Just passed 101
varelg
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I just sat the LPIC 101 exam today and passed! Score isn't particulary high 590 out of 800 but I'll take it, I actually wanted 501 out of 800 with 500 being the pass minimum, I just love to see three-point shots scored at the buzzard of a basketball game.
It wasn't a festival of the bizzare like I thought it would be, questions were fairly straight forward and there were no complicated scenarios that hide what you are actually tested on. There was plenty of time for review. More than once I caught myself saying "oooough, I saw this somewhere in the prep material but I just can't remember exactly now". Looking back at the sims for this exam that are on the net, some of them were actually more difficult than the exam itself. However, it wasn't exactly a walk in the park either.
Since most of the guides for 101 are outdated or irrelevant and having in mind my bitter expirience with third-party guides (and since there's no official LPI guide all guides are third party) I used many sources for the prep. Mainly, I used coreutils and grub man pages and also one of the best books on Linux, Sobell's "Linux command line and shell scripting" with a multitude of articles, tutorials and howto's from various sources.
102 seems like a logical next step although I am not terribly happy about having to compile my own prep material again. Novell's Certified Linux Admin certification looks a bit more organized, because of both the availibility of authorized prep material and certification path once you pass that exam.
I am off to regain my social life back after spending months in isolation and then I'll see about the next cert to be taken.
It wasn't a festival of the bizzare like I thought it would be, questions were fairly straight forward and there were no complicated scenarios that hide what you are actually tested on. There was plenty of time for review. More than once I caught myself saying "oooough, I saw this somewhere in the prep material but I just can't remember exactly now". Looking back at the sims for this exam that are on the net, some of them were actually more difficult than the exam itself. However, it wasn't exactly a walk in the park either.
Since most of the guides for 101 are outdated or irrelevant and having in mind my bitter expirience with third-party guides (and since there's no official LPI guide all guides are third party) I used many sources for the prep. Mainly, I used coreutils and grub man pages and also one of the best books on Linux, Sobell's "Linux command line and shell scripting" with a multitude of articles, tutorials and howto's from various sources.
102 seems like a logical next step although I am not terribly happy about having to compile my own prep material again. Novell's Certified Linux Admin certification looks a bit more organized, because of both the availibility of authorized prep material and certification path once you pass that exam.
I am off to regain my social life back after spending months in isolation and then I'll see about the next cert to be taken.
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i'm abt a month away from doing both 101,102 at the same time.
Well if the rule doesn't allow that, then i'll do the other the next day ..........full price
Good luck on the 102.
Congrats on your pass. Any recommendation on study material for the 101 and 102 exams? Any books or online tutorials?
Thanks!
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