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September 2004
Certification: Changes to SCLP and other Certifications
by Emmett Dulaney
As summer winds down, a number of vendors are in full swing making changes to their existing Linux/Unix certifications. In the recent past, I ıve looked at the changes underway at CompTIA in regard to the Linux+ certification. It is undergoing an update and overhaul aimed to make it more timely and relevant. This is far from the only certification currently getting such scrutiny.
This month, the biggest transformation Iıll present is what is happening to the SCLP certification that just went live. Iıll also look at some other vendorsı changes, including additional changes at CompTIA, and try to bring everything that is happening in certification up to date.
SCLP to NCLP
Last year, Novell went on a buying spree and invested heavily in Linux. One of their purchases was SuSE — the vendor of one of the most well-known (particularly outside of the United States) flavors of Linux. At the time of the acquisition, SuSE was finalizing a number of levels of certifications, the first of which was to be SCLP: SuSE Certified Linux Professional.
In June of 2004, the SCLP certification went live as planned. The requirements for obtaining the certification are passing three multiple-choice/ fill-in-the-blank computer-administered exams. The first two are the LPI 101 and 102 tests on generic Linux, allowing the candidate to obtain LPI Level I certification. The third test — SL 102 — is specific to SuSE and focused on the items that they promote in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (YaST, Postfix, and so on).
Less than one month after going live, Novell announced that they were changing the certification, with the changes to be effective in January of 2005.
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