CyberStateU.com Offers Industry's First Web-based Linux Professional Institute Certification Training.Business Editors/Technology and Education Writers LAFAYETTE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)---June 20, 2000 CyberStateU.com (www.CyberStateU.com), the first company to deliver technical certification training via the Internet, today announced the availability of its web-based Linux Professional Institute Certification “LPIC” redirects here. For the LaTeX package[1], see lpic (software). The Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) is a certification in the field of Linux. Each LPIC level requires successful completion of two exams for certification. (LPIC LPIC Linux Professional Institute Certification LPIC Local Primary Interexchange Carrier LPIC Linear Parallel Interference Cancellation LPIC Lawyer's Professional Indemnity Corporation (Ontario) ) Level-1 program for IT professionals. The new e-learning track will prepare students for the Linux Professional Institute's (LPI (Lines Per Inch) The number of lines printed in a vertical inch. (language) LPI - A PL/I interpreter for IBM PCs and workstations. ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/mirrors/msdos/pli/runpli1a.arc. E-mail: <rcg@lpi.liant.com>. ) rigorous LPIC Level-1 certification exams. Backed by the leaders in the rapidly growing Linux market, LPIC is quickly emerging as the dominant open-source certification program and the de-facto benchmark for Linux skills. The CyberStateU.com Linux e-learning curriculum maps directly to the certification objectives established by LPI. CyberStateU.com is the first company to offer Linux training that has been specifically created to prepare students for certification. CyberStateU.com's unique educational methodology, the Synergy Learning System, offers students unparalleled quality and flexibility in preparing for certification. The LPIC Level 1 exams are performance-based and assess a candidate's proficiency in basic Linux administration, troubleshooting and support. "We are excited to see CyberStateU.com rolling out the first online training class targeted at LPI's certification exams," said Dan York, president of the LPI board of directors. "This represents a major milestone in the support for LPI and reaffirms our belief that candidates should have many methods of preparing for our exams. CyberStateU.com has developed an e-learning solution that will enable students to prepare for the LPIC exams from anywhere in the world." While the LPIC is widely recognized as a premier network certification title, there is a shortage of professionals who possess the skills necessary to hold this title. CyberStateU.com will increase the number of skilled Linux professionals by providing a solution that is available anywhere, anytime, and at a reasonable price. The LPIC Level 1 training program, which is comprised of two courses, is available from CyberStateU.com for only US$995. "Our Linux e-learning program prepares participants to be fully certified at the LPIC Level-1. Once students successfully complete our LPIC Level 1 program, they have the foundation for supporting a Linux environment, including the ability to install, configure and network a Linux workstation, and perform regular maintenance tasks," said David James David James may refer to:
About CyberStateU.com CyberStateU.com is the leading interactive e-learning company, having delivered more than 50,000 distance learning courses to IT professionals and computer telephony See CTI, VoIP and IP telephony. Computer Telephony - Computer Telephone Integration specialists worldwide. CyberStateU.com was founded in March 1994 and is headquartered in Lafayette, CA. The company's investors include Sigma Partners, iMinds, Novus Ventures, Compass Technology Partners, and Stanford University. More information is available at www.cyberstateu.com or by calling (925) 299-2000. About LPI The Linux Professional Institute is a community project to develop professional certification for the Linux operating system. Established as a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. focused on defining distribution-neutral and vendor-neutral certification standards, LPI involves a unique blend of hundreds of volunteers and professionals in many different capacities and encourages public involvement through mailing lists and its website of www.lpi.org. LPI's multi-level program of exams is administered globally through test centers operated by Virtual University Enterprises (VUE See HP-VUE. VUE - Visual User Environment: a desktop manager for Unix from Hewlett-Packard. ), a division of NCS (Network Call Signaling) CableLabs version of MGCP. See MGCP/MEGACO. NCS - Network Computing System: Apollo's RPC system used by DEC and Hewlett-Packard.The protocol has been adopted by OSF. . Major financial sponsorship of LPI is from Platinum Sponsors of Caldera caldera: see crater. caldera Large, bowl-shaped volcanic depression that forms when the top of a volcanic cone collapses into the space left after magma is ejected during a violent volcanic eruption. The term is Spanish for “caldron. Systems, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Linuxcare, Maxspeed, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , SuSE Linux AG and TurboLinux as well as the Gold Sponsors Hewlett-Packard and Wave Technologies. More information can be obtained at http://www.lpi.org and other countries. "Linux Professional Institute" and the LPI logo are trademarks of Linux Professional Institute, Inc. |
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