On 21.06.13 13:57, G. Matthew Rice wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Alexandru Juncu <[email protected]> wrote: >> The 3 level pyramid is very good. But maybe LPI needs to take a lesson >> from other certification vendors and initial tracks from the second >> level. Just a thought... > It's a thought shared by many. There was even a proposal to add a > Virtualization "Technician" cert that only required LPIC-1. Moreover, it's a dangerous thought from my point of view. Virtualization is something that bothers almost everything in IT, from storage to network to capacity planing to at least some idea of what is going on in the VMs. Someone who deals with virtualization beyond having some VMs on his desktop (with whatever product/hypervisor he likes) should have at least LPIC-2-experience. Giving "virtualization-certificates" to LPIC-1-certified candidates has the high risk to produce "lpi-certified virtualization experts" without the sufficient experience, which in return would likely harm the overall reputation of the LPI brand and certificates.
However, now that the burden of passing 301 in order to become 304-certified is falling people are able to become "virtualization-certified" right from LPIC-2. For me this seems to be an appropriate compromise as it requires a certain amount of previous knowledge in combination with virtualization-specific competences. That stated, I don't see any necessity for Virtualization in pre-LPIC3 exams. Getting a VM up and running using Virtual Machine Manager / VirtualBox / VMware Workstation / whatever is not worth testing when compared to other objectives in LPIC-2. On the other hand, everything beyond that is better off in 304. > It just didn't get picked up internally. Although, the talks are > coming around again. Instead of going back to those "VCT"-ideas I strongly recommend to focus on the upcoming revisions of 303 and 304 as they now attract the wider range of all LPIC-2-certififed candidates. Also, once the 30x-track is opened to all LPIC-2-candidates we should consider continue working on 305 and 306 in order to offer more specialty exams around LPIC-2. Regards, Fabian (speaking for himself) _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
