[Pacemaker] Discussion about a "Cluster knowledge test"

[Darren.Mansell at opengi.co.uk]

Do you have a link to the online certification please?

-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Haas [mailto:florian.haas at linbit.com] 
Sent: 14 January 2010 09:34
To: pacemaker at oss.clusterlabs.org
Subject: Re: [Pacemaker] Discussion about a "Cluster knowledge test"

On 2010-01-14 10:06, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this post is a follow up to the remarks of LMB on the O'Reilly blog 
> about hte multiple choice test about cluster knowledge. I want to sum 
> up my comments about testing knowledge here.
> 
> I'd like to have a test about the knowledge of pacemaker clusters and 
> I'd be happy if we could implement this test in the framework of the 
> LPIC. A certification would be nice, something like a Certified Linux 
> Cluster [Admin|Engineer]

I repeat (as I said in yesterday's previous email), such a certification
already exists. It's available on-line, has no prerequisites other than
a web browser, and is available for a low certification fee for
everyone. It is in no way tied to our training offering; anyone can
purchase a certification account and take the test at any time.

> The test should be runable on Windows and Linux systems (or this 
> contradicts with LPIC) so everybody can check his knowledge at home. 
> At the moment I only know of Java for a framework for this. But I am 
> quite unhappy with the tool I used for the little first test baloon i
started.
> 
> I have an uneasy feeling about web based test because immideately the 
> question about hosting and the need for login arises.

We have that infrastructure in place.

Cheers,
Florian