LPIC-305

Introduction

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

Topics to Be Considered for Coverage

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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

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.