As promised, I have made minor revisions to our draft, including a
disclaimer about the job description being a draft, and subject to change
content (both structural and technical) upon review of LPI board, this
discussion, or job survey results. See the new updates at
http://www.lpi.org/jobdesc-l2.html .
I would now like to break down this description into small sections, and
ask each of you to answer or comment to the questions I've listed below.
Please, feel free to add questions and comments as necessary. The
following items will be up for discussion until 2/2, when the next item
will be introduced. To help focus this list, if you are unable to respond
to this topic by 2/2, send your answers directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2/2,
we will begin picking apart the Specific Technical Requirements topics.
NOTE: Do not insert your comments into the text. Please answer the
questions below, and place any relevant comments after. Thank you for your
cooperation and participation. This first section is rather general, so if
you have no thoughts, or just simply agree, please say so! Thanks again!
Section to be reviewed: Generic Job Description
Content for review ...
A level 2 system administrator should have a wide variety of talents,
ranging from defined technical capability to established communications
skills. In the professional business, the level 2 candidate will be
expected to maintain a higher degree of inter-personal and communication
skills as well as provide services beyond his certifiable technical
knowledge such as research, proposal, documentation, training, and project
management. This level of responsibility requires a high level of
technical competance which can be measured by technical performance
testing. While the LPIC-2 goal cannot test social and management skills
needed to fill level 2 sysadmin positions, its goal is to certify the
technical skills that are required.
A Level 2 sysadmin should be comfortable with advanced levels of Linux
system administration. A Level 2 candidate should be comfortable with
large networks, working with multiple dedicated servers and workstations
dedicated to these tasks, as well as managing them, securing them, and
maintaining all the services required to do so.
In Level 1, LPI covered the essentials to creating and maintaining a Linux
workstation. In Level 2, LPIC should address advanced topics such as
installation engineering and system resource managements of not only
individual workstations, but servers.
....
Kara's Comments: These three paragraphs should provide the general sense
of the job level that level II candidates would be expected to fill. These
lines should help specify some of the differences between level1 and level
2 candidates in the job market. Overall, this summary should highlight the
generic style job postings found on job sites.
Q1: Do you feel that this summary fairly explains the expected
responsibility level of a level 2 candidate, while understanding that
LPI is unable to certify skills beyond a technical level?
Q1 Answer and Comment:
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Q2: Do you agree that the generic responsibility levels in these
paragraphs is true to a mid level to advanced system administrator?
Q2 Answer and Comment:
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Q3: Do you think it's fair to compare level 1 administrators and level 2
administrators in the final paragraph, as it pertains to the LPI
certification?
Q3 Answer and Comment:
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Q4: What type of job titles would you think could have a generic job
description as listed here?
Q4: Answer and Comment:
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Q5: Without getting into technical specifics, are there other general job
aspects that you feel need to be addressed here?
Q5 Answer and Comment:
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Your Questions and Comments:
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Thanks again!
- Kara
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Kara Pritchard, RHCE
Asst. Dir. for Project Development
Linux Professional Institute
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