Passed LPI exam 101

BeaverC32

Passed on the morning of April 7th

The exam was very heavy in package management -- you really need to master all options for dpkg and rpm. I went well outside what was covered in the LPI Certification in a Nutshell book, and I am glad I did. Read the manpages for each of these!!

Also tested fairly heavily on X Server (mainly know where to go to configure different settings), stream text editors such as sed, command redirection, usage of stdin/stdout/stderr, and dynamic libraries.

I actually liked the "free response" type questions where I needed to type in the answer from scratch -- I felt it tested my knowledge a bit better than the traditional multiple-choice questions.

Overall the objectives were covered fairly well, although I did see a few questions not mentioned in the official objectives AT ALL. I even went back after the test to see if I somehow missed them. Oh well, I passed regardless.

Next step is the LPI 102 exam. I will be using the same resources for this exam as well (Nutshell book by O'Reilley, IBM Developerworks tutorials, and hands-on with various distros).

Mishra

Good job! How do you like the LPI exams? How do they differ from MS? And do you think it is a newbie friendly exam?

Oh and how far do you want to go with LPI? I like your certification goals, they seem similar to what I want to see tagged on my name. Aside from comptia stuff.

BeaverC32

I liked that LPI exam for the most part, but some of the questions irritated me because they expected much more from you than what the objectives led you to believe. I can pretty much agree with Ahriakin's impressions from a while ago: http://techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28047

In comparison to MS, this exam was much more cut-and-dry. You are presented a question, and you must give the answer. There is no filtering of information in the LPI 101 exam like there is in MS exams (in other words, no 2-3 paragraph-long questions).

Is it a newbie-friendly exam? No. You need to really master the material covered in the objectives. By the time you do, I really don't think you could still be considered a newbie. This isn't to say that there still isn't a ton to learn

I will likely only pursue the junior-level LPI certification -- my current role would not benefit much from material covered in the higher level certs.

dynamik

Even though I'm a bit bitter over you making my cert list so small, I still have to offer my congratulations

Good luck with part deux!

BeaverC32

Even though I'm a bit bitter over you making my cert list so small

Don't worry about it Dynamik, size doesn't matter. Well, at least that is what my girlfriend tells me.

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Did I really just say that?

Slowhand

Good to hear about the pass, good luck on the 102.