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Luca Ferrari | 27 Feb 2013 08:51
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questions about the questions

(hope this questions are legal)

One thing that is not clear to me is how the BSDA questions are
expressed. Do they provide you some hints about a system and ask you
the commands to achieve a goal on such system, or are more general and
requires you to express the commands to achieve the goal in all the
systems?
For instance, are expressed like: "uname -a reports bla bla, how do
you configure a raid 1 on disk a and b?" or like: "how do you mirror
disks a and b in every bsd you know?".
Or neither of the above?

Second, how important are the command flags? I mean, consider fdisk
for instance: it does pretty much the same on all the systems but has
slightly different flags to do the exactly same thing, so is the
candidate required to know every (or at least one) flag or to just
know which command (in this case fdisk) to use?

Thanks,
Luca
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Robert Perry | 12 Feb 2013 00:54
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System Requirements for the BSD Certification Package

Hello everyone,

I purchased the Winter/Spring 2012 DVD (FreeBSD 8.2, etc) but haven't 
installed/begun the sessions yet.  My intention is to install the DVD on 
a second PC (refurbished system which I haven't purchased yet) with the 
following general specs:

     Hard Disk: 160GB
     CPU: Intel Core 2, 2.80 GHz
     Optical: CD-RW/DVD-RW
     Network card: Gigabit Ethernet
     Memory: 4096MB
      OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition (considering writing 
over entire system)

I wasn't able to find the system requirements for the certification DVD 
and hope the system mentioned above will be sufficient for training 
purposes.  Please advise.

Thank you,
Bob Perry

Note: An oak tree is but a little nut that chose to hold its ground. -- 
Occupy
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Luca Ferrari | 9 Feb 2013 11:55
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study environment

Hi all,
I'm thinking about trying the certification, and therefore I'm going
to set up a set of virtual machines each running the latest BSDs. I
believe that should suffice to study and practice with all the
commands and concepts, after all for what I understand this is
somthing similar to the study dvd. Or do I need to prepare myself
using the study dvd because some material is not available?

Luca
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Dru Lavigne | 10 Dec 2012 20:31
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Latest Version of BSDA Study DVD Available

Hi everyone,

The Winter/Spring 2013 Edition of the BSDA Study DVD is now available for a $40 USD donation at
http://www.bsdcertification.org/store. Even if you are not planning on taking the BSDA exam, the DVD
provides a handy reference and a way to support BSD certification. It contains:

- FreeBSD 9.0 and its ports collection

- NetBSD 6.0 and the latest version of pkgsrc

- OpenBSD 5.2 and its ports collection

- DragonFly BSD 3.2.1

- the light-weight qemu and aqemu virtual environments so you can install and network all 4 BSDs on one system

- the Handbooks and Guides for each of the BSDs

- all of the BSD Certification publications

Instructions for using the DVD's virtual environment can be found at the BSDA Study Wiki
(http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/Table_of_Contents.html) and in the insert included with the DVD.

DVD sales are used to pay for the ongoing psychometric analysis of the BSDA and the costs associated with
developing the upcoming BSDP certification exam. If you would like to help move the BSDP forward, or would
like to have a copy of this handy BSD reference, please consider purchasing a DVD.

Cheers,

Dru
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Dru Lavigne | 15 Nov 2012 22:51
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BSDA Recertification Policy Published

Hi everyone,

Today we published the BSDA recertification policy. It took some time to establish the policy as it needed
to adhere to psychometric principles. We also wanted to give certificants the choice between taking the
exam again or proving that they still meet the requirements of the BSDA by continuing to use their BSD
system administration skills. 

The news item is here:

http://www.bsdcertification.org/news/bsda-recertification-requirements-published

The policy itself is here:

http://www.bsdcertification.org/certification/recertification-policy

We updated the BSDA Certification Requirements document to add the policy. The objectives themselves did
not change but the BSD versions and the Command Reference were updated. The English version of the PDF is here:

http://www.bsdcertification.org/certification/CertReqBSDA2012.pdf

If you would like to translate the objectives, email me for a copy of the source file.

If you have any questions about the policy, feel free to ask. Please help us spread the word by sharing the
news item on applicable mailing lists, blogs, forums, etc.

Cheers,

Dru
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Jeremy C. Reed | 2 Aug 2012 18:26

looking for an experienced trainer with great BSD admin experience

Do you know of any experienced classroom instructor with lots of *BSD 
admin experience?  Someone who would be qualified in 95% of BSDA plus 
professional-quality experience with advanced or further topics such as 
packet filter configurations and troubleshooting, web server with 
dynamic content setup, and email services. This person should know 
one of NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD very well and the basics of the 
others.
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Dru Lavigne | 27 Nov 2011 19:21
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Latest Version of BSDA Study DVD Available

Hi everyone,

The Winter/Spring 2012 Edition of the BSDA Study DVD is now available for a $40 USD donation at
http://www.bsdcertification.org/store. Even if you're not planning on taking the BSDA exam, the DVD
provides a handy reference and a way to support BSD certification. It contains:

- FreeBSD 8.2 and its ports collection
- NetBSD 5.1 and the latest version of pkgsrc
- OpenBSD 5.0 and its ports collection
- DragonFly BSD 2.10.1
- the qemu and aqemu virtual environments so you can install and network all 4 BSDs on one system
- all of the Handbooks, Guides, and FAQs for each of the BSDs
- all of the BSD Certification publications

Instructions for using the DVD's virtual environment can be found at the BSDA Study Wiki
(http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/Table_of_Contents.html) and in the insert included with the DVD.

DVD sales are used to pay for the ongoing psychometric analysis of the BSDA and the costs associated with
developing the upcoming BSDP certification exam. If you would like to help move the BSDP forward, or would
like to have a copy of this handy BSD reference, please consider purchasing a DVD.

Cheers,

Dru
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Jeremy C. Reed | 24 Nov 2011 07:56

new PDF for The BSD Associate Study Guide

Another PDF has been generated of The BSD Associate Study Guide based on 
the BSD-licensed content from http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/

http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/PDF/

The markdown is converted to html to latex to pdf.

It still has formatting issues and lots of minor cleanup and 
improvements are needed.

See http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/need-responsible.html for a list of a 
few sections still needing content and a list of sections that have 
TODOs (questions or things to clarify or write).  If you want to 
participate, please let me know.

If you prefer to not edit a wiki page, you can edit the markdown files 
directly. http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/source/ and send me your diffs.  
Or you can simply send emails with your suggestions to me.

While the book is not complete, I have received nice feedback over the 
past few years how the book has been helpful for their preparation for 
the BSDA examination.

  Jeremy C. Reed

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  tr            '#-~'            '\-.-{'
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Brett Mahar | 21 Sep 2011 04:40
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Account creation password

Hi,
I am trying to create an account so I can deit/add some details to the bsdcert wiki. Could someone send me the
"account creation password" so I can finish registering?
Thanks,
Brett.
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Dru Lavigne | 2 Jun 2011 14:28
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article on certification in June issue of BSD Mag

Hello all,

Jim Brown is writing a series of articles on open source certifications, with a focus on lessons learned by the BSD certification group. The first article in this series has been published in the June issue of BSD mag (http://bsdmag.org/magazine/1741-nanobsd-and-alix) which is available as a free download. The publisher has also created a separate PDF of just this article which is available for download from http://www.slideshare.net/dlavigne/brown-bsdmag-june11.

Cheers,

Dru
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Jim B. | 22 May 2011 19:16

Email Address Change

Hi All,

FYI- My email address is now

jpb@...

Thanks,
Jim Brown
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