102-500: Linux Administrator - 102 (LPIC-1 102)

The world’s largest and most recognized Linux certification

LPIC-1 is the first certification in the multi-level Linux professional certification program of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI). The LPIC-1 will validate the candidate's ability to perform maintenance tasks on the command line, install and configure a computer running Linux and configure basic networking.

The LPIC-1 is designed to reflect current research and validate a candidate's proficiency in real world system administration. The objectives are tied to real-world job skills, which we determine through job task analysis surveying during exam development.

Current version: 5.0 (Exam codes 102-500)

Objectives: 102-500

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this certification.

Requirements: Passing the 102 exams. Each 90-minute exam is 60 multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions.

Validity period: 5 years unless retaken or higher level is achieved.

Languages for exam available in VUE test centers: English, German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Spanish (Modern)

Languages for exam available online via OnVUE: English, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish

To become LPIC-1 certified the candidate must be able to:

◉ understand the architecture of a Linux system;

◉ install and maintain a Linux workstation, including X11 and setup it up as a network client;

◉ work at the Linux command line, including common GNU and Unix commands;

◉ handle files and access permissions as well as system security; and

◉ perform easy maintenance tasks: help users, add users to a larger system, backup and restore, shutdown and reboot.

Read More: 102-500: Linux Administrator - 102 (LPIC-1 102)

Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 tests ability to perform maintenance tasks with the command line, install and configure a computer running Linux and be able to configure basic networking.

Continue reading

101-500: Linux Administrator - 101 (LPIC-1 101)

The world’s largest and most recognized Linux certification

LPIC-1 is the first certification in the multi-level Linux professional certification program of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI). The LPIC-1 will validate the candidate's ability to perform maintenance tasks on the command line, install and configure a computer running Linux and configure basic networking.

The LPIC-1 is designed to reflect current research and validate a candidate's proficiency in real world system administration. The objectives are tied to real-world job skills, which we determine through job task analysis surveying during exam development.

Current version: 5.0 (Exam codes 101-500)

Objectives: 101-500

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this certification.

Requirements: Passing the 101 exams. Each 90-minute exam is 60 multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions.

Validity period: 5 years unless retaken or higher level is achieved.

Languages for exam available in VUE test centers: English, German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Spanish (Modern)

Languages for exam available online via OnVUE: English, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish

To become LPIC-1 certified the candidate must be able to:

◉ understand the architecture of a Linux system;

◉ install and maintain a Linux workstation, including X11 and setup it up as a network client;

◉ work at the Linux command line, including common GNU and Unix commands;

◉ handle files and access permissions as well as system security; and

◉ perform easy maintenance tasks: help users, add users to a larger system, backup and restore, shutdown and reboot.

Read More: 101-500: Linux Administrator - 101 (LPIC-1 101)

Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 tests ability to perform maintenance tasks with the command line, install and configure a computer running Linux and be able to configure basic networking.

Source: lpi.org

Continue reading

Open Government: Where Transparency, Crowdsourcing, and Open Source Software Meet

The past three decades have seen the global spread of a movement combining open data, public consultations, and support for grassroots initiatives under the term "open government." Of course, calls for government transparency go back decades: for instance, the landmark Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the U.S. was signed into law in 1966. But in the open source era, the combination of growing interest in crowdsourcing, data sharing, and basing decisions on data has given the term "open government" new force. And there is a subtle but tight link between open source software and open government.

First of all, free software drives many of the innovative ways governments have been engaging with their populations. Governments have always used the media to publicize their actions and policies, but now they are exploiting the new platforms made possible by the Internet for public consultations, polling, soliciting proposals, letting citizens "upvote" proposals, and ultimately letting the public determine new policies through productive, non-partisan debate. Much of the software used for this crowdsourcing is open source. Results of the policy decisions may also lead to open source apps. Examples can be found at The Top 37 Government Open Source Projects.

Read More: 202-450: Linux Engineer - 202 (LPIC-2 202)

But the influence of the open source movement on government is deeper, and hard to appreciate unless you were an activist for free software during the 1980s and 1990s. Back then, experts everywhere took it for granted that any useful new ideas had to come from...well, experts. The dominant mode of thought was elitist and individualist. The faceless mob could not be trusted to produce ideas that were better than mostly white, mostly male, mostly affluent people who had spent decades learning their academic discipline.

It was the open source movement that first challenged that paradigm. In combination with other research of the time, such as Eric von Hippel's astounding research into the role of customers in corporate innovation, the success of projects such as Linux, Wikipedia, and Apache (covered in another article in this series) persuaded governments and businesses that ordinary folks had valuable ideas and could work collaboratively to achieve them. It is fitting that we are celebrating anniversaries for Linux, Wikipedia and Apache this year.

The Next Stage in Open Data Sets

The most common manifestation of the open government movement is to take a step beyond FOIA and release data online. This data is most useful, not when packaged as PDFs or spreadsheets, but posted in a structured format consumable by programs. Open data sets have caught on everywhere from the Philippines to Great Britain. Certainly, this natural step can be transformational. A research project by the investigative group Muckrock suggests how journalists can derive new insights from data sets that other organizations have turned up through FOIA. This kind of research can extend the value of hard-won data.

And this has been a tough year for open data. Some governments have used the pandemic as an excuse to halt the release of data, gambling that open government activists and journalists will be too distracted or disempowered to fight for access.

Data sets have been available long enough for observers to state that the world is ready for a third stage beyond FOIA and beyond APIs. The earlier stages created laws and regulations allowing public access to government data, and setting up mechanisms such as web sites and APIs the facilitate access. The third wave takes conscious steps to make sure the data gets used: "publishing with purpose." One example is Data Ventures in New Zealand, a site set up by the government to work with potential data users. The goal of the third wave is to foster citizen data science, where non-experts can use data to answer questions in the public interest. Third wave activities include spreading the innovations created by national governments or affluent regions to their colleagues in regions that have less money and technical expertise.

Notable Recent Efforts

The rest of this article lists a few of the diverse open government initiatives worth celebrating. Because there are so many, I have focused on those that go beyond mere information-sharing, as discussed in the previous section. I have also made a special effort to find work in many different countries, and work that took place during this uniquely difficult year of COVID-19.

Many of these projects were initiated by or used the services of The GovLab, a research project at New York University. I work on projects at The GovLab from time to time.

Multicity challenges

In a multicity challenge, residents of five cities in different African countries were brought together for intensive consultations leading to the funding of a dozen projects chosen through a grassroots process. These projects range from promoting resilience in flood zones to supporting small artisans in their search for markets. The impacts also go far beyond the cities. One project, for instance, concerns biomass energy production generated from farm waste, while another grows crops in sea water. Another multicity challenge took place in Mexico.

COVID-19 data

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development examined 76 government sites over the past few months to find out how they were using data about COVID-19 to shape policies. Their report showed that responses focused on attacking the immediate effects of the pandemic, which is understandable. They made recommendations for long-term interventions based on data.

In the United States, The Atlantic carried out a huge crowdsourcing effort to collect COVID-19 data that governments maintained in isolated repositories. Large numbers of volunteers consulted sites across the country created the data sets. Results can inform our understanding of racial disparities and other under-researched aspects of the pandemic.

In Brazil, a broader project sponsored by the Linux Professional Institute, Brasil.io, has prepared large amounts of government data for viewing and analysis. The founder of this project was galvanized by the difficulty of getting information about COVID-19, which has hit the country particularly hard.

Many governments have released contact tracing apps, with varying success. One city  in the Philippines, Carmona persuaded more than 100,000 people to sign up for their app, called Digital Contact Tracer. Businesses and individuals alike are assigned unique QR codes, and individuals are asked to scan the QR code every time they visit a facility or meet another person.

Response to Zika

Before COVID-19, there was a Zika pandemic. Although it receded enough to be nearly forgotten today, it had heartbreaking effects on families during the mid-2010 decade. In 2017, more than 20 officials from a wide variety of Latin American countries and disciplines met online to discuss ways they could track and prevent Zika infections (PDF in Spanish). Results extended to wider questions of public health in Latin America.

Investigations of Artificial Intelligence in public life

Two cities carried out research into the impact of AI and its ethical implications. Barcelona produced a report from a conventional workshop drawing together experts, but Montreal carried out wider public discussions. Both reports called for accountability and transparency. Montreal focused a bit more on making positive use of AI, especially through education, but also stressed the importance of leaving humans in charge.

Prison mortalities

The MuckRock organization mentioned earlier gleaned data from more than 1,500 public record requests to reveal statistics about deaths among inmates. The article says, "The downloadable data is organized by state and county, and it includes information such as race, cause of death and custody status for each deceased inmate." The data extends only through 2019, but a similar effort today would probably tell us a lot about the catastrophic impact of COVID-19.

Source: lpi.org

Continue reading

The People behind the Learning Portal: Nikolas Kovacs, French translations

Linux Professional Institute (LPI) launched the Learning Portal in June 2019. The Learning Portal is the repository of all the Learning Materials for our exams. The whole project is managed by Dr. Markus Wirtz, manager Education Programs at LPI. We designed it as an international endeavour - learning is easier in your mother tongue! - hence we needed a team of authors, editors, and translators to design, write, and localize the body of lessons.

Also Read: LPIC-3 304: Linux Enterprise Professional Virtualization and High Availability

This series of interviews is a journey toward knowing better the People behind the Portal: the Linux and Open Source enthusiastic professionals who are making the Learning Portal possible.

By reading this series of interviews, you will know more about Contributors’ work, the peculiarities of translating IT educational material, and the challenges Contributors have to face restoring what could be lost in translation. And about why working on the Learning Portal is quite cool and nerdy. 

What is your academic and professional background?

I do a lot of writing on free and open source topics under the pen name Kiki Novak. Although I am translating LPI Learning Materials into French, my first language is German. I now live in Montpezat, in the Nîmes district in the south of France

When, and how, did you decide to use your skill in developing learning materials for Linux Professional Institute?

I came to be an LPI translator through a very unusual route. I have never taken an LPI exam (although I had once considered doing so). Instead, I discovered the learning materials while doing research for some of my own writing, as discussed in a https://blog.microlinux.fr/traductions-lpic/ blog posting in French. I realized that the LPI learning materials were much better than typical free online content, and decided to benefit fellow coders by translating them into French. I started working with the LPI office at that point.

What is your contribution, so far, to the Learning Portal, and what’s next for you in this project?

I have translated the first lessons of the LPIC-1 exams in French and will finish the complete 101 learning materials in summer.

As a certified professional and a developer of learning materials, you are familiar with both sides of the coin. What advice, therefore, would you give to those people who are studying for their LPI Exams?

 "All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life." (Goethe, Faust)

Learning Linux is not about answering multiple choice exams, so my advice is: get your hands dirty. Get comfortable with the usual suspects among Linux distributions. Install them using VirtualBox, Vagrant, or real hardware. Play with them like a kid playing with their Lego construction set. And most important: have fun!

The LPI Learning Portal is a community too. What is your experience with this community so far? What tools and features do you use in the process? What can you tell us about workflow? And what “opensourceness” can you recognize in a project that is about education?

I'm a newcomer in the LPI team, so my experience is very recent. There are some quite impressive talents around here. When I translated all the biographies, I stumbled over Andrew Mallett's Urban Penguin project, which is really nice. My tech reviewer is Mickael Rigonnaux, a former student of mine and a brilliant guy whom I brought along to the project. The common denominator here is that when all is said and done, we're simply folks eager to share our passion and our competence with the community, a bit like the old ladies in my village sharing recipes for pumpkin soup among themselves.

When I started to work on the translations, I had to get acquainted with OmegaT, a nifty keep-it-simple translation memory tool that I'm already quite comfortable with. Kudos to Markus Wirtz, whose job seems to boil down to herding cats. Fortunately we can rely on Git, another great piece of software provided by Linus Torvalds, to manage all that under the hood.

What are the specific hurdles you have to deal with while translating the Learning Materials in your mother tongue language? What are the possible “lost in translation” issues?

I don't really see any hurdles, but this is probably due to my background. I'm fluent in three languages, I've already published five tech books in French in the same area of expertise for which I'm translating (that is, Linux system administration), and in the late nineties I worked as a translator for some time.

So no hurdles, just fun.

What is your personal experience of the FOSS and Linux experience in your country?

As a global project, FOSS/Linux doesn't really have any national boundaries. But a few specifics apply to France. When I started using Linux 20 years ago, the most popular distribution here in France was Mandrake Linux, which was later rebranded to Mandriva. Back in those days, I even bought the boxed release sets, which were sold for about 50 to 60 euros and contained a printed handbook.

One notable French detail: the police force (Gendarmerie Nationale) uses Linux on most of their 90.000 desktops.

How do you see the impact of your work with the LPILP Team, and the development of projects such as the Learning Portal, in your Country in a few years? 

I think this will benefit a lot of people. When the first three lessons were published in French, I wrote a little article in my tech blog, mentioned already (https://blog.microlinux.fr/traductions-lpic/), which was shared in the "Journal du Hacker" and later the "Courrier du Hacker". I know as a fact from the stats page of my tech blog that technical information about Linux gathers quite a lot of visitors, the more so if it's solidly put together.

Source: lpi.org

Continue reading

Seven ways on how to engage your community

I was recently invited to give a talk on how to engage communities for the LaKademy 2020 online. For those not familiar with the event, it is the meeting of Latin American users and collaborators of the KDE community. There I came up with seven ways on how to engage your community and you can jump to the end of this article if you just want to jump to the chase.

Also Read: 102-500: Linux Administrator - 102 (LPIC-1 102)

I have been involved with free and open source communities for quite a long time and I am always trying to learn better ways to help them prosper. However, I have not yet given a talk on this very subject. So I did have to recall several of my memories and prepare a draft script. What you have here is basically this script, with some add-ons based on questions I got from the good people at LaKademy.

The chess club

The year was 1976 and I was in the sixth year of elementary school. Myself and Adroaldo, who soon became my best friend at the time (and also a lifelong friend) decided we would learn to play chess. We both had a chess set who, along with the tradicional pieces, also had square, carton pieces, which included a cheat-sheet on how to move them. Soon enough, we didn’t need anymore the carton pieces and started reading chess books on openings and the evolution of the game.

After a few months it became very boring just playing among the two of us and there were not too many people around us who were available to play chess. So we decided to teach our classmates how to play, using our two chessboards, during the breaks and after school. We were also able to convince our school to buy some chess sets and by the end of the year we already had dozens of people playing chess.

Paulo Nogueira was a public school, so most of the students' families lived close to it. When the summer vacations started, we moved our play into a small park nearby. There we held “championships” and we were even able to scratch some money to buy some prizes, usually very cheap chess pieces and used books. We then got to know of a chess competition happening in the capital of our State. We asked the school, our parents and small merchants of our region to give us money to hire a bus and also convinced some of the adults (along with a math teacher who was a great supporter of our juvenile passion for chess) to be our chaperons in the competition. I remember Adroaldo went very far and actually got an honorable mention.

We all grew up, moved into different schools and had very different career paths. Adroaldo first became a technician in agriculture and now he is the CEO of a big agricultural co-operative in the East Central region of Brazil. I first became an electronic technician, which led me to computers and now I work for the Linux Professional Institute. These dozens of months within our small chess community taught me a lot of lessons I still value.

User Groups

Let me jump now to 1992, when I started working for Tandem Computers which, at the time, was the major manufacturer of non-stop, massive parallel computers, some of them running Unix. As these equipment were extremely expensive, big financial institutions, stock exchanges, insurance and telecommunication companies were our big customers which, together, formed the ITUG, the International Tandem Users Group. Within Usenet the group had its mailing list, alt.comp.tandem-users, and they also hosted several meetings all over the world. There was even a yearly ITUG tape with several utilities freely exchanged among Tandem users and, by selling this tape the user group was able to support its activities. Thanks to ITUG, among several other things, I was able to have people from the Stock Exchange in Sao Paulo to get in touch with the Paris Stock Exchange and, thanks to this, plant the seeds of online trading in Brazil. And also, thanks to links in the Usenet, I got to know Linux in its very early stages.

I noticed the ITUG related quite well with the small chess club from my childhood. Equipment sales were more related to Tandem’s capability of making its passionate users talk freely about the good things of our hardware and partners software than our marketing initiatives. So, during my time within the company, where I ended as the sales director for the financial industry in 1995, pretty much all I did was try to establish between happy existing customers and the coming ones, always having them joining the user group.

Events

After leaving Tandem I came back to the place where I was born, in the South of Brazil, first as a partner of an Internet Service Provider along with a local, growing, University Centre and then I became its ICT manager, with a mission to start a development group who would create an academic ERP based on Free Software (there were already some fans of Linux and Open Source among us). In May, 2,000, while still developing our ERP, I knew, based on my previous experience, things tend to have success if you build a community around them. So we created an event called SAGU Development Seminar (SAGU was the name we gave our ERP). We got people from all over the country in our small town and gave them a CD with non-working code and several lessons on how to develop web applications with PHP and PostgreSQL. SAGU and other software developed by our group outgrew the limits of the University, originated a free software development co-operative and several spinoffs, which now provide jobs for hundreds of people.

The seven ways

The communities and projects I mentioned above are not the only ones I have been part of. I mentioned here the chess club, the Tandem Users Group and the SAGU group. I have been involved in several others along the years, mostly dedicated to free and open source software and social activities. I believe these examples, however, are good enough to give you some hints on how to engage people within communities and welcome newcomers.

1. Believe and be passionate in what you are doing and let people know. Facilitate the contact among the chess players and let them talk about their passion and teach others about the trade and its tools and learn new ones. Be extremely honest, do not engage in ideas you do not really believe in

2. Have a straight face. You will need to ask for resources, you will need to invite people to talk to your community.

3. Work on setting up stages for people to show up, other than yourself. If you are a community leader you tend to be invited for several events, take this opportunity to also give visibility to other members of your community.

4. Be focused. Know that one community will not solve all of the problems of the world. Concentrate on where your community can really help.

5. Be open to other communities. Together, several good willing communities can solve all of the problems of the world.

6. Communities have stories. People inside the community have stories. People relate very well with stories since the beginning of time. Have real, honest, engaging stories to tell.

7. Make your tools and resources available outside the community. Publish all educational material you use under a creative commons license. If you write software, make it available under a free and open source license in a place where people can easily see it. Also, make sure that everything you publish is attractive to a broad audience.

Source: lpi.org

Continue reading

Linux Professional Institute BSD Specialist

The BSD Specialist certification is part of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Open Technology certification program. 

The exam focuses on the practical skills required to work successfully in a FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD environment and tests the knowledge and skills needed to administer BSD operating systems.

The typical BSD Specialist certification holder is a system administrator of BSD operating systems. The certification holder has an understanding of the architecture of the BSD operating systems. This includes the ability to manage various aspects of a BSD installation, including the management of user accounts and groups, processes, file systems, installed software, and client networking configuration. The candidate is experienced in using standard BSD and Unix tools on the command line. 

Current version: 1.0 (Exam code 702-100)

Objectives: 702-100

Prerequisites: There is no prerequisite certification for taking the BSD Specialist Engineer exam. However, it is strongly recommended that a candidate has more than a year of experience in administering BSD systems of various kinds.

Requirements: Passing the BSD Specialist exam. The 90 minute exam is 60 multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions.

Validity period: 5 years

Languages for exam available in VUE test centers: English

To receive the BSD Specialist certification the candidate must:

◉ Have a working knowledge of BSD operating systems: FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD 

◉ Be able to install, manage, and configure BSD operating system

◉ Be able to configure hardware, set kernel parameters, and manage system security 

◉ Have basic knowledge in BSD system administration, job scheduling, and system automation

◉ Have basic network administration knowledge

Read More: 702-100: BSD Specialist

Source: lpi.org

Continue reading

Linux Essentials Learning Materials now in Italian

Linux Professional Institute (LPI) releases Italian translation of Learning Materials for Linux Essentials certificates.

The Learning Materials for the LPI’s introductory certificate level, Linux Essentials, are now available in Italian on the Learning Portal. Altogether, the Linux Essentials Learning Materials are thus provided in eight languages.

The Learning Portal is committed to develop and translate Learning Materials for its certifications, which in turn allows a much broader range of people around the world to supplement their open source education. 

Authors, translators, and reviewers of Learning Materials come from the LPI community. The other languages covered so far by the Learning Materials include English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, German, French and Hungarian. With the release of Learning Materials for Linux Essentials in Italian, LPI starts providing access to Italian speakers to valuable educational resources: a great way to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death.

“I am very proud to have contributed to the propagation of the free learning materials of the Linux Professional Institute. The translation from English into Italian of the courseware for the Linux Essentials certification will allow many Italians to deepen their knowledge of Linux and to move easily in the Open Source and Free Software world”, says Marco Colombo, translator.

Find the Italian version of the Linux Essentials Learning Materials here: https://learning.lpi.org/it/learning-materials/010-160/

Read More: 010-160: LPI Linux Essentials (Linux Essentials 010)

Linux Professional Institute Linux Essentials exam tests the candidate’s ability to use a basic command-line editor and demonstrate an understanding of processes, programs and components of the Linux operating system.

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this certification.

Requirements: Passing the Linux Essentials 010 exam. The Linux Essentials exam contains 40 questions and must be completed within 60-minutes.

Validity period: Lifetime

Continue reading

5 Best Linux Certifications in 2021

Linux has currently been gaining global recognition. Used in almost all the devices that we use in our day-to-day lives. Modeled on UNIX, Linux enables your system hardware and software to communicate with each other. Linux OS powers android, it is one of the most reliable Operating Systems. Furthermore, it is free and easy to install and distributed under an open-source license. Linux versions are called distributions, and listed as:

1. Mint

2. Debian

3. Ubuntu

4. openSUSE

5. Manjaro

6. Fedora

7. Elementary

8. Zorin

9. CentOS

10. Arch

Best Linux Certifications

If you have a Linux certification, you always have excellent career opportunities. Organizations are more interested in hiring resources who are capable of managing servers, schedule batches, cron jobs, apply load balances, and work entirely on shell script. Certifications keep you ahead of the crowd and increase your competitive advantage.

Once certified in Linux, you have the following career opportunities:

1. Systems Administrator/ System Engineer

2. Software Programmer

3. Linux Administrator/ Linux Engineer

4. DevOps Engineer

5. Python Developer

6. Network Engineer

Here we have listed the best Linux certifications for you to boost your career.

1. GCUX – GIAC Certified Unix Security Administrator

This certification hardens the candidate’s knowledge of Linux/Unix systems, Linux/Unix Digital Forensics, and Linux Application Security. This certification renders a candidate with the necessary abilities to secure Linux and Unix systems, handle security issues with multiple tools such as SSH, AIDE, and more. Cybersecurity enthusiasts can also pursue this certification. This certification intendsSecurity professionals & Administrators, Auditors, Incident Responders, Technical Experts of the UNIX/Linux Systems, and Information Security Analysts. This certification needs to be renewed every 4 years to ensure ongoing competency in the field of Information Security.

You can signup here.

2. Linux+ CompTIA

This certification covers the latest foundational skills and is a job-focused Linux Certification. It covers tasks performed in Linux distributions, Linux Command line, maintenance, installation, configuration, and networking. It provides hands-on experience in configuring, supporting, and monitoring servers that run the Linux Operating System. It focuses on security, storage, and visualization, kernel modules, enterprise-level device management, git & automation, server-side and command line, networking, and firewalls, troubleshooting, and SELinux.

You can signup here.

3. LPI (Linux Professional Institute)

It is a multi-level Linux Professional Certification Program. It has the following levels.

1. LPIC 1 – Linux Administrator

This certification enables a candidate to perform command-line maintenance tasks, install and configure a Linux system, and its basic networking. It validates a candidate’s ability to manage a real-world system administration. This certification does not require any prerequisites. The validity of this certification is 5 years. A candidate is required to pass both 101 and 102 exams to qualify for the certification. The main topics covered by this certification are:

1. System Architecture

2. Linux Installation

3. Package Management

4. GNU and Unix Commands

5. Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard and Devices

6. Shell & Shell Scripting

7. Desktops and Interfaces.

8. Administration

9. System Services

10. Fundamentals of Networking

11. Security

You can signup here.

2. LPIC 2 – Linux Engineer

It is the second of LPI’s multilevel professional certification. It enables the candidate to administer small to medium-sized networks. To qualify for this certification, the candidate needs to have an active LPIC -1 Certification. However, the LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 exams can be taken in any order. The validity of this certification is 5 years. This certification covers the following topics:

1. System StartUp

2. Linux Kernel

3. FileSystem and Devices

4. Capacity Planning

5. Advanced Storage Device Administration

6. Network Configuration & System Maintenance

7. File Sharing and Network Client Management

8. Domain Name Server

9. Web and Email

10. System Security

You can signup here.

3. LPIC 3 – 300 – Linux Enterprise Professional Certification

Mixed Environment: also named as LPIC – 3 300. It provides for an enterprise-level professional certification program that represents the highest level of proficiency in distribution-neural Linux. It requires a candidate to have an active LPIC – 2 certification. The validity of this certification is 5 years. It covers the following areas of interest:

1. OpenLDAP Configuration and Authentication Backend

2. Samba – Basics, Share Basics, User & Group Management

3. Samba – Name Services and Domain Integration

4. Working with Windows and Linux Clients.

You can signup here.

Apart from LPIC – 3 300, there are two more specialization certifications at this level. Passing any one of the three grants the certification for that specialty. Its prerequisites and validity periods are the same as that for LPIC 3. The other two certifications are:

2.1. LPIC-3 303 – Linux Enterprise Professional – Security

As the name suggests, the certification emphasis the security of the enterprise-wide Linux administration. Its areas of coverage span across Cryptography, Access Control, Operations Security, Applications Security, and Network Security.

You can signup here.

2.2. LPIC-3 304 – Linux Enterprise Professional – Virtualization & High Availability

This certification focuses on virtualization and high availability of the enterprise-wide Linux administration. It covers Virtualization and High Availability of Cluster Management and Cluster Storage.

You can signup here.

4. LFCS (Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator)

This certification is ideal for beginners in Linux System Administration. It evaluates candidates based on on-the-job task simulations and real-world scenarios. It equates to hands-on experience for prospective employers. This certification is conducted online and has a validity of 3 years. This certification needs no prior knowledge of the subject matter. Its prime areas of focus are:

1. Essential Commands, File Systems, and Features.

2. User and Group Management and System-wide environments

3. Operation of Running Systems, Boot, Reboot, Install, Configure, and Troubleshoot.

4. Service Configuration, DNS, SSH, HTTP and Virtual Machine Maintenance.

5. Networking, IP Routing, and synchronization

6. Storage Management, LVM Storage, RAID Devices, and configure File Systems.

You can signup here.

5. LFCE (Linux Foundation Certified Engineer)

This certification is for candidates with 3-5 years of Linux experience. It enables candidates to develop higher levels of expertise for more advanced job roles. It is a performance-based examination and focuses more on on-the-job scenarios. However, there are no prerequisites for this certification. This certification is valid for 3 years. The core domains of this certification are:

1. Essential Commands, File Systems, and Features.

2. User and Group Management and System-wide environments

3. Operation of Running Systems, Boot, Reboot, Install, Configure, and Troubleshoot.

4. Service Configuration, DNS, SSH, HTTP and Virtual Machine Maintenance.

5. Networking, IP Routing, and synchronization

6. Storage Management, LVM Storage, RAID Devices, and configure File Systems.

You can signup here.

6. Oracle Linux Administration Certification Paths

This certification path provides you with the necessary to the advanced foundation for the Oracle Linux Operating System. It is the only Linux distribution, optimized for Linux Operating System, which also includes Oracle Database Appliance, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle Exadata Database Machine, and Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine. They differ in their subject matters. We have listed them as per the certification below.

6.1. Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) | Oracle Linux 5 and 6 System Administrator

This certification covers the following areas of expertise:

1. Linux Essentials

2. Installing Oracle Linux

3. Understanding System Configuration Options

4. Managing Ksplice

5. Managing System Logging

6. Managing Users and Groups

7. Managing Storage Devices

8. Managing File Sharing

9. Managing Pluggable Authentication Modules

10. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Oracle Linux

11. Describing Oracle Linux Concepts

12. Understanding and Configuring the Linux Boot Process and Service Administration

13. Installing and Maintaining Packages

14. Automating Tasks

15. Managing Kernel Modules

16. Managing Filesystems and Swap on Oracle Linux

17. Managing the Network Configuration

18. Using Open SSH

19. Managing Linux Security

20. Managing Oracle on Oracle.

You can signup here.

6.2. Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) | Oracle Linux 6 System Administrator

The main areas of focus in this certification are:

1. Btrfs Filesystem

2. Linux Containers (LXC)

3. Oracle Cluster File System 2

4. Core Dump Analysis

5. Managing Storage

6. Configuring and maintaining BIND

7. Virtualization with Linux

8. Control Groups

9. Advanced Storage Administration

10. Advanced Software Package Management

11. Dynamic Tracing with Dtrace

12. Configuring Networks and Network Services

13. Managing SELinux

14. XFS Filesystem

15. Managing Web and Email Services

You can signup here.

6.3. Oracle Certified Specialist (OCS) | Oracle Linux 6 Certified Implementation Specialist

This certification is for those with a strong foundation in the implementation of Oracle Linux solutions. An up-to-date and proven work experience is required to pursue this training. This certification is more focused on members of the Oracle Partner Network who, on its completion, would be recognized as OPN Certified Specialists. This certification covers the following topics:

1. Introduction to Oracle Linux

2. Linux Boot Process

3. Oracle Linux Package Management

4. Automate Tasks and System Logging

5. Oracle Linux File Systems and Storage Administration

6. Basic Security Administration

7. Installing Oracle Linux 6

8. Oracle Linux System Configuration and Process Management

9. Ksplice Zero Downtime Updates

10. User and Group Administration

11. Network Administration

12. Oracle Linux System Monitoring and Troubleshooting

You can signup here.

Red Hat provides a whole lot of certifications, segregated as per expertise and specialization level. The certifications need to be qualified in a particular order.

7. Red Hat Level

Out of the many, we have listed 3 main certifications to begin your journey. The rest of the certifications depend on your area of expertise and work experience.

7.1. RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administrator)

This certification enables you to perform the core system administration tasks in Red Hat Linux Environments. An RHCSA certification enables you to:

1. Handle files and directories, command-line environments, and documentation.

2. Operate running systems, identify processes, run Virtual Machines and Control Services

3. Storage Configuration

4. File System Configuration

5. Manage Core Services

6. Manage Users and Groups.

7. Manage Security and SELinux Configuration

You can signup here.

7.2. RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer)

A candidate needs to be a qualified RHCSA to earn this certification. An RHCE can automate Red Hat Enterprise Linux tasks, integrate and automate emerging Red Hat technologies. The new RHCE certification, based on Linux 8, focuses on Linux System Administration Task Automation using Ansible and Shell Scripting. This certification needs renewal every 3 years.

You can signup here.

7.3. RHCA (Red Hat Certified Architect)

This program can adapt to a variety of requirements. It refers to RHCE, RHCEMD (Red Hat Certified Enterprise Microservices Developer), or RHCJD (Red Hat Certified JBoss Developer). Two RHCA certifications can be acquired. They are RHCA – Infrastructure and RHCA – Enterprise Applications. Candidates can choose to follow any or both of the learning paths.

You can signup here.

Read More: LPI Certifications

Continue reading

LPI Members to vote for the Board of Directors

Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is encouraging its Members to vote for its Board of Directors. The Nominating Committee and members have compiled a list of promising candidates. Voting will open on April 12, 2021 and remain open until the day of the AGM in June. The results will be announced at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the members in June.

Board elections are held annually, coinciding with the AGM. Well-known candidates from the IT industry, all of whom are or have been involved with open source in their lives, are candidates for election, coming from all parts of the world; from Asia, Europe, and Africa as well as from South and North America. 

LPI has now published the list of candidates for the Board of Directors on its website. An overview page around this year's election provides all information, data and background information. 

"We're all about involving the community, that's why our members decide the Board of Directors and thus the future course of the Linux Professional Institute," says Executive Director, G. Matthew Rice. 

Those who want to vote have the opportunity to become a member by joining before May 15, 2021 at 12:00/12h UTC.

LPI made the decision to transform into a member-based organization in 2015 and has been working on the appropriate structures ever since. The new form of openness is an important element for the non-profit organization to encourage open source communities globally. "Our mission is to promote the use of open source by supporting the people who work with it. The best way to do that is to involve people around the world and listen to them," said Kenneth Armstrong, Community Manager and Returning Officer for the election.

Source: lpi.org

Continue reading