[wplug] Re: wplug Digest, Vol 34, Issue 25

Greg Simkins gregsim at telerama.com
Sun Dec 31 17:00:39 EST 2006


I have never taken a Linux certification test, but have certified in the four core Microsoft exams and the study method I have found reliable is to purchase the practice exam from Test King (http://www.testking.com/) and take the practice exam a couple dozen times until I achieve a 90% score.  I understand that the passing grade for Microsoft was about 80%.  I am not sure about Linux.  Test King pays people after having taken the exams for the questions they remember and many of the questions on the study exam appear exactly on the actual exams.  

A number of folks seem interested in Linux certification now.  Chris Teodorski pointed out the ubuntu cert at http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/certification/pro.  It requires 3 exams, the first two of which are general Linux LPI exams.  I think Chris and I both plan to pursue that certification.   I have already purchased the Test King test bank for LPI 101 ($60).  My initial scores are much lower than my experience with the Microsoft exams.  I generally started at about 50% the first time I took a Microsoft test exam.  I scored 0% on the first crack at the Linux questions.  I quickly moved up to 30% on my latest attempt. The Linux exam asks very detailed, arcane details, but I guess that is what it takes to be a command line commando. 

I propose that (if we have sufficient interest) that we form a study group and work together.  I did a quick search of redhat.com and it seems their certification path is not built on LPI, but I imagine there is still quite a bit of common Body of Knowledge material.  

My church in Carrick section of Pittsburgh (on Brownsville Road in South Hills) has a small computer lab where we could set up some lab situations.  

I am not sure how to organize a study group - I suppose the board would need to approve it and perhaps set up a mail list.  Anybody interested, please let me know.  

(Shameless Plug:  I am scheduled to teach CIT220 Linux at CCAC South Campus Spring Semester - so far I don't have enough students to run the class, but I expect it will help with exam prep). 

Greg Simkins




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jeman062383 at aol.com 
  To: wplug at wplug.org 
  Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 2:40 PM
  Subject: [wplug] Re: wplug Digest, Vol 34, Issue 25


  Are there any RHCEs here? If there is what path would you reccomend as far as preparing for it? (besides taking expensive classes) Right now I am running ununtu edgy eft and I have CentOS 4.4 running in vmware, and I hav e some books such as Micheal Jang's RHCE study guide, and the Red Hat manuals. What do you guys think of this method? For those of you who have it what method did you use?  The objectives on RedHat's site are pretty vague, so what specifically would you reccomend I study? You don't have to give me an enitre lowdown of the test, that would unethical, illegal, and defeat the purpose of the test. My experience is kind of limited BTW, I run a windows only enviroment at work(however I might stick linux on my desktop soon), and i have experience with different things in Linux here at home such as installing and compiling packages, configuring apache, FTP, SAMBA, and DNS, plus I took a linux class while I was still in tech school. I would love a ca! reer where I work with linux, so what would you guys reccomend?


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