2/9/2001 -- Sair Linux and GNU Certification (Sair-GNU), a vendor-neutral Linux certification   provider, is taking a product-oriented approach for the second level of its   four-tiered Linux certification program.

Last week, Sair-GNU announced the details of its Level II curriculum, which   will become available gradually throughout the year. Most notably, the certification   will offer candidates seven elective exams to choose from for testing specific   product/application-related skills. The applications are:

 
• Advanced Maryland Automated Disk Archiver
 
• Apache
 
• MySQL
 
• PHP/XML
 
• Perl
 
• Samba
 
• Sendmail

Level II candidates must pass three elective exams from the list above, plus   one core technology exam, in order to become Linux Certified Experts (LCEs).

"Level II...is more product driven [than Level I]..." said Sair President   Toby Maginnis in a printed statement. "This allows the LCE candidate the   freedom to select a combination of applications that best match the job description."

No specific dates were given for when Level II exams would be available; however,   a spokesperson for Sair-GNU said that tests would go live as soon as possible   after the related classes are released.

For more information on this announcement, click here.   -B.N.