October 15

michaelkahl

Well I'm new around, decided to sign up today since I found this site while studying.
Background
I've been preparing for this test casually for about 6 months now. I've used Ubuntu/Fedora as my Operating systems on all computers with the exception of my HTPC. Everything from work, home/personal use and even my netbook run Linux. I started taking a course covering the exam objectives of the Linux+ exam this semester.

Truth is: I'm nervous as all gets out.
I'll take on practice exam and feel good, take a different one and think WTH am I getting my self into? Am I ready?

Overall: Here's how I'm doing.
I average 70-85 on all practice exams I'm taking right now and even had a couple that I scored up around 90 on. I have been studying the course material in my class, various Linux+ Study Guides. I honestly want to pull my hair out sometimes.

Any tips? With 2 days to go should I reschedule? Any advise is appreciated, thanks in advance.

dynamik

If I were you, I'd hold off until you start doing better on practice exams. This was one of the most difficult exams I've taken. I scored lower than I wanted, and I was getting 100% on my practice exams.

You can read about my experience here: http://techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36137

Slowhand

Yup, definitely study up until you're getting 90% - 100% on your practice test, cold. This was a tricky exam, there are lots of questions on running programs from the CLI, as well as the options for a lot of the common ones. (Like knowing the difference between -r and -R, or -v and -V, which can be completely different from application to application.)

michaelkahl

Hmm, I'm in a pickle. Well sorta.
I spoke with my advisor, he thinks I should do ok, he took the exam a few years ago and feels I have a good grasp. Of course this is one man's opinion. I know a lot of times my biggest mistake is not reading through these practice exams well enough. They get exhausting. Trust me, I'm not trying to study by practice test alone.
I'm considering setting up a centos or fedora machine at home (on an old p4 hardware) and running it in CLI for 2-3 more weeks to go over this material a little more. Mainly I've been using my Ubuntu CLI which isnt to different, but different enough that it can throw you off on some things.
I don't want to rush things, my exam was covered in the cost of my course, which work paid for. So the biggest thing is I don't want to get into this habit of rescheduling over and over.

michaelkahl

November 5th is my new test date.

From practice exams I've taken I'm getting good feed back on my weakness. This is consistent across multiple test engines, configuration. So I am going to make a good effort on increasing my study time here. I'm consistently scoring 100% on hardware, 90%+ on networking, 85-90+ on installation, and 85% +/- 2% on the rest. Configuration is killing me at 50%.