Third Annual Southern California Linux Expo

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Third Annual Southern California Linux Expo

• Advanced Technical Training for the Future

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Certification Benefits
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Create Industry Recognition

• Microsoft, Novell, Lotus and other vendors are
  spending millions of dollars.
• Linux Certification will let the IT industry know
  that Linux has emerged as a viable solution.

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Organizational Path for Students

• What Books? What Classes?
• The Certification Program takes away the pain of
  where do I begin?

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Organizational Mechanism for Training Centers

• Training centers can fashion a program that
  entices students to sign up for a block of 6
  classes at a time.
• A common training/certification program also
  allows training centers to compete with each
  other.

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Counter the "no-support" argument

• New programs allow corporations to purchase
  support contracts are certainly one great step in
  this direction. But the existence of "certified"
  individuals is another.
• A pool of Linux-certified professionals would
  counter this argument

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Turn students into advocates

• A certification candidate has invested a serious
  amount of time, energy and money into the
  product, they want to use that actual product
• We need them to know Linux!

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Provide Other means of employment for
Linux-skilled Individuals

• A certification program creates many
  opportunities for employment for people
  knowledgeable about Linux.
• Each person who can be employed writing or
  teaching about Linux becomes yet another
  advocate, potentially full-time, for Linux.

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Recruit new Linux users

• "Want to earn 70,000 per year? Come to xxx
  training and join our MCSE program."?
• The certification program for Linux expands the
  user base of Linux users.

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Assist in the hiring process

• There are certainly large enough quantities of
  study materials out there that someone could try
  to get by purely on studying. But certifications
  can assist in the hiring. process
• A certification program can assist in helping
  managers know that a person has at least a
  certain level of Linux product knowledge and
  capabilities.

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Certifications Available
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• At ABCO we have courses to offer for Linux career
  certification as follows
• Linux Fundamentals
• CompTia Linux
• Linux Desktop Professional
• Linux System Administration
• Linux ServerRed Hat and Suse
• Red Hat Linux Desktop Technician
• Red Hat Linux Certified Technician
• Red Hat Linux Certified Engineer
• Linux Advanced Server Administration
• Linux Apache MySql and PHP (LAMP)

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Linux Fundamentals

• Students will install Linux, configure the X
  Window System, and learn to navigate the Linux
  command-line shell. Students will also learn
  fundamental concepts common to Linux the kernel,
  Linux file system, boot process and run levels,
  shell scripting, and editing text files.

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CompTia Linux

• This course is aimed at Linux Professionals with
  six months of experience with the Linux operating
  system. It covers basic installation, operating,
  and troubleshooting services for the Linux
  operating system and hardware on workstations and
  servers. Basic system administration tasks are
  also covered.

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Linux Desktop Essentials Workstation

• Linux Desktop Essentials is for persons new to
  Linux and who want to achieve maximum
  productivity at home or work using Linux and
  Desktop-based office application suites for
  common office productivity tasks.
• The course covers the methods of using Linux
  desktop GUI tools (KDE GNOME) and office
  productivity applications for traditional desktop
  tasks such as word processing, spreadsheet
  creation, graphic design, file management, and
  internet access, and demonstrates the ability to
  comfortably share work across platforms.
• The course is offered on the latest version of
  Red Hat Linux.

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Linux Professional System Administration

• Linux Professional System Administration is a
  hands-on training course. It will introduce
  students to the basics of administering a server
  running the Linux operating system. The objective
  of this course is to provide students with the
  instruction necessary to prepare them for the
  Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Level 1
  certification or the Level 1 Sair Linux and GNU
  certification.

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Linux Server Red Hat and Suse

• Linux has gained considerable momentum as the
  operating system of choice for deploying network
  services such as web, ftp, email, and file
  sharing. This Course provides training in
  essential elements of securing these network
  services. Students will also learn advanced user
  and beginning system administration techniques.

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Red Hat Linux Desktop Technician Certification

• Linux Desktop Certification is a hands-on
  instruction course. It will introduce students to
  the basics of configuring Linux servers for
  networking services. We organized each lesson
  into explanatory topics and step-by-step
  activities. Topics provide the theory you need to
  master the Linux operating system activities
  allow you to apply this theory to practical
  hands-on examples.

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Red Hat Linux Certified Technician (RHCT)

• This course provides intensive hands-on training
  on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This course is
  intended for users who understand the basics of
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux and want further
  technical training to begin the process of
  becoming advanced Linux System Administrators.

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Red Hat Linux Certified Engineer (RHCE)

• Red Hat Rapid Track Certification Course is a
  hands-on intensive course which delivers the
  ability to obtain the Red Hat Certification
  Engineering credential. This course is offered
  on the current version of Red Hat Linux.

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Linux Advanced Administration

• This course is for advanced server administrators
  to apply network concepts to manage a Linux based
  network with Red Hat as its main platform.

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Linux Apache MySql and PHP (LAMP)

• Linux has gained considerable momentum as the
  operating system of choice for deploying Database
  Servers for Intranets and Internet Portals. This
  course offers sufficient knowledge to build and
  host a database server on Linux with Apache
  web-server using MySQL as RDBMS and PHP script
  for database connectivity. This course is offered
  on compatible versions of Red Hat Linux.

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• ABCO Technology is patronized by professionals
  seeking Computer education and Certification from
  all parts of the globe.
• ABCO Technology provides intensive hands-on job
  simulated training and certification preparation
  for individuals and corporations. Our list of
  certifications is as follows
• CompTia A Certification
• Microsoft MCSE, MCSA, MCDBA, MCAD and MCSD
• Cisco CCNA and CCNP
• Oracle Database Administrator (DBA)
• Linux Basic and Advanced Certifications
• CompTia Security
• E-commerce and Web Development (CIW)
• Programming in C, Visual Basic and Visual
  studio. Net
• Java Certifications

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