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On 31/01/00 at 2:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>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:
Yes and no, the summary is very broad, I guess in a corporate situation
things will be clearly defined, maybe you are the Admin of file and print,
or maybe of WAN services (DNS, HTTP etc ) , a level 2 sysadmin sounds like
all you would ever have to employ.......
I see level 2 as fairly competant, but leaves quite a gap for specialist
services, please forgive me, but it sounds like level 2 is superman....
WANS, Security, and all sevices... I guesss that includes file and print
etc .. where is there to go after level 2 ?
>
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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:
Not for a real job, he sounds very overworked......
>
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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:
Yes, this sound reasonable.....
>
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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:
>
How does whats shown here http://www.lpi.org/c-process.html#LPIC2 fit
into things now, or has level 2 swallowed level 3 as well.....
Keep in mind I did join discussions late.
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