Linux Professional Institute Offers Discounted Certification Exams at LinuxWorld Cologne

October 30, 2006; 03:49 AM
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), (http://www.lpi.org), will offer discounted certification exams to attendees of LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Cologne 2006 at 11:00 and 15:00 on November 14-16, 2006. Exams will be available in German and English and include all LPIC-1 (101 and 102) and LPIC-2 (201 and 202) exams, both MySQL 5.0 certification exams (administrator and developer) and the Ubuntu Professional exam. This will be the first time that the Ubuntu Professional exam will be offered at a LinuxWorld event in Germany.

Three leading companies in the German Linux business, "Heinlein Professional Linux Support", "Linup Front" and "SerNet", are supporting LPI's participation at LinuxWorld Cologne by offering prizes for those candidates who obtain the ten highest test scores on their LPI exams during LinuxWorld. First prize will be a one-week LPI-Level-2 training at Heinlein Akademie in Berlin with accomodation, catering and evening program all inclusive (see http://www.heinlein-support.de/web/akademie/kurse/lpi2). Second to fifth prize is a "Self-Study-Kit for LPI201" from "Linup Front", for the preparation to the LPI 201 exam (see http://www.linupfront.de/cgi-bin/shop?op=doc&doc=ssk201⟨=de) and sixth to tenth prize is the book "Samba 3 für Unix/Linux-Administratoren", written by staff members of the company "SerNet" (see http://www.sernet.de/Samba/Buch.html).

All exams will be offered in "Presse-Center" of the "Congress-Centrum Koelnmesse, CC-Ost, 2.OG" on all three days of the exposition. LinuxWorld attendees will pay 60,- EUR for the LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 exams--a 50% discount off the regular price. The Ubuntu Professional exam will be available at a discounted fee of 75,- EUR for UBUNTU community members and 85,- EUR to all other LinuxWorld participants. The MySQL exams are offered at a 50% discount to all conference participants at 85,- EUR. As with LPI exams, all candidates can pay for their exams at the exam room by cash.

All LPI and Ubuntu Professional candidates must pre-register at the LPI website for an LPI ID number at http://www.lpi.org/en/lpi/english/certification/register_now. Exam candidates must bring valid photo identification and their LPI ID number to the exam lab. Exam candidates for MySQL exams must also obtain a MySQL certification ID from the MySQL website at http://www.mysql.com/certification/signup and must also bring valid photo identification and their MySQL certification ID number to the exam events. Due to limited seating at the event candidates for all exams are advised to pre-register at http://lpievent.lpi-german.de

During LinuxWorld Cologne, LPI also invites interested Linux professionals to volunteer to write the "beta" exam for their LPIC-3 certification at 11:00 and 14:30 on November 14-16. This volunteer effort will enable LPI to test their LPIC-3 exams for quality, accuracy and relevancy. The LPIC-3 certification is scheduled for release in January 2007. Similar "beta" exam lab events are scheduled in 2006 at locations around the world and will involve over 300 Linux professionals. Please contact Klaus Behrla (behrla_at_lpi-german.de), Director of Communications, LPI e.V., if you are interested in participating in the LinuxWorld Cologne LPIC-3 event or register at this website for the beta exams: http://lpievent.lpi-german.de. Details on the LPIC-3 certification program can be found at LPI's public twiki at: https://group.lpi.org/cgi-bin/publicwiki/view/Examdev/LPIC-3. LPI also invites Linux professionals and industry representatives to provide input on the Job Task Analysis (JTA) for LPIC-3.

LPI will also host an information booth at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Cologne at Booth E23 in Hall 11.2 of the "Koelnmesse". For further information on LPI's participation at LinuxWorld Cologne please contact LPI e.V., E-Mail: [email protected].

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is an internationally recognized, vendor-independent organization advocating and assisting the professional use of Linux, Open Source and Free Software, through the certification of Linux professionals. Established as a non-profit organization in 1999, LPI is community based and supported. LPIs certification program is delivered worldwide in multiple languages at over 7,000 testing locations and is supported by an affiliate network spanning five continents. The organization has delivered over 120,000+ LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 exams and 35,000+ certifications, globally, since the programs inception.