Ubuntu Engineer certification

[Wander Boessenkool]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 17:24 +0500, Mustafa Abbasi wrote:
> i know this is a bit off topic but 
> is there any type of online linux training that is low-cost/free

IBM has pdf's available to help you train for the LPIC-1
(http://www.lpi.org) certification
(http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/l-dw-linux-lpir21-i.html),
and http://snow.nl/dist/xhtmlc/ has a tutorial for LPIC-2.

If you want a practice exam for the LPI-101 exam you can find one at
http://kanslozebagger.org/oefenexamen-lpi-101 .
Practice tests for the other LPI-exams will come online there as the
group I'm training progresses through their exams.

> and one can give the exam online.
> i don't need to much advancement. and i wont be able to pratice much
> either when school begin in august.
> but i think some sort of linux training would look really good on my
> resume/application when i apply to college next year.

There is no certification (that I am aware of) for GNU/Linux that you
can take as an online-exam. But you might want to take some LPI-exams if
you don't mind paying around US$100,- per exam.


> 
> On 7/11/05, Thomas Hood < jdthood at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>         On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:49:55 +0200, Adi Attar wrote: 
>         > Some of us at Ubuntu are currently working on an engineer
>         certification
>         > programme, a system administration type certification, based
>         on the LPI
>         > certification.
>         
>         Please note that the designation 'engineer' is legally
>         protected in some 
>         jurisdictions.  In Canada, for example, no one can call
>         him/herself an
>         engineer who is not a member of a professional
>         organization.  To become
>         a member of one of the recognized professional organizations
>         the
>         candidate must have a university degree and other
>         qualifications.
>         
>         Microsoft has lost a series of cases on this issue, most
>         recently in
>         Quebec Superior Court.
>         
>            http://www.oiq.qc.ca/whatsnew/afficher-communiques.html?441
>         
>         The professional organizations say that they intend to protect
>         the title
>         'engineer' to the full extent of the law.
>         
>         In any case, system administrators are not engineers in the
>         usual sense 
>         of the term.  They are operators or technicians.  Of course,
>         these days
>         everyone wants to have a job with a cool job title and since
>         science
>         and engineering have good reputations, everyone wants to be a
>         Foo
>         Scientist or a Baz Engineer. 
>         
>         Please try to be less stupid than Microsoft and Novell on this
>         issue.
>         If you want to certify someone's abilities as a technician
>         then give
>         them a Ubuntu Technician certificate.  The words
>         'Professional',
>         'Craftsman', 'Magician', etc. are all freely available too.
>         
>         --
>         Thomas Hood
>         
>         
>         --
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>         ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> 
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