Just passed Linux+ LX0-104 Exam!
Hey all, Passed LX0-104 with a 750/500 ! Was very satisfying! Although it was not my first attempt...:
Quick bio: I graduated with two A.A.S degrees in Networking Technology and also, Information Systems Security in May of last year (2015). Since then I have obtained my Network+, Security+, and as of today - Linux+ certified.
Ok, so I passed the first exam (LX0-103) about 2 months ago. It was fairly hard -scored a 570, passing is 500. There are a lot of very long/obscure command parameters in the questions that are hard to remember. If I had had a console to be able to do a quick $command --help I would have scored higher.
I had the LX0-104 scheduled for 2 days after - I failed it! 485/500. Lame.
Rescheduled for a week later - failed again! 490/500.
So I decided I needed to supplement/change/revise my study plan and materials. I purchased CompTIA Certmaster -as I used it for Net+ and Sec+ - and it was really helpful. ( It was not available when I attempted the first two attempts -it is brand new.) And also CBT Nuggets videos.
I passed today with a 750! I almost aced it.! Here is what I learned and what I did to prepare:
Firstly, I must say that the book I started with (Sybex Study Guide, Third Edition) is NOT enough on its own. The main problem with this book is that a lot of the topics that they state you just need a "general understanding of" or "know it exists" - you really need to actually understand them IN FULL!. I had a Centos7 VM and a Debian VM and practiced everything in detail. I coupled that with Certmaster along with CBT Nuggets (2015 by Shawn Powers).
The CBT Nuggets were very valuable. I then used the objectives as a checklist and practiced everything on there until I understood it. I highly suggest doing everything from the command line (unless it pertains to the GUI/Display Manager stuff.
You must be comfortable with using the terminal/CLI. Period.
Hope this helps -happy to answer any questions!
Quick bio: I graduated with two A.A.S degrees in Networking Technology and also, Information Systems Security in May of last year (2015). Since then I have obtained my Network+, Security+, and as of today - Linux+ certified.
Ok, so I passed the first exam (LX0-103) about 2 months ago. It was fairly hard -scored a 570, passing is 500. There are a lot of very long/obscure command parameters in the questions that are hard to remember. If I had had a console to be able to do a quick $command --help I would have scored higher.
I had the LX0-104 scheduled for 2 days after - I failed it! 485/500. Lame.
Rescheduled for a week later - failed again! 490/500.
So I decided I needed to supplement/change/revise my study plan and materials. I purchased CompTIA Certmaster -as I used it for Net+ and Sec+ - and it was really helpful. ( It was not available when I attempted the first two attempts -it is brand new.) And also CBT Nuggets videos.
I passed today with a 750! I almost aced it.! Here is what I learned and what I did to prepare:
Firstly, I must say that the book I started with (Sybex Study Guide, Third Edition) is NOT enough on its own. The main problem with this book is that a lot of the topics that they state you just need a "general understanding of" or "know it exists" - you really need to actually understand them IN FULL!. I had a Centos7 VM and a Debian VM and practiced everything in detail. I coupled that with Certmaster along with CBT Nuggets (2015 by Shawn Powers).
The CBT Nuggets were very valuable. I then used the objectives as a checklist and practiced everything on there until I understood it. I highly suggest doing everything from the command line (unless it pertains to the GUI/Display Manager stuff.
You must be comfortable with using the terminal/CLI. Period.
Hope this helps -happy to answer any questions!
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Correct Linux+ doesn't expire currently. However, your LPIC-1 will expire, go inactive, whatever LPI calls it, after a certain amount of time
As far as distro's go, It is for the most part neutral -there were probably just a handful of RedHat or Debian specific questions. These two underlying distro's are the foundation of the most common out there (RedHat -Fedora, CentOS, and Debian -Ubuntu, Kali, Mint) and of course there is SUSE (SLES, openSUSE, Leap). The main difference between the 3 is how packages are managed, i.e RedHat distro's use YUM to install/manage packages, and Debian variants use APT-GET/aptitude. SUSE uses zypper.
Package management is covered in the lx0-103 exam. Other than that there are just a few config files (network config files differ off the top of my head) that differ from distro to distro. As I said I had CentOS7 (RedHat) and Linux Mint (Debian) virtual machines up at all times while studying using VMware workstation. When watching the CBT Nuggets I would follow along (I would ssh in using Putty and have a prompt for each VM on one half of my screen. Same when doing the Certmaster questions.
Although in hindsight, I would have preferred more performance type questions -as the multiple choice questions were ironically difficult because of how almost identical some of the answers can be. At least a dozen times between both exams I found myself with problems where I had boiled it down to 2 possible answers -and they would be very, very similar (as in space or no space, double brackets...or single., uppercase flag..or lowercase flag?!, etc.).
I purchased a comprehensive RedHat study guide from this linux website, Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides - you will see it posted in there for $35
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