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Revision as of 10:35, 13 September 2010
Contents
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:
- Consult with industry, partners and communities on requirements
- Create draft objectives
- Perform a JTA (Job Task Analysis) survey to determine objective weighting
- Develop exam content (aka exam items)
- Have a 305 Beta exam period for public feedback and testing
- Evaluation JTA and Beta exam results
- 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)
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.
Community Comments
Please add your comments or see above about the lpi-examdev mailing list.
