Hi, This is neither a rant nor a complaint. It's just me thinking out loud. Feel free to ignore or comment. Brutal honesty is welcome.
As soon as the BSD Specialist exam was announced (October 2019), I started preparing myself for this certification. No official prep materials had been released, so I used an old wiki [1] for the now defunct BSD Associate certification [2] from the equally defunct BSD Certification Group [3]. I should have gone for the exam last year, and if I had done it, I'd not have come here and moan about it, but we had a hard lockdown here in UK and most test centres shut for good. So I thought, let's use this time to study even harder. Now that some centres are re-opening, I am no longer sure why I should invest almost £200 (exam fee + VAT + currency conversion fees) for a certification that nobody knows of and the LPI clearly doesn't believe in. The wiki (on which the exam is based) is full of errors; there are still no prep materials; it's a dead end certification because it doesn't lead to any other certification, unlike the LPIC; the original members of the BSD Certification Group are no longer working on this certification; there is zero feedback on this certification: I still have to hear of anyone who has gone for it. What does the future hold for the BSD Specialist? If the LPI doesn't really believe in its potential, is it not just better to retire it? [1] http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/ [2] http://bsdcertification.org/certification/bsd-associate.html [3] http://bsdcertification.org/index.html -- Ottavio Caruso _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] https://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
