Martijn Brekhof wrote: > I am wondering what the actual target audience is. Should someone holding a > basic certificate be able to work in a professional environment or should > he or she only be able to get his or her own linux system running? > In other words are we talking about sysadmins or users?
The idea behind the introductory certification is mainly to be able to give something to schools and universities that is actually attainable within the scope of a class being taught at such institutions. Feedback from academic partners of LPI is fairly consistently that LPIC-1 contains too much material and cannot be taught and examined in the time available. The LPI introductory certification should serve as a »stepping stone« to more advanced LPI certifications (i.e., LPIC-1), which explains why its content is almost completely a subset of LPIC-1. This means that as an alumnus of the introductory certification one has that much less work to prepare for LPIC-1, which helps those institutions that *do* go for LPIC-1 and can offer the introductory certification as a nice side incentive. At the same time, it should serve as an introduction to *Linux* and FLOSS as opposed to generic computer-user stuff (browsing the Web, writing e-mails, using a word processor), since (a) that isn't all that different from using other platforms, or indeed FLOSS on those platforms as the major applications such as Firefox or Chrome, OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice, Thunderbird, etc. are all available on those platforms too, and (b) there is no consensus whatsoever how these things ought to be made into a Linux-based exam, especially one that is to be delivered on the cheap. Hence, don't think »sysadmins vs. users«, think »teenage school kid or undergraduate student«, presumably with a background in using non-Linux computers and applications. Which is not to say that the introductory certification might not be interesting for other people, too. Anselm (speaking for himself, as always) -- 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-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
