at this time: "We continue to improve our product development processes and programs through on-going dialogue with industry leaders and IT professionals. In bringing our exams up-to-date with recent versions of the Linux kernel we found it necessary to re-examine our recertification policy. It should be noted that because we are distribution-neutral we don't require our candidates to re-certify with each new version of a specific distribution. However, we are interested in the underlying technology of the Linux operating system and what knowledge and skills an IT professional must have to work with multiple distributions in an enterprise environment. Our new recertification policy should ensure the relevance, currency and value of those who have obtained our certification." LPI's new Recertification Policy can be found on the organization's website at http://www.lpi.org/en/lpi/english/certification/policies and is included in full below: "Recertification Policy Once a person is certified by LPI and receives a certification designation (LPIC-1, LPIC-2, LPIC-3), recertification is recommended after two years from the date of the certification designation to retain a current certification status. However, to RETAIN an ACTIVE certification status, a certification holder is REQUIRED to recertify within 5 years of the certification designation. Recertification requires that the individual candidate passes all up-to-date exams that are only required for the highest earned certification designation. After successful recertification, the designation status will be updated to ACTIVE for a period of FIVE years. When a higher level certification designation is earned, the status of all lower level designations are considered ACTIVE for FIVE years from the date of the higher level certification designation. However, candidates who do not recertify and allow their certification status to lapse will be required to earn their current and all lower level certification designations, should they subsequently pursue reactivating their certification status. The addition of the designation status of ACTIVE or INACTIVE into the LPI database began on September 1, 2004. Certification designations (LPIC-1, LPIC-2, etc.) earned before that date will be subject to the recertification stipulations as outlined above. Therefore all certification designations earned before September 1, 2004 will no longer be considered 'lifetime' designations and instead will only have ACTIVE status from FIVE years from the date of certification designation. However, certification designations earned prior to September 1, 2003 will be considered ACTIVE certifications until September 1, 2008." -30- Media contact: Scott Lamberton Director of Communications Linux Professional Institute Web: http://www.lpi.org Telephone: +1-416-666-1574 _______________________________________________ Linux Professional Institute media mailing list Contact: Scott Lamberton, Director of Communications Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: +1-416-666-1574 To Subscribe or unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "media unsubsribe"; in the subject line or do so directly at: http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/media _______________________________________________ lpi-announce mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-announce
