Apple Certified Mac OS X v10.7 Lion Training

Apple Certified Mac OS X Lion Training

After my post on FCPX I have been getting lots of questions about Apple's certified training for Lion. As it turns out my response is pretty similar.

A couple of weeks ago Steve Jobs formally announced the release of Mac OS X v10.7 code named Lion. In the keynote speech at WWDC he described and demonstrated a number of new features. We all eagerly await it's release at the end of July. But what does this mean for Apple Certified Training? The answer at the moment is we just don't know. Apple have not said anything, all we have to go is what happened with the last major upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard, and there are no guarantees that things will be the same this time round.

For the upgrade to Snow Leopard;

The new version of Support Essentials materials came out with the release of the OS.

Server Essentials materials took a little longer,.

It was at least six months before the ACSA training courses were available.

This time round if the Apple Certified Trainers need to attend Lion upgrade training courses it may take longer before we are actually able to roll out the courses.

For those who were certified in the old version of the OS Apple offered an online recertification exam that could be sat at home with book in front of you, for the first two months after the release of the OS. There was no requirement to resit the course.

But to find out what the training programme for Mac OS X Lion will be we need to wait for the announcement from Apple.

So what should you do?

You have to step onto the moving walk way at some point. If you are currently supporting Snow Leopard then you need to get trained in it until the new certifications come out and you are ready to upgrade. Upgrading to an new version of any operating system before it has had time to mature and settle down, can bring a world of problems. Snow Leopard is stable and it's idiosyncrasies are well know and understood, it will be around for a while.

Attend the training and get certified in Snow Leopard,