Passed CompTIA Linux + 103/104! Tips to pass!
VincentjAlvarez
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I was a bit anxious about this exam so I avoided it for awhile, but finally got the courage. I'm definitely not the proudest of my scores, but I passed. I got a 550 for the 103 and a 590 for the 104.
Honestly, I thought the first was easier, but I seemed to have got a lower score. Go figure.
Some advice for anybody taking these soon. I'm with WGU, so I used the material they provided, but in addition to these I also used CBT Nuggets for the videos and I practiced with what must have been 10 different instances of virtualbox, my favorite being CentOS 7. I used Mint 17 for my personal laptop. I made it a habit to use the command line every single time I wanted to complete a task.
The exam for 103 had 2 fill in the blanks which was nice, but 104 must have had around 15 I believe. I was very unprepared for that because I was expecting only a few. I would have passed with a much higher score for 104 if I'd study more.
Last thing, one of the mentors from WGU posted a share from google drive with a massive amount of practice questions which can be found here https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByXMDcxlNpReSnViaWp1XzBSSlU&usp=sharing
These helped me A LOT. LX0-103_104.Study.Questions was the most helpful. Spend some time with these and you WILL pass!
Good luck for all you future linux certified peeps!
Honestly, I thought the first was easier, but I seemed to have got a lower score. Go figure.
Some advice for anybody taking these soon. I'm with WGU, so I used the material they provided, but in addition to these I also used CBT Nuggets for the videos and I practiced with what must have been 10 different instances of virtualbox, my favorite being CentOS 7. I used Mint 17 for my personal laptop. I made it a habit to use the command line every single time I wanted to complete a task.
The exam for 103 had 2 fill in the blanks which was nice, but 104 must have had around 15 I believe. I was very unprepared for that because I was expecting only a few. I would have passed with a much higher score for 104 if I'd study more.
Last thing, one of the mentors from WGU posted a share from google drive with a massive amount of practice questions which can be found here https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByXMDcxlNpReSnViaWp1XzBSSlU&usp=sharing
These helped me A LOT. LX0-103_104.Study.Questions was the most helpful. Spend some time with these and you WILL pass!
Good luck for all you future linux certified peeps!
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Man, 15 fill-in-the-blanks?! I think I only had 10 or 11 - tops!
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not trying to be 'that guy', but nothings more frustrating than misleading study material IMHO.
With the fill in the blanks, is it a literal you have to type the fill in or is it a drop down? I just went through the uCertify pre-assessment and there were some drop down menu questions which I'm guessing probably aren't the same thing. And one lab that asked for an ls switch (which I got wrong from muscle memory of ls -al. they wanted just -l apparently)
My personal approach is to go through the exam objectives, and actually lab out the scenarios, one command at a time. This doesn't work for everyone, but I'm literally paid to study, and have a 64GB Hyper-V server at my disposal. #FirstworldITproblems
Exam Objectives (for 102/104): https://www.lpi.org/study-resources/lpic-1-102-exam-objectives/
Good work Vincent.
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I'm using cybrary.it videos to study off right now, been using Redhat for the last 5 years but by no means an expert, what books should i get or would CBT Nuggets be ok?
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I found the Linux essentials the same, was many questions etc that were not covered in the study material. I to hope to maybe do Linux+ after I complete Security+ first.
Hmmm... I was thinking about these comments today as I read through the latest version of the 'official' study guide - and wow the book is wrong. They got that --configure flag right from the book, where it states exactly that it reconfigures an existing package. The man pages in an actual Debian install disagree - you are absolutely correct that it's --reconfigure
The book seems to be correct about the /etc/yum.repos.d so that question was sourced from somewhere else.
The other thing that stands out to me is the absence of the wall command in the text. I can't find it anywhere and it's listed as a keyword on the objectives. I mean, that's a HUGE oversight. I'm messaging the mentors about it, but since there's so many wgu folks here I'm going to post all the discrepancies I find in this thread as well as notify them about it.
No wonder folks are struggling to pass. The text we're given is either missing information or flat-out incorrect.
I'm using that textbook too. Is there any discernable order to the Study Questions? I'm going through the textbook one chapter at a time, so a little order would be nice.
Congrats and thanks for the link.
Did the 103 yesterday and passed with 740. Honestly I did not expect this but must say I did study a lot just for the exam. I've been a Linux administrator for about 10 years (on and off) but nothing real heavy. Saw about five 'fill in' questions which where not to difficult. Some question where frustrating because of the nitty gritty detail you are supposed to know. But there are also enough easy questions to buildup enough points to succeed.
I quoted Vincent because I had a look at the questions-doc in his link and a LOT of them where exactly from my exam yesterday so hopefully the part for 104 will help me to pass that exam as well.
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