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'We're our own focus group' – Ning Wang on security certification, training, and keeping Kali Linux on top  The Daily Swig

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New CHFD credential aimed to help fuel the supply of technical talent to support the continued demand for smart contract development. 

SAN FRANCISCO, March 3, 2020 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced enrollment is now open for the new Certified Hyperledger Fabric Developer certification exam.  This is the latest in a series of training content and certification exams aimed at onboarding the next generation of technical talent for professional blockchain technologies. 

“Hyperledger Fabric has become a core technology for organizations looking to implement blockchain-based distributed ledgers and smart contract systems – leading to a shortage of professionals who are qualified to create and implement such systems,” said Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, Hyperledger. “We have had over 200,000 students take our free introductory Hyperledger course and look forward to providing them with this new pathway to prove their technical chops.”

 

As with all Linux Foundation certification exams, the exam will be available remotely from virtually any location with a stable internet connection and webcam. Those who fail to pass the exam on their first attempt will be able to retake the exam one additional time at no cost. The exam is designed to be 2 hours long although for an introductory period candidates will be allowed 3 hours to complete it.

Candidates will have a variety of real-world tasks to perform on a live system as this is not a multiple-choice exam. A Certified Hyperledger Fabric Developer (CHFD) should demonstrate the knowledge to develop and maintain client applications and smart contracts using the latest Fabric programming model. Such a developer must also be able to package and deploy Fabric applications and smart contracts, perform end-to-end Fabric application life-cycle and smart contract management and program in Java or Node.js (or Go for smart contracts).

Exam topics will include:

• Identity Management – 7%
• Network Configuration – 8%
• Smart Contract Development – 40%
• Smart Contract Invocation – 25%
• Maintenance and Testing – 20%

The full list of Domains and Competencies for CHFD can be found here. Learn more about the CHFA and CHSA certification exams and the community members that contributed on the Hyperledger blog.

About The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training, and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

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Linux Mint to get local network sharing tool and new theme colours  Neowin

Linux Mint to get local network sharing tool and new theme colours  Neowin

Ampere Computing, the ARM server start-up founded by former Intel president Renee James and staffed by many former Intel folks, is today announcing Altra as their next-generation server processor. Ampere started off with the assets of AppliedMicro's X-Gene ARMv8 IP and that turned into the Ampere's eMAG as a decent entrant into the field two years ago. But now with more resources and engineering talent under their belt, they are now preparing to ship the Ampere Altra as up to 80 cores per socket and based on Arm's latest Neoverse N1.

Firefox 75 due to be released next month should finally have its native Wayland support in good order...

Firefox 75 On Wayland Now To Have Full WebGL, Working VA-API Acceleration  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market is Thriving Worldwide | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE  Monroe Scoop

Released one month ago was systemd 245 RC1 while now a second release candidate is available. Systemd 245 stable should be shipping in the near future as well in order to make some of the spring Linux distribution releases like Fedora 32...

GNOME co-founder Miguel de Icaza, who also started the Mono project and now working at Microsoft following their 2016 acquisition of Xamarin, has penned his first blog post in nearly one year -- and it's about WebAssembly...

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SystemRescueCd 6.1 Adds WireGuard Support, Linux Kernel 5.4 LTS  LXer

SystemRescueCd 6.1 Adds WireGuard Support, Linux Kernel 5.4 LTS  LXer

DH2i DxEnterprise for SDP-Enhanced Microsoft SQL Server AGs on Linux  AiThority

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‘We’re our own focus group’ – Ning Wang on security certification, training, and keeping Kali Linux on top  The Daily Swig

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