From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 12 22:22:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [63.145.197.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ADF637B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:22:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reed@reedmedia.net) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14ciC5-0003oc-00; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:22:05 -0800 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:22:05 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: BSD or Linux or "generic" certification Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am helping a local community college plan its BSD/Linux/Unix curriculum. Since these courses are for its technology training center, they desire that the classes help prepare for an official certification. In one of my classes, I used a BSD for the majority of the demonstrations, lessons and course work. Since, I am planning the curriculum and organizing the marketing, I will be pushing to balance BSD as much as Linux. Today, I was told that I should focus on a "industry-known" certification -- hopefully Sylvan Prometric-recognized. From looking at Sylvan Prometric's site, I see mention of a new Comptia certifications for Linux -- but they appear to be in the beginnings of development. In my searches, I have not found anything about BSD certifications. I am hoping I can find a certification that is generic -- so I can equally use BSD in my courses. I have found one generic certification from SAGE, but, as far as I can tell, it is also in the very beginnings of development. Does anyone know of any generic Unix certifications? I have also looked at SAIR (which focuses on GNU and Linux) and LPI (Linux Professional Institute). In addition, I have researched on starting a certification that can apply to BSD and Linux. From following the LPI articles and news for the past couple(?) years, it appears that either it is extremely hard to get a certification developed -- or they are just slow or stuck in some bureaucracy. It sure seems like a beginning (Level 1 or Junior sysadmin-type) certification can be developed a lot faster than a year. In fact, I believe it can be done within a few months. (The hardest part may be getting Sylvan Prometric or another industry-known testing facility to recognize the certification.) Is anyone interested in helping develop a BSD (or generic Unix) certification track? Does anyone know of any BSD (or other generic Unix) certifications in development? If I can't find one soon (within the month), I'll probably choose LPI and balance my course work around it. Any other ideas or suggestions? Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message