[LUG] LPI

["Matthew Browning" <M.Browning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I mention this purely as an item of possible interest:

I`ve just done level 1 of the Linux Professional Institute certification
programme.

I am aware that qualifications such as this are not worth a whole lot
but I feel that there are a few benefits:

1. If your employer has a contractual obligation to encourage
self-development, this is quite a good one to do because it is very
cheap (GBP100 for the exam) and won`t gobble up their budget.  That`s
how I did it.

2. The requirements of the course force you comprehensively to cover
areas that you might not otherwise address.

3. On a personal level, you can find out whether you are any good or not
;)

4. (Possibly) indicates to a future employer a willingness to learn etc.


The LPI is (sort of) an Open Source project, insofar as an examination
can be; it is compiled by a community effort and you are invited to
contribute improvements at the end.  More information can be found at:

http://www.lpi.org/


If anyone has any interest in this, please feel free to mail me
off-list.  I can let you have names of people to contact to sort out an
exam, point you in the direction of some really good training materials
(O`Reilly, IBM etc.) and maybe pass on a couple of tips about what *not*
to revise (anything vendor-specific or GUI based, notably).


Nice day today.  MB.

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