[NBLUG/talk] Linux certifications

[Crawford Rainwater]

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> Christopher Wagner
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> Thank you Mr. Rainwater.  I appreciate the information.  Would you say the
> information that you don't use (you mentioned that you don't use
> the server
> information) was still very educational and interesting?  Did you find the
> exams to be poorly worded?  With the M$ exams I've been studying for, many
> of the questions seem worded so that a question that would normally be
> common-sense, suddenly requires knowing the exact words of their text-book
> to answer correctly.  Are many of the questions obscure (the most notable
> complaint I heard from participants last year)?
>

Yes, for instance "ntp" is one area I was rusty on, yet there was
two questions on it.  The questions are not poorly written and since
the last LWE, (if I recall the time line correctly), there has been
a change of exams on the LPIC-1 from Beta to the present version
which could explain some of the improvements along those lines.
As I am not familiar with the M$ exams, no comment there either way
for a comparison.

> If I decide to take this certification outside of LWE, how much does it
> typically cost, and how much for materials, etc?
>

LPI exams through Vue are $100 each at this point in time.
Study materials I would recommend aside from actual "in
front of the computer using Linux" time would be O'Reilly's
"LPIC-1 In A Nutshell" for starters (this was written pre-
current exam version) and using the LPI web site objectives
of the exams to add on from there with TLDP, man pages, etc.

CompTIA Linux+ exams are $199 each, and it does include
non-Linux oriented HW questions that go along the A+ side
of things.

HTH.

--- Crawford

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