Re: LPI Certification...Any Idea?
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:01:32PM +0800, Alex Chooi wrote: Hi! How's life out there? I'm new in Linux. Any commendation with this certification? I heard it is good Cos it cover most of the unix or linux favor. Please get advice? any recommend book for this ? I used the O'Reilly book, LPI Certification in a Nutshell by Jeff Dean (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lpicertnut/) as a study guide for the 101 and 102 exams. I did comfortably pass both on the first try, but they were surprisingly difficult. I read somewhere that the failure rate was close to 60%, and I believe it. If you're just getting started with linux, you may want to give yourself some time before attempting this certification. There are quite a few people on this mailing list who have the RHCE certification, but I prefer LPI because of its lower cost and vendor neutrality. However, from what I understand the RHCE has nearly as high a failure rate as the LPI exams, so I'm sure it is difficult enough to be meaningful. Has anyone here written both the LPI and RHCE exams? If you just want a linux certification and don't care which one it is, then you may want to investigate CompTIA's Linux+. People rarely fail CompTIA exams, but for that reason they're not taken as seriously as some others. The RUTE users tutorial and exposition (rute.sf.net) also has everything you need to pass any of the above linux certifications. It's also freely downloadable, but I went with the O'Reilly book because it exactly follows the LPI exam and I could read it without having my computer on. I'm studying for the LPI Level 2 exams now, but as far as I know there are no published study guides for them. However, you can download the 201 and 202 exam objectives from lpi.org. The level 1 exams were difficult enough that I'm making sure I'm well prepared before tackling the level 2 exams. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: LPI Certification...Any Idea?
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Kevin MacNeil wrote: If you just want a linux certification and don't care which one it is, then you may want to investigate CompTIA's Linux+. People rarely fail CompTIA exams, but for that reason they're not taken as seriously as some others. but isn't comptia the same group fronting the anti-open source initiative for software choice, which is basically a microsoft mouthpiece? feel free to hop over to linuxtoday.com, and do a search on comptia, and you'll see what i mean. it strikes me as a bit odd that comptia would have linux cert exams, when they're simultaneously promoting the (hideously misnamed) initiative for software choice. unless i've confused my secretly-backed microsoft mouthpiece organizations. it's possible -- there are so many of them. :-) rday -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: LPI Certification...Any Idea?
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Alex Chooi wrote: Hi! How's life out there? I'm new in Linux. Any commendation with this certification? I heard it is good Cos it cover most of the unix or linux favor. Please get advice? any recommend book for this ? Any certificate is useless by itself. What matters is knowledge, experience and a keen eye for details -- particularly when it cames to troubleshooting. However having said that, sadly it happens that some people pay more attention to the paper rather to the person, e.g. employers (hopefully only few of them). LPI is supposed to be vendor independent, RHCE is more widely known. I doubt very much that either of you will make you wiser. If you are new to Linux then RHCE may prove difficult even if you are 'old' to Unix. Don't know much about LPI. So it boils down to: what do you need it for ? (you have to answer the question only to yourself). Disclaimer: I have the RHCE Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
LPI Certification...Any Idea?
Hi! How's life out there? I'm new in Linux. Any commendation with this certification? I heard it is good Cos it cover most of the unix or linux favor. Please get advice? any recommend book for this ? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
