Comptia Linux+ or LPIC-1??

pamccabepamccabe Member Posts: 315 ■■■□□□□□□□
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Sorry but I'm confused. It seems that either you can take Linux+ and it takes care of the first exam requirement for LPIC-1, or you take two exams for LPIC-1. Is there any recommendations on what to take first?

I'm a year into schooling which has me taking classes in administrating CentOS via the command line. I currently do not run Linux at home so that is as far as my knowledge goes.
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  • stryder144stryder144 Member Posts: 1,684 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Linux+, if I remember correctly, requires two tests and is "powered by LPI". That means when you pass the requirements for Linux+, you pass the requirements for LPIC-1 and two Novell certs. Two tests, four certs.
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  • BryzeyBryzey Member Posts: 260
    You'll also want to familiarize yourself with a debian flavour if you plan to certify. I used debian and Centos. This way you are familiar with the different package managers which you'll be tested on.
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  • pamccabepamccabe Member Posts: 315 ■■■□□□□□□□
    stryder144 wrote: »
    Linux+, if I remember correctly, requires two tests and is "powered by LPI". That means when you pass the requirements for Linux+, you pass the requirements for LPIC-1 and two Novell certs. Two tests, four certs.

    Wow, so if I were to pass Linux+, I'd get LPIC-1?? I see LPIC-1 is two exams also so I just want to be sure.
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  • pamccabepamccabe Member Posts: 315 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Bryzey wrote: »
    You'll also want to familiarize yourself with a debian flavour if you plan to certify. I used debian and Centos. This way you are familiar with the different package managers which you'll be tested on.

    Thanks for the suggestion. I'll work on getting some VMs setup.
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  • stryder144stryder144 Member Posts: 1,684 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Yes, take just the Linux+ exams and you will get the LPIC-1. Just make sure to read carefully how to do so. You'll find a thread about it here.
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  • Kinet1cKinet1c Member Posts: 604 ■■■■□□□□□□
    pamccabe wrote: »
    Wow, so if I were to pass Linux+, I'd get LPIC-1?? I see LPIC-1 is two exams also so I just want to be sure.

    Linux+ = LPIC-1
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  • EV42TMANEV42TMAN Member Posts: 256
    as others have mentioned, if you do linux+ you'll get LPIC-1. But the detail that gets left out is if you do LPIC-1 you DON'T get Linux+ so don't do it backwards.
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  • pamccabepamccabe Member Posts: 315 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Thanks so much for the information guys. I appreciate it. Going to start rolling with this tonight...
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  • ITrascalITrascal Member Posts: 55 ■■■□□□□□□□
    better do it this way before they end up changing it!!!
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