Difference between revisions of "LPIC-305"

Revision as of 13:29, 10 September 2010

Introduction

The description of the entire LPIC-3 programme is listed here.

LPI is just getting underway in the development of the next LPIC-3 Enterprise exam. This exam will cover Mail and Messaging Services.

The main milestones to be achieved are:

1. Consult with industry, partners and communities on requirements
2. Create draft objectives
3. Perform a JTA (Job Task Analysis) survey to determine objective weighting
4. Develop exam content (aka exam items)
5. Have a 305 Beta exam period for public feedback and testing
6. Evaluation JTA and Beta exam results
7. Launch final 305 exam

We are commencing this milestone 1 as described above and would like to have the final exam launch in 2011.

Topics to Be Considered for Coverage

Please add to the discussion on the lpi-examdev mailing list:

   http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev

This is a brief list of topics under consideration:

Mail Services

• E-mail Concepts and Troubleshooting
• MTA (Postfix and/or Sendmail and/or Exim)
• IMAP/POP services (courier and/or dovecot and/or uw-imap)
• Virus scanning (Amavis)
• Spam filtering (SpamAssasin)
• MUA (Mail User Agents aka e-mail clients)
• Secure POP, IMAP, SMTP (setting up certificates, configuration)
• Integration with LDAP and/or MySQL
• greylisting
• blacklisting and RBLs

Messaging Services

• Messaging Servers (OpenFire and/or Jabberd)
• Messaging clients (Pidgin, Kopete)
• Messaging protocols (XMPP)
• Integration with LDAP and/or MySQL
• IRC clients and servers (maybe)

The Minimally Qualified Candidate for This Exam

This is a description of a Linux professional that is just barely qualified to pass the LPI Level 3 Linux exams. This hypothetical person is called the Minimally Qualified Candidate (MQC). Standards on the Level 3 exams should be set so that this person (and anyone more able) would pass but anyone less able would not pass.

An LPI certified Level 3 Linux professional (designated LPIC-3) should have the technical capability to perform system administration at the enterprise level. A LPIC-3 certification holder should be able to understand, plan roll-outs, install, configure, maintain and troubleshoot the technologies being tested. These technologies differ for each exam but the level of ability is at an enterprise level.

The LPIC-3 MQC typically (Yes, some of these bullets are specific to particular exams in the LPIC-3 series):

• Has installed and maintained Linux on a number of computers for various purposes for a number of years.
• Has integration experience with diverse technologies and operating systems.
• Has professional experience as, or training for, an enterprise level Linux professional. (Including having experience as a part of another role.)
• Is comfortable with advanced and enterprise levels of Linux administration including installation, management, security, troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Is able to use opensource tools to measure capacity planning and troubleshooting resource problems.
• Is able create scripts in Bash or Perl or has knowledge of at least one system programming language (such as C).
• Is able to plan, architecture, design, build and implement a full environment using E-mail and Messaging services as well as measure the capacity planning and security of the services.