Linux+ passed today!!

Passed the LX0-102 today with score 590.
It took me 70 days to prepare from scratch and passed the two exams - LX0-101 on 5/20/13, LX0-102 today.

The reference books I used are as follows:
LPIC-1/Comptia Linux+ Certificate Exam Guide (Exams LPIC-1/LX0-101 & LX0-102), by Robb Tracy
Comptia Linux+ Complete Study Guide (Exam LX0-101, Exam LX0-102), by Roderick W Smith
LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell - A Desktop Quick Reference, 3rd Edition, by Adam Haeder, et al.

I practice on Suse, Fedora, Ubuntu installed on VirtualBox hosted by a Dell Desktop running Win 7 Pro 64-bit.

I failed for each test on first try. Frustrating

Anyway I'm glad I make it through

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shortcut144

Congratulations! Glad you made it!

brownwrap

Good work. Congratulations.

DoubleNNs

Congratulations!!

Dakinggamer87

Congrats on pass!!

What's next?

yuanyong

Thanks very much!! My next goal is MCSA and CCNA. Time is running out...

Concerned Water

Congrats!!

Sounds Good

Congrats!

What would you say were the reasons you failed the first time for both of them?

Master Of Puppets

Congrats!

SharkDiver

Congratulations!!!

yuanyong wrote: »

I practice on Suse, Fedora, Ubuntu installed on VirtualBox hosted by a Dell Desktop running Win 7 Pro 64-bit.

Which distro would you use for the exam if you could only choose one?

brownwrap

SharkDiver wrote: »

Congratulations!!!

Which distro would you use for the exam if you could only choose one?

Isn't that sort of the point of the exam, you can't just choose one. I have worked a lot on Redhat types of systems, but have hardly no experience on Debian like Linux and the exam covers both.

SharkDiver

brownwrap wrote: »

Isn't that sort of the point of the exam, you can't just choose one. I have worked a lot on Redhat types of systems, but have hardly no experience on Debian like Linux and the exam covers both.

OK, I didn't realize that. I was thinking more like when I took the CCNA exam, it was based on a certain switch and certain router at a certain software revision.

N2IT

Congratz, very cool certification.

shart1971

Congratulations!

biosdisk

Congrats, those are no easy certs by any means. Typing out commands with arguments without the man pages is tricky.

xkaijinx

Would you say that Linux + would now allow him to land a Jr. Linux Admin job now?

lsud00d

Congrats yuanyong! Welcome to the few, the proud....j/k, it's not like RHCE but it's still a respectable entry level cert!

@xkaijinx, Yes, I would definitely say that the L+ would land him a linux admin job...I landed one without it but was required to get it within 2 months of starting. From that point on I fell in love with linux and I feel that not everyone is cut out for it. Even for future positions it will make you stand out above the rest and I can say this from experience.

ccnxjr

Congrats on the pass!
Not a simple task and thanks for posting the resources that helped!

log32

good luck, go for RHCE! spectacular certificate to have, and a hard one to achieve.

Dakinggamer87

Linux+ seems like a great cert to go after. Maybe this will be my next certification journey!!

WilliamWright

What would a Linux+ Cert do for you? What opportunities?

brownwrap

WilliamWright wrote: »

What would a Linux+ Cert do for you? What opportunities?

In my case, it will help me keep my job. I work DOD. The last job wanted Solaris 10 System Administration Certification. This job wants Linux+. I can't seem to convince anyone, that the Sol 10 is enough. Afterall, I just stepped right into this job and started working, but they want that paper.