Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI- 304

2013-05-04 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi Hasan, On 04.05.13 14:11, hasan akgöz wrote: Where can I find sample questions , LPI 304? . I don't remember having seen any... However, 304 is as lpi-stylish as all other LPI-exams therefore the general advices for LPI exams apply here too. Once you've made it to LPIC-2/301 you shouldn't

Re: [lpi-examdev] Virtualization topics in LPIC

2013-06-21 Thread Fabian Thorns
On 21.06.13 13:57, G. Matthew Rice wrote: On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Alexandru Juncu al...@rosedu.org 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

Re: [lpi-examdev] systemd now for LPIC-1 or later?

2014-02-17 Thread Fabian Thorns
would advice to have both systemd and sysv init in the next LPIC-1 objectives in quite high intense, but I'm pretty sure the survey and the JTA will have the last words regarding that. And both are open for participation :-) Regards, Fabian -- Fabian Thorns ( fab...@thorns.it ) * Consultant

Re: [lpi-examdev] reiserfs

2014-06-25 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi there, It is hard to find the right trade off between legacy technology that is loosing relevance and upcoming technologies that just begin to spread. From the candidate's perspective there are old topics that they may rarely see in the field and that they would only learn for LPI -- though

Re: [lpi-examdev] Status of LPIC-1, LPIC-304 and Linux Essentials Objectives

2014-07-15 Thread Fabian Thorns
On 07/16/2014 02:36 AM, G. Matthew Rice wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Bryan J Smith b.j.sm...@ieee.org wrote: So _everyone_ needs to know Class A, B and C if they are going to remotely do any DNS administration. So it's best to introduce them with their CIDR for IPv4. DNS

Re: [lpi-examdev] Extra stuff for 201

2014-07-29 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi Martin, right now the new version of the LPIC-1 objectives have just been closed. xz and systemd have been included in the LPIC-1 exams and it's very likely that they'll be covered during the next revision of LPIC-2 too. Regarding zabbix... 200.2 refers only to the awareness of Nagios (and

Re: [lpi-examdev] Suggestions for 202 exams (adds)

2014-07-29 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi Martin, On 07/29/2014 04:05 PM, Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen wrote: Hi again, I think that the following should be added to the 202 exams: 208.?? Varnish Varnish is a very effective and common used HTTP accelerator and much better than squid for this use case. It is also

Re: [lpi-examdev] SQL in LPIC 1

2015-02-11 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi there, On 02/11/2015 02:16 PM, Anselm Lingnau wrote: Simone Piccardi picca...@truelite.it wrote: Could you provide some examples? In my (limited) experience almost all programs I'm using just log to text file (journald beeing the main exception). Apache can write its access log to an

Re: [lpi-examdev] SQL in LPIC 1

2015-02-10 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi there, I would vote for removing SQL from LPIC-1 during the next objective update too. Unfortunately this will be somewhere far away in the future as we're just switching to version 4. As Martin points out, user management and security are important for database administrators -- as they are

[lpi-examdev] LPIC-303 objectives review

2015-03-02 Thread Fabian Thorns
Dear all, This year, we're working on a major update of the objectives for the LPIC-303 (Security) exam. During the last few weeks, we consulted several existing LPIC-303 holders, some subject matter experts (SMEs), and courseware providers for their opinion and ideas for the update. Thanks to

Re: [lpi-examdev] 211.2 and procmail

2016-01-04 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi Simone, I guess we have procmail in there because of the "Local E-Mail Delivery" topic of the objectives. It is something a user can run on his own system while delivering mails to a locally accessed Maildir/mbox while sieve are usually deployed to a remote server, which would move this topic

[lpi-examdev] LPIC-2 Objectives Draft

2016-05-31 Thread Fabian Thorns
Dear all, first of all, I would like to thank you for your thoughts and suggestions for the upcoming LPIC-2 version. A lot of them made it to the current objectives draft, though we won't be able to include all of them (sorry, Bryan, yet another LPIC-2 without FreeIPA). In addition to the

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPI 200.2 and collectd

2016-02-22 Thread Fabian Thorns
I agree that collectd wouldn't be the first thing that comes my mind either... I wouldn't dare to suggest Nagios or Icinga being part of an LPIC-2 exam as both could easily fill an exam on their own. I see that topic more about getting an idea of which kind of properties exist and how to measure

[lpi-examdev] LPI Exam and Certification Development Survey 2016

2016-04-07 Thread Fabian Thorns
Dear LPI Community, In the townhall meetings held recently, the question of LPI's role in an evolving technical world was raised. During the last months we had numerous discussions with people at Open Source events asking them for what they do in their jobs, how they expect to change them in the

[lpi-examdev] LPIC-2 Objectives Review

2016-04-26 Thread Fabian Thorns
Dear all, before you hit reply -- please read this email until the end! Looking at the exam development calendar it's time to start thinking about the next revision of the LPIC-2 objectives! This year a minor update is due, so we should verify that the current content of the objectives still

[lpi-examdev] Exam 202 objectives discussion

2016-04-26 Thread Fabian Thorns
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[lpi-examdev] Exam 201 objectives discussion

2016-04-26 Thread Fabian Thorns
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[lpi-examdev] LPIC-OT DevOps Tools Engineer Objectives Draft

2017-02-24 Thread Fabian Thorns
Dear all, as you might know, we're working on a new certification, "LPIC-OT DevOps Tools Engineer". We've started the Job Task Analysis in 2016 to find out about the relevance of the exam's topics. First of all, I'd like to thank all of you who took the time to rate the tasks, add new tasks and

Re: [lpi-examdev] lpi-examdev Digest, Vol 104, Issue 4

2017-02-27 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi Jeremy, thanks for your encouraging feedback! On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:05 AM, Jeremy Hajek wrote: I had one piece of advice. The Docker material needs to be reviewed > because the concepts there are vastly different than Virtualization. > Perhaps the Docker material

Re: [lpi-examdev] lpi-examdev Digest, Vol 104, Issue 4

2017-02-27 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi Bryan, On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:13 AM, Bryan Smith wrote: > DevOps in the '10s are the move to Stateless Servers, just like > Client-Server in the '90s was the move to Stateless Clients. > > No more persistent stores in Servers, just like we eliminated on Clients. >

[lpi-examdev] LPIC-300 Objective Discussion

2016-09-17 Thread Fabian Thorns
Dear all, taking a look at https://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/LPIC-3_300_Objectives_V1 You will notice that it's time to review the current LPIC-300 objectives to ensure they are still up to date. Therefore I'd like you all to share your thoughts about our current objectives with the list, including

[lpi-examdev] LPIC-OT DevOps Engineer

2016-12-13 Thread Fabian Thorns
Dear all, I'm sure you already saw the news but I wanted to send out a reminder that we currently have a Job Task Analysis running for a new certification called "LPI Certified Open Technology DevOps Engineer". In 2016 we talked a lot about automation tools, container virtualization, cloud

Re: [lpi-examdev] How can I participate into Beta Exam

2017-08-10 Thread Fabian Thorns
Dear all, just a quick reminder, the beta signup is available at www.lpi.org/beta-signup Fabian On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Fabian Thorns <ftho...@lpi.org> wrote: > Hi Alexandru, > > now that you asked for it I will send an update to the list as soon as the > re

Re: [lpi-examdev] How can I participate into Beta Exam

2017-07-20 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi Renato, On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Renato Felix wrote: > It's the first time I'm getting involved with LPI and it's just this Dev > integration with Ops (I'm currently more DEV). > Welcome to the LPI community! I did not understand *how to sign up for the Beta

Re: [lpi-examdev] How can I participate into Beta Exam

2017-07-21 Thread Fabian Thorns
this list when the registration is > open ? > > Thanks. > > On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 12:52 AM, Fabian Thorns <ftho...@lpi.org> wrote: > >> Hi Renato, >> >> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Renato Felix <jovemfe...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> It's

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-OT DevOps Tools Engineer certification's books

2017-07-26 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi Valerio, since the certification is new there is no book specific to the preparation for this exam yet. The most important source for preparing for the exam are the objectives which you can find here: https://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/LPIC-OT_DevOps_Tools_Engineer_Objectives_V1 If the objectives

[lpi-examdev] LPIC-OT DTE: Icinga 2 vs. Prometheus

2017-07-06 Thread Fabian Thorns
Dear all, you probably know we're getting closer to the finalization of the LPIC-OT DevOps Tools Engineer certification. While we're doing some last tweaks to the objectives, we struggled over the question whether Icinga 2 or Prometheus is the 'better' tool for monitoring the components of an

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-OT DTE: Icinga 2 vs. Prometheus

2017-07-06 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi Jeroen, thanks for following up :) On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Jeroen Baten wrote: Well, you can teach a dog a trick, but humans are able to understand things. > > This means that the question is not "icinga or prometheus" but > understanding monitoring. > This is very

[lpi-examdev] Linux Essentials Objectives Discussion

2017-10-10 Thread Fabian Thorns
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[lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 and Linux Essentials Objective Updates

2017-10-10 Thread Fabian Thorns
Dear all, it's again time to update some of our exam's objectives. This time, we'll work on exams 010, 101 and 102; in other words, we're updating Linux Essentials and LPIC-1. We're doing both at the same time since a some of the relevant changes will likely affect both certifications. Our main

[lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 102 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-10 Thread Fabian Thorns
We might want to start commenting on exam 102 here. ___ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev

[lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-10 Thread Fabian Thorns
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Re: [lpi-examdev] monitoring for devops

2017-08-27 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi Jeroen, On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Jeroen Baten wrote: In case you mist my earlier reply (lost at the bottom of an old thread > in your email client :-) ) I repost it like this. > Good point, I still owe you a response on that thread. Here it comes :) Having thought

Re: [lpi-examdev] Make the lpi 102 desktop topic useful again

2017-11-22 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi there, I agree that our current 106.1 and 106.2 objectives are not really helpful anymore. I like the idea of including remote desktop sessions; although I argue that we can't also add virtualization within the three weight points of those objectives. Objective 106.1, X11 installation and

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-11-22 Thread Fabian Thorns
unreasonable for LPIC-1. Fabian On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Fabian Thorns <ftho...@lpi.org> wrote: > We might want to start commenting on exam 101 here. > ___ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 102 Objectives Discussion

2017-12-19 Thread Fabian Thorns
or if you think some of the arguments / reasons are wrong. Fabian On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Fabian Thorns <ftho...@lpi.org> wrote: > We might want to start commenting on exam 102 here. > ___ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 102 Objectives Discussion

2017-11-09 Thread Fabian Thorns
know what you think! And don't worry about 101, there will be a similar mail soon :) Fabian On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Fabian Thorns <ftho...@lpi.org> wrote: > We might want to start commenting on exam 102 here. > ___ lpi-exa

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 102 Objectives Discussion

2017-11-09 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi Mark, On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Mark Clarke wrote: > No changes to 106.1 and 106.2? There was some discussion on this. In > particular xwininfo and xdpinfo. Maybe something about Wayland. I would > just like this section to be more relevant and practical. I am

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-11-09 Thread Fabian Thorns
to work with ranges and delete, change, substitute on ranges 104.1 Create partitions and filesystems * Add gpt * Add awareness of exfat 104.2 Maintain the integrity of filesystems * Add mkfs * Remove e2fsck and mke2fs Looking forward to hear your opinion, Fabian On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:10 PM,

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 102 Objectives Discussion

2017-11-09 Thread Fabian Thorns
On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Anselm Lingnau wrote: > Alex Clemente wrote: > > > NetworkManger is easy. > > NetworkManager : iproute2 = GNU Emacs : vi > Would you argue that there people who use Emacs to debug the result of using vi (or vice versa)? In that regard,

[lpi-examdev] LPI BSD Associate

2018-05-27 Thread Fabian Thorns
' certification. As usual, please share any thoughts and comments either here, or directly with me or our BSD Advisory Board lead, Dru. Also, if you have a background in BSD and have not yet been involved in the exam development, feel free to speak up :) Fabian -- Fabian Thorns <ftho...@lpi.org&g

Re: [lpi-examdev] Is it time to move lpi-examdev to a forum?

2018-01-01 Thread Fabian Thorns
I prefer to keep the general exam development discussion on this list. Mattermost might be useful for detailed discussions on specific topics or during SME work on specific topics. As Anselm points out, introducing another platform, with dedicated credentials, has the high risk of loosing people

Re: [lpi-examdev] About Linux as a virtualization guest

2018-08-01 Thread Fabian Thorns
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 4:31 PM, 'Simone Piccardi' via Relay - fthorns < ftho...@relay.lpi.org> wrote: > Il 01/08/2018 09:37, Fabian Thorns ha scritto: > > I wouldn't go too deep into those details, we're not talking about VM > > Exists/Entries nor about masking individual

Re: [lpi-examdev] About Linux as a virtualization guest

2018-07-31 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi Sergio, On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 11:13 PM, Sergio Belkin wrote: > Hi, I'd like to understand exactly what a candidate should to be able, are > these abilities correct? > >- Determine if a system it's either a container or a virtual machine >- To be aware of differents technologies of

Re: [lpi-examdev] About Linux as a virtualization guest

2018-08-01 Thread Fabian Thorns
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Re: [lpi-examdev] Lpi v5

2018-07-12 Thread Fabian Thorns
> > Best Regards > Robin Mettner > > ___ > lpi-examdev mailing list > lpi-examdev@lpi.org > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev > -- Fabian Thorns GPG: F1426B12 Directo

[lpi-examdev] IoT and Security in Schools/Universities

2018-03-06 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi there, our academic advisory committee is currently working on some topics related to IoT and Security. The group is mostly formed of teachers and professors who hold courses/lectures on these topics. If you're doing something similar and would like to join, let me know and I'll bring you in

[lpi-examdev] Extending LPIC-1 with the DevOps Tools Engineer

2018-04-18 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi there, what do you think: Would it be reasonable to let the DevOps Tools Engineer certification extend an existing active LPIC-1? Fabian -- Fabian Thorns <ftho...@lpi.org> GPG: F1426B12 Director of Certification Development, Linux Professional Ins

Re: [lpi-examdev] Extending LPIC-1 with the DevOps Tools Engineer

2018-04-19 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi Marek, On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 7:41 AM, Marek Anderson wrote: > I think so too. On a related note does Lpic 2 extend Lpic 1 validity? If > not, why not? > It does! And, an LPIC-3 extends both the candidate's LPIC-1 and LPIC-2. It's all about demonstrating that the

[lpi-examdev] LPIC-3 Objectives Discussion

2018-10-16 Thread Fabian Thorns
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[lpi-examdev] LPIC-300 Objectives

2018-10-16 Thread Fabian Thorns
in the exam, about the real relevance of FreeIPA and, in general, what a 'Mixed Environment' is in 2019. This is certainly not everything we should discuss for this exam, so speak up for whatever you consider relevant. Fabian -- Fabian Thorns GPG: F1426B12 Director of Certification Development

[lpi-examdev] LPIC-304 Objectives

2018-10-16 Thread Fabian Thorns
HA and virtualization)? - Notwork HA (bonding) - Is it still worth having a combined HA and virtualization certification? I'm sure there is more to discuss, so just follow up with whatever you have in mind :) Fabian -- Fabian Thorns GPG: F1426B12 Director of Certification Development, Linux

[lpi-examdev] LPIC-303 Objectives

2018-10-16 Thread Fabian Thorns
you will spot more discussion points in the objectives once you review them again. Fabian -- Fabian Thorns GPG: F1426B12 Director of Certification Development, Linux Professional Institute ___ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http

[lpi-examdev] 300/303: Where to put FreeIPA/SSSD?

2018-11-18 Thread Fabian Thorns
a reasonable use of the weights freed up by NT4 domains; and we might fill the gap it leaves in 303 with some basic pentesting (this should be discussed elsewhere, though). What do you think? Fabian -- Fabian Thorns GPG: F1426B12 Director of Certification Development, Linux Professional Institute

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-304 Objectives

2018-11-18 Thread Fabian Thorns
share them here. Fabian On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 4:38 PM Fabian Thorns wrote: > Hi there, > > let's discuss exam 304 in this thread. > > The current objectives are available here: > > https://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/LPIC-304_Objectives_V2 > > Some of you raised the

Re: [lpi-examdev] What does stand for Linux Extensions? in LPI 101

2018-12-31 Thread Fabian Thorns
Hi Bryan, On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 3:48 PM Bryan Smith wrote: I just wanted to note that, AFAIK, LPI objectives and exams cover only open > source, with a preference for Upstream built-in and not conflicting (e.g., > kernel.org). > For specific implementations, yes. But we also test how to join

Re: [lpi-examdev] What does stand for Linux Extensions? in LPI 101

2018-12-31 Thread Fabian Thorns
On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 4:31 PM Bryan Smith wrote: > Yes, EMC/VMware finally got their 'guest' support Upstream into kernel.org. > Not eveything is in there, but it's does include 'basic' driver > functionality that Oracle still keeps proprietary, and causes havoc. > > As far as your AD and V2V

Re: [lpi-examdev] 300/303: Where to put FreeIPA/SSSD?

2018-11-26 Thread Fabian Thorns
re, and as we lost the auth >> integration with openldap when 301 got removed, it's there in 300 doing >> little or nothing. >> >> IMHO a chapter or two on pentesting would make 303 way more attractive >> (students always ask me to extend a bit on attack tools: enumeration, &

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-300 Objectives

2018-11-26 Thread Fabian Thorns
this point can be canceled. In my work i doesn't see any NT4 > domain any more. > > Perhaps in the world are some NT$ Domains but i think this is a handful of > domains. And how big is the chance to met them? > > Best regards > > Dirk > > > > Am 16.10.2018 um

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-303 Objectives

2018-11-26 Thread Fabian Thorns
ithms all of which had to be set in the last years to disable > insecure suites. So candidates should not only see this in the field and > but should also be capable of setting these. > > Maybe have awareness of SSH CA. > > Best regards, > Markus > > > Am 18.10.2018 um 19:22

[lpi-examdev] Address Change for lpi-examdev

2019-01-07 Thread Fabian Thorns
on. The subscriptions and archives are migrated, so there should be no change other than the new address. Regards, Fabian -- Fabian Thorns GPG: F1426B12 Director of Certification Development, Linux Professional Institute ___ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev