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Revision as of 11:33, 13 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.

How To Add to This Discussion

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

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

This page will be updated as we progress. Alternatively, register on this wiki and add your comments below.


Topics to Be Considered for Coverage

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)

Comments

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.