The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), a Linux certification organization, is making changes to its LPIC-2 and LPIC-3 certification programs. The new objectives for these certifications are presently under development. New exams will be available in English on October 1, 2013 with local translations and pricing to be announced.
The Linux Professional Institute is globally supported by the IT industry, enterprise customers, community professionals, government entities and the educational community. LPI's major financial sponsors are platinum sponsors IBM, Linux Journal, Linux Magazine, Novell, SGI, and TurboLinux as well as gold sponsors, HP and IDG.
According to the LPI, it is concentrating on essential and advanced system administration skills in LPIC-2, while further focusing the LPIC-3 program on specific specialties such as mixed environments, security, and high availability/virtualization. The upcoming changes also reflect LPI's work with the larger open source community in to ascertain the skill sets necessary for various specialized job roles for Linux professionals.
A revised program roadmap and a description of proposed changes to the LPIC-2 and LPIC-3 certification program can be found here.