[BSDcert] Ideas on BSD Certifications

[Mikel King]

Ceri Davies wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:59:43PM +0100, Jacek Artymiak (devGuide.net) wrote:
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>>Jim Brown wrote:
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>>>>>On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:28:40 +0100, Jacek Artymiak (devGuide.net)
>>>>><jacek at devguide.net> wrote:
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>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>5) BSD OS vs. BSD technology certification.  That begs for a separate
>>>>>>treatment, so perhaps the certification ought to have three levels:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>-- BSD OS administration and networking
>>>>>>-- advanced BSD networking
>>>>>>-- BSD security
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>>>>>>
>>>>>In the BSD OS administration and networking curriculum I feel there
>>>>>should be module that specializes in Migration from other environments
>>>>>to BSD, this will specify safe and standard practices for migration,
>>>>>Or should it be under another level ? what do you think?
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>I agree.  I think we should have migration modules at all levels.
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>>>Do you see this as a separate certification- or just a topic
>>>that should be covered in the core BSD certification?
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>>I wouldn't want that to be a separate certification.  I don't think it
>>would make sense anyway.  Perhaps an optional extension module?  Say
>>you'd have an option to take:
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>>a) the core BSD security certification exam
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>Hmm.  Now I have to know netfilter/ipchains to get a BSD cert?
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>Ceri
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I am concerned about bloating the certs. What one person feels is basic 
is advanced to another. I think beyond basic security such as initial 
out of the box hardening or locking down you inetd.conf for instance 
which would be common to all BSDs, everything else should be left to the 
elective advanced certs that are say OS specific. These first two certs 
should really be the basic minimal qualifications to administer a BSD 
box across the board. Once you start throwing in all of the various 
package/port methods, security theorems, et cetera it becomes a platform 
for enforcing/validating ones agenda rather than a proper cert. Again 
I'm just concerned.


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