Apple Certified Mac OS X Lion Training

Apple have announced there new training programme for Mac OS X Lion. At present it includes only the following three qualifications;

Apple Certified Associate: Mac Integration 10.7

Apple Certified Support Professional 10.7 (ACSP)

Apple Certified Technical Coordinator 10.7 (ACTC)

The ACSA (Apple Certified System Administrator) qualification has disappeared completely and there is every likely hood that the courses that made it up have gone for for ever, from now on only Support Essentials and Server Essentials courses will be in certification programme.

As time has gone on Apple have moved to focusing training only in their technologies and their interface. So as the interface simplifies there's less to teach. It doesn't mean that the functionality isn't there, if you have already have an understanding of the underlying Operating System you can modify the UNIX configuration files or make changes on the command line. Apple just doesn't see it as the job of their training courses to teach stuff that is not theirs and you can find out else where. The problem is that this now extends to some of the most fundamental network protocol; DHCP, DNS etc.

There is a window where the Snow Leopard ACSA courses will still be available and this gives an opportunity for those with requirements for a higher level skill set . The Snow Leopard ACSA courses cover the the detail of  the fundamental network technologies as well as detail of Apple's own technologies that are also apparently missing from the GUI in Lion. The interface will still be Snow Leopard but the Command Line is the same and those skills will stand you in good stead for a future with Lion or what ever comes after.