[NBLUG/talk] Linux certifications

[Crawford Rainwater]

Vue web site to sign up for the exams.  LPI's 
web site for the objectives, etc. for clarification.

Good luck too on them!

--- Crawford

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> From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org]On Behalf Of
> Christopher Wagner
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 4:47 PM
> To: 'talk at nblug.org'
> Subject: RE: [NBLUG/talk] Linux certifications
> 
> 
> Excellent, that answers my questions wonderfully.  I think I will pursue
> LPIC certification.  I will look at the VUE website later and probably
> pickup a copy of O'Reilly's LPIC in a nutshell.
> 
> Thank you for your time, it's much appreciated.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org]On Behalf Of
> Crawford Rainwater
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 5:35 PM
> To: talk at nblug.org
> Subject: RE: [NBLUG/talk] Linux certifications
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org]On Behalf Of
> > Christopher Wagner
> > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 3:42 PM
> > To: 'talk at nblug.org'
> > Subject: RE: [NBLUG/talk] Linux certifications (was RE: LinuxWorld San
> > Francisco 2003 Registration is Open!)
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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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