BSD Certification Group Newsletter
November 2006
Contents
* 1 New Sponsors
* 2 New Webmaster
* 3 New BSDCG Member
* 4 Exam Weightings
* 5 Update on Test Delivery
* 6 Website Statistics
* 7 Mailing Lists
* 8 About this Newsletter
1 New Sponsors
We're pleased to announce two new bronze sponsors:
The FreeBSD
Foundation and Marketbridge Technologies.
The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization that is
committed to supporting and building the FreeBSD Project
and community
worldwide. The Foundation gratefully accepts
donations from
individuals and businesses to help fund various
activities to support
the project like managing intellectual property issues
and funding
development projects, to supporting technical
conferences and
developer collaboration. The Foundation board is
comprised of
volunteers that are actively involved in FreeBSD and
also respected
researchers in their areas of expertise.
Marketbridge Technologies is an advanced technology firm
specializing
in network, security consulting and training.
Marketbridge provides
strong expertise in open source and
industry/vendor specific
technologies. Marketbridge performs onsite and local
instruction,
including consulting services, throughout North America.
Keep an eye on the Sponsors page of the website as
several other
sponsors will be added over the next few weeks. If
your company is
interested in sponsorship, please use the contact form on
the website
to request details.
2 New Webmaster
Randi Harper has accepted the position as the BSDCG
web developer.
Many thanks to those who applied for this volunteer
position and to
the retiring webmaster, genoverly, for all of his great
work in the
past.
3 New BSDCG Member
Axel Gruner, a member of the BSDCG German translation
team since its
formation, has recently joined the BSDCG as a voting
member. His
updated bio is in the BSDCG section of the Meet Us
page of the
website.
4 Exam Weightings
The exam weightings for the seven BSDA Study
Domains have been
determined from our psychometrician's analysis and will
be added to
the Certification page of the website. They are:
13%
Installing & Upgrading the OS and Software
11%
Securing the Operating System
15%
Files, Filesystems and Disks
16%
Users and Accounts Management
12%
Basic System Administration
15%
Network Administration
17%
Basic Unix Skills
Detailed exam objectives for the Study Domains can be
found in the
BSDA Certification Requirements PDF which is available
for download
from the Certification page of the website. The initial
BSDA exam will
contain 100 questions, meaning you can expect 13
questions assessing
the objectives listed under the Installing domain,
11 questions
assessing the objectives listed under the Securing domain,
and so on.
Details regarding the type of questions, including
sample questions,
will be published once the test delivery solution is
finalized. The
required passing score will be published once the initial
psychometric
analysis of the exam questions is complete.
5 Update on Test Delivery
Due to the high costs associated with commercial online
test delivery
solutions, the BSDCG has assembled a development team
to create a
custom solution. Sponsorship will definitely speed up
development
time; if your company is interested in providing either
developers or
financial assistance, please contact the Chair using the
contact page
of the website.
We should have more details regarding test
delivery, test
availability, and test cost by the end of the year.
6 Website Statistics
Online webstats are available at
http://webstat
s.bsdcertification.org/.
7 Mailing Lists
If you are not on the announcements list, please sign up
at
http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert-anno
unce/. It is a
closed list for announcements from the BSD Certification
Group.
The general discussion list is at
ht
tp://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert/.
The announcements list had 191 subscribers and the
general discussion
list had 748 members this month.
8 About this Newsletter
The BSD Certification Group newsletter is published every
month, near
the middle of the month.
Thank you to Dru Lavigne for contributing to this
newsletter. The
editor is Jeremy C. Reed.
If you have any news items related to the BSD
Certification, please
let us know by submitting via the contact form on the
website or by
sending an email to newsletter BSDCertificationGroup.org.
Or if you
would like to volunteer for the translation team please
send a note
with the subject ``translation'' on the website's contact
form.
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