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I attended PTI (Pittsburgh Tehncial Institute) and got an associates in IT. Right now I work in all windows enviroment, but am really interested in eventually working with Linux, which is why I want a cert. Ya PTI was an ok school, it's not perfect but I did learn alot. The second class where we did things like work with NFS and apache is what really got me hooked, however we didn't get to learn everything, we were supposed to get sendmail, and DNS training in Fedora Core, but the other students had trouble picking things up mainly due to poor aptitude and FUD.<br>
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As far as books I have I have quite a few, including the electronic (chm) copy of the RHCE study guide by Micheal Jang, but plan on buying the hard copy off amazon possibly later tonight. The RHCE study guide is a bit dated however because it was written for RHEL 3 and Red Hat is supposed to release RHEL 5 in march. They are on 4 as of right now. I believe Fedora Core 6 is based on RHEL 5 since it is bleeding edge software for Red Hat. FC 6 could be something we use in the lab. I'll try to find more information for you.<br>
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I think this cert study group is a great idea as it will not only benefit us as individuals and our careers, but the knowledge and skills we will obtain by getting these certs can be invaluable group. <br>
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So let me know either on the mailing list here, my private email (jeman062383@aol.com), or you can just let me or anyone else who is intetested know at the next LUG meeting. Thanks.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Justin Ehrlichman<br>
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<pre><tt><tt>Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 11:32:03 -0500<br>
From: "Greg Simkins" <<a href="mailto:gregsim%40telerama.com">gregsim@telerama.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [wplug] Re: certification<br>
To: "General user list" <<a href="mailto:wplug%40wplug.org">wplug@wplug.org</a>><br>
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Hi jeman062383, <br>
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The next WPLUG meeting is a week from Saturday on Jan 13. I will be late as I <br>
have a missions network meeting at Northway in the morning. <br>
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I have 3 others so far expressed interest in the study group, but we have no <br>
proposed dates or modus operandi. If we need a lab for experimentation my <br>
church in Carrick has a small PC lab. A nice place to meet is at Paneras in <br>
Oakland near McGee Hospital. We can reserve a room there. They are happy if we <br>
buy some coffee and maybe a bagel and they provide free wireless Internet acces. <br>
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Did you take CIT-220 at CCAC? or what tech school did you attend? How was it? <br>
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<br>
I just ordered a copy of General Linux I Exam Prep (Exam: 101) by LeBlanc, <br>
Dee-Ann from Amazon. It was the only Linux exam review book that came up on <br>
their search and there were many used copies for $0.01 plus shipping. The <br>
satisfaction ratings were high, so even though I don't understand why somebody <br>
would bother to sell a book for a penny, I bit. After taking the practice exam <br>
a few times, I decided that I need more explanation than a simple correct <br>
answer. <br>
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I would be very pleased to have you join our study group. I look forward to <br>
hearing your ideas. <br>
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Greg</tt></tt></pre><br>
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