Ubuntu Professional Certification announced

Ubuntu and LPI have announced the Ubuntu Professional Certification, using LPI’s LPIC-1 distro-neutral certification as a base. This exam will provide certification of skills on Ubuntu for system administrators.

The Ubuntu certification will consist of a single exam on top of LPI’s existing 101 and 102 exams. This will give candidates the advantage of an existing global standard, LPIC-1, plus the “Ubuntu Certified Professional” status. The exam is being developed by LPI’s product development team and Ubuntu community members from around the globe. The exam is expected to be completed in early May with the first paper exams being available in mid-May to qualified LPIC-1 candidates who are attending LinuxWorld Johannesburg.

While not at the same level as the RHCE since the LPIC-1 standard is for a junior system administrator, the Ubuntu Professional Certification is a great step forward in helping organisations adopt Ubuntu and Ubuntu-derived distributions such as Impi because they can have a measure of the skillset of their staff.

For entry level user training, there is the ICDL (International Computer Driving Licence).

PenguinLabs founder Morgan Collett holds an LPIC-1 certification and assisted with setting the Ubuntu Professional Certification exam.