Hi, Fabian Thorns via lpi-examdev <[email protected]> écrit : > > This thread is supposed to capture the discussion of the > objectives draft for exam 201-500. The current draft for the > new version is available in the LPI wiki:
Overall, most changes make the objectives go the right way but... > - Topic 206 (old)/205 (new) was updated and extended to include > resource management, along with some aspects of the former > topic 200. A weight of 2 for installations from source code is way too low because this is the heart and soul of free software (or open source). Remembering the days before Linux, system administrators *had* to build software from source code, having to modify it along the way because the author used a different kind of UNIX. System administrators also had to know C and the POSIX API for that. Since Linux has binary packages, the level of knowledge system administrators have about their system has dramatically dwindled and most of them don't understand correctly the basic tools provided by the system (I often see that about things as simple as redirects and pipes). > Topic 206 (new) covers configuration management using Ansible. > This topic is very similar to the Ansible topic of the DevOps > Tools Engineer, which will no longer cover Ansible in the > future. Too bad, this seemed better suited for me. > Ansible seems to have the largest adoption nowadays, along with > the most convenient learning curve of the major tools in this > field. This topic mostly fills weights that became vacant due > to the reduction of the resource management and kernel > compilation objectives. On the contrary, the weight on this is way too much. Don't take me wrong, Ansible is a wonderful tool, I wish I had it 20 years ago but it is not Linux-specific. SQL has been taken out of exam 102 when going from 4.0 to 5.0 (it also is not Linux-specific) so the weight of 206 should be lowered as. Or is Red Hat going to acquire LPI? ;-) _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] https://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
