Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Does it mean the LPIC-x is always updated with the latest technologies > meaning the curriculum is updated once in every two years?
Official policy is to have major updates every five years and minor updates every two-and-a-half years. During minor updates, the content of the objectives are reviewed to take changes in technology or recommended software into account but the objectives themselves and their arrangement stay the same. During major updates, objectives can be added, deleted, or rearranged. (This five-year cycle recently became disrupted to a certain degree for LPIC-2, which had a minor review not so long ago but then suffered some collateral damage from this year's LPIC-301/302 major review, which had been overdue. In the process some of the material that used to be in LPIC-301 got moved to LPI-202, which then led to a domino effect that affected other parts of the LPIC-2 exams, amounting in effect to an unscheduled major review of LPIC-2. However, this is pretty unusual.) In general, this official policy is to a certain degree founded on wishful thinking, mostly because of »person-power« shortages that prevent us from getting all the reviews done on time every time. This makes the »recertify every two years« recommendation vaguely silly because if you obtain a certificate fairly soon after a review, two years later the objectives will very likely not actually have been reviewed again yet – so my recommendation would be to forget about the two years and, every so often, check the version numbers of the actual objectives instead, to see whether there have been any interesting changes. A review of the objectives for an LPI certificate is not something one person can finish in an afternoon, and what usually happens is that a number of people will get together (on the 'Net) in order to share the work and have productive discussions on what to change, add or remove. Given that LPI is to a large extent a volunteer-driven organisation, this is where YOU can help – by contributing to the exam process. Personally, as an instructor and author of training materials I have found it very useful to take part in this on various occasions. There should be information on the LPI web page at http://www.lpi.org/ on how to get involved. Anselm (Not speaking for my employer.) -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- & Netz-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705), Geschäftsführer: Oliver Michel _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list lpi-discuss@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
