On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 at 18:03:10 +0200 Simone Piccardi <picca...@truelite.it> wrote:
> Il 10/10/2017 22:10, Fabian Thorns ha scritto: >> We might want to start commenting on exam 102 here. >> > > This should be the right thread for the discussion, sorry again for the > error. > > I propose the removal of topic 105.3: "SQL data management" because it > has nothing to do with Linux. > > It's true that knowing about SQL basis is needed for a sysadmin, like > knowing about switching loops. For both I just don't think they are > topics for a Linux specific certification. I agree. The response I get from people attending LPIC-2 related classes is regularly of surprise if not amazement when SQL is introduced. It is true that Apache (LPI-202) too is not specifically a Linux OS component, but it's relationship to Linux is stronger, and the main use of SQL engines is together with a web server and a dinamic http content generator language like PHP; why then not putting PHP too into the basket? Well, because LPI is an OS certification, not a webmaster certification. Then also email servers (LPI-202), LDAP (LPI-202) and proxy servers (LPI-202) are not Linux-specific, but they are more general tools than SQL engines and are more strongly related to the OS: sendmail and mail commands are almost as old tools as Unix, sendmail is a Unix requirement too, LDAP can be selected as a user authentication backend, perhaps proxy server are more like SQL: a useful tool indeed, but not strongly related to Linux. Maybe SQL too should be moved to LPI-202? Alessandro _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
