Finally, You Can Now be a 'Certified' Ubuntu Sys-Admin/Linux User (itsfoss.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/26/0141222/finally-you-can-now-be-a-certified-ubuntu-sys-adminlinux-user
- Source link: https://news.itsfoss.com/canonical-academy/
> Focusing on real-world scenarios, Canonical Academy [2]aims to foster practical skills rather than theoretical knowledge. The end goal? Getting professionals ready for the actual challenges they will face on the job. The learning platform is already live with its first course offering, the System Administrator track (with three certification exams), which is tailored for anyone looking to validate their Linux and Ubuntu expertise.
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> The exams use cloud-based testing environments that simulate real workplace scenarios. Each assessment is modular, meaning you can progress through individual exams and earn badges for each one. Complete all the exams in this track to earn the full Sysadmin qualification... Canonical is also looking for community members to contribute as beta testers and subject-matter experts (SME). If you are interested in helping shape the platform or want to get started with your certification, you can visit the Canonical Academy website.
The sys-admin track offers exams for Linux Terminal, Ubuntu Desktop 2024, Ubuntu Server 2024, and "managing complex systems," [3]according to an official FAQ . "Each exam provides an in-browser remote desktop interface into a functional Ubuntu Desktop environment running GNOME. From this initial node, you will be expected to troubleshoot, configure, install, and maintain systems, processes, and other general activities associated with managing Linux. The exam is a hybrid format featuring multiple choice, scenario-based, and performance-based questions..."
"Test-takers interested in the types of material covered on each exam can review [4]links to tutorials and documentation on our website ."
The FAQ advises test takers to use a Chromium-based browser, as Firefox "is NOT supported at this time... There is a known issue with keyboards and Firefox in the CUE.01 Linux 24.04 preview release at this time, which will be resolved in the CUE.01 Linux 24.10 exam release."
[1] https://news.itsfoss.com/canonical-academy/
[2] https://ubuntu.com/blog/introducing-canonical-academy
[3] https://canonical.com/academy/faq
[4] https://canonical.com/academy/self-study
Sounds like a cash-grab (Score:2)
I mean "certified Linux user"? What does that mean? I can log-in?
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It means if enough people earn the title Certified Linux User, we can finally state it's the Certified Year of the Linux Desktop!
Personally, I'm trying to figure out why a sysadmin-level exam would start at a Gnome login.
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When I was in college they taught classes on how to use microsoft word.
Do they still do that?
OTOH as a windows user I would say an advanced windows user is way more capable of doing stuff on windows than a novice because windows hides the ability to do anything particularly useful and actively fights you when trying to do some other things. Windows 12 will probably make you read a pop-up and press OK whenever you want to use the filemanager (AI will just look up whatever you want bro, you don't need that da
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Yeah it's just like an app nowadays. 20 years back trying red-hat meant log-in was top tier certification !
You had to re-partition disk 5 times, re-install grub a few times and figure out grub cmd line, build and modprobe some kernel modules, get a binary blob for your softmodem, spend a week figuring out your monitor specs to fix x.org configuration files, keep doing ctrl-alt-backspace and looking at the big X on a grey screen, maybe boot into single user mode to reset root password.
While 1 guy was assisti
Get your act together (Score:4, Funny)
> "The FAQ advises test takers to use a Chromium-based browser, as Firefox "is NOT supported at this time... There is a known issue [...] will be resolved in the CUE.01 Linux 24.10 exam release."
Maybe they need to take/pass their own exams? No Firefox = invalid site. There are essentially only two browsers, and they can't handle that extraordinary amount of diversity?
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And they're talking about 24.10 in future tense! When was this written?
lmao who cares (Score:1)
Lesson 1 - does the buggy new version of "date" written in rust prevent the Ubuntu update functionality from working? Yes it does. Lesson 2 - What are you going to do about it? Install a better distro that actually gives a shit about engineering principles.
check...check...MATE (Score:2)
"....a functional Ubuntu Desktop environment running GNOME." The only functional GNOME desktop is GNOME-2 , that is MATE-1.26 . The post-mod Gnome-3+ desktops that Ubuntu pimps are randomly changing septic cesspits for the casual ( even long time ) Ubuntu user. I run both Ubuntu/Ubuntu-Mate 24.04 and when I updated Ubuntu I lasted a week on Gnome-X. My young niece loved it and thought U-Mate UI "old-fashion". I said .... "right, like rye bread or coffee ice-creame." She laughed
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Yeah, when they said "GNOME" my eyes rolled. I know exactly nobody that uses a 'modern' GNOME desktop under Linux. Nobody. Cinnamon, MATE, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, whatever, but not GNOME. I have no idea why on earth Ubuntu defaults to Gnome.
Really, most people are ditching Ubuntu anyway for Mint. But at least most everything learned in a class or "cert" for Ubuntu will apply to Mint, except for the Snap crap.
I've been certified for a long time (Score:2)
Just ask my wife!
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I think you're confusing "certified" with "certifiable".
Companies that care about certifications (Score:2)
...deserve people who think certifications are meaningful.
OK, so they are meaningful, but not in the way companies think.
Certifications mean that the person is
1) able to take a class
2) able to retain enough to pass a test
That's not nothing, granted. But does it mean that the person actually knows, in this case, how to administer an Ubuntu system? Nope, not even close.
My cousin took one of these classes and got certified. But I would *never* trust him with my computer.
Lessons? (Score:2)
I've searched all over their academy but can't seem to find lessons specifically written for these exams. Has any one else found them? I'm very interested in performing these courses but being slightly above average in my Linux skills will never do. The overview for the first exam alone, The Linux Terminal, has more than a few skills there I have never attempted.