Linux+ Exam

tk123

Has anybody done the Linux+ exam and whats it like? I would like to take the exam for revenge purposes to annoy somebody who thinks they are going to do a beginners unix/linux course and make their fortune :rolleyes: Anyhoos I did linux in college - we did all the basic commands and some shell programming. Also I did the network+ and work in IT so I think I could handle the hardware side of things. Do you guys think I would have enough experience to pass if I just read an exam cram book?? I'm very determined on account of the revenge factor!!

nadir

dunno the LPI is the one I was thinking about doing before, but i was advised against it , people said it really just wasnt worth it.

Im assuming they are all somewhat similar, I had a look at some of the questions they didn't seem too hard.

logistic

nadir wrote:

dunno the LPI is the one I was thinking about doing before, but i was advised against it , people said it really just wasnt worth it.

Why were you advised against it? Is it that its not well recognised?

tk123

Which is the best one to do then lads?!

Stky10

The redhat one I'd imagine. Not that its any better/worse than any
of the others, but a la MCSE's to some HR/Recruitment/Management
types its the be all and end all.

Heard before though that the lab/practical part of it is pretty
intense. No cram book will prepare you for it. You either know
it backwards and without thinking or you dont, and if you dont
you wont pass. How true that is I dont know as I've never done
it.

flywheel

might be better to hold for the Linux+ until the new 2004 Objectives kick in if you wanted to take that exam: CompTIA Announces Major Revision of the Linux+ Certification

for LPI certification - this is a pretty balanced / factual article about where they are coming from: Creating a Linux Certification and Training Program - they currently have two levels - Level 1 aimed at junior or low-level system admin / support, Level 2 for senior level and they intend to have a Level 3 for 'guru' (as they put it)

you can check out some LPI Level 1 tutorials to see what that generally covers on the IBM developerWorks

BrianG

tk123

Thanx guys!! I want to be a guru!!!

ntlbell

You have as much chance of becoming a guru doing the Linux + as you have of buying a football in lifestyle sports and turning into wayne rooney.

If you want to learn linux, learn it. get some cheap hardware and install it, no spare hardware? dual boot, use VMware get a shell. http://www.blacknight.ie/ provide cheap shells on irish boxes running slackware I think.

Find out why you want to use it, what do you want to get done, and work hard at it and read untill you go blind.

Linux+ is literally for an employer to see you have a basic understanding of Linux, nothing else.

If you did want to take one of these courses buying the material for the RHCE I think it's about 50e or so, get a copy of whitebox linux, which is basically Red Hat Enterprise and work through it.

The practical side of these exams are _nothing_ like mcse exams you HAVE to understand linux, you have to be able to work under preasure and know RH backwards, it is tough if you're new to linux, so don't just read the book and book the exam, you'll fail.

If you're learning linux to make money, you're probably going the wrong way about it.

Good luck

Fenster

I don't know about the rest of the country, but the most up-to-date version of Linux sold here is Suse 9.1, that's if you don't count Fedora 2 bundled with some user books...

...and if you don't count Red Hat 7.2 on sale in Compustore for 300 squids (its only, what, three years old?).

digitalninja

I'm doing the linux+ at the moment and while it's okay its very redhat biased, although it is really only so an employer knows you've an understanding of linux it seems pretty straightforward so far...

Coming from a debian backround I'm finding it quite easy and although I've only started the course I'm pretty sure anyone who has used linux on a regular basis for more than a year would probably walk it.