LPI Certification

[mcgooie]

I am looking to do the LPIC-1 certification soon copmrising exam 101 and 102. After that i will probably do the extra exam for ubuntu certification.

I was curious if anyone here has done it before and could recommend a good book/software to aid passing. I have been using ubuntu for nearly two years now and i am pretty comfortable using the terminal. I am also soon to graduate with an IT degree from university so i can pick things up pretty quickly. How much time would i need in order to pass?

Many thanks

[StOoZ]

try reading here
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/lpi/index.html

[John.Michael.Kane]

I am looking to do the LPIC-1 certification soon copmrising exam 101 and 102. After that i will probably do the extra exam for ubuntu certification.

I was curious if anyone here has done it before and could recommend a good book/software to aid passing. I have been using ubuntu for nearly two years now and i am pretty comfortable using the terminal. I am also soon to graduate with an IT degree from university so i can pick things up pretty quickly. How much time would i need in order to pass?

Many thanks

LPI 101 Certification Practice Test (http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/exam101.html)
Linux Professional Institute (LPI) exam prep (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/lpi/index.html)
LPI Linux Certification (LPIC) practice exam links (http://www.certification-crazy.net/lpi_study.htm)

Some information can be found on the Ubuntu Certified Engineer (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EngineerCertification) regarding what might be covered on the 199 test.

Books that might help.
Ubuntu Certified Professional Study Guide (Exam LPI 199) (http://www.amazon.com/Ubuntu-Certified-Professional-Study-Guide/dp/0071591109/ref=pd_sim_b_3/180-1022228-1642065)
LPIC-1 In Depth (http://www.amazon.com/LPIC-1-Depth-Michael-Jang/dp/1598639676)

[motoperpetuo]

is the IBM tutorial for the LPIC good? i'm wondering because my company uses a lot of IBM software, such as lotus notes and clearcase, and they're some of the worst applications i've ever seen (slow, buggy, unstable, terrible interfaces). i've come to associate IBM with incompetence and poor quality, but hopefully their LPIC info is better than their windows software.

[smorgan79]

If you are looking to get Linux LPI certified (http://www.firebrandtraining.co.uk/courses/linux/linux.asp) then you can talk to us.

We at Firebrand Training offer a 6 day accelerated/bootcamp Linux LPI Level 1 and CompTIA Linux+ courses. At the end of the course you will sit for the 117-101B and 117-102B courses.

If you are looking for an intermediate level then we offer a 7 day bootcamp LP1 Level 2 (http://www.firebrandtraining.co.uk/courses/linux/lpi-level-2) certification and at the end of the course you will sit for the Exam 201 and Exam 202.

We are a LPI approved training partner and very sure you will pass it first time and if not then you can enroll again for free.

If you are interested then do give us a call at +44-844-888-1600

Hope this helps.

[motoperpetuo]

it's nice to know that there's formal training for the LPIC available. unfortunately, the pricing (well over $5000 US) is far, far too expensive for me, as i suspect it would be for most people looking to get the LPIC on their own. hopefully i'll have a company willing to pay for training like that some day.

abrupt subject change: everyone should note that the study guides on the ibm developerworks site are currently out of date. there's a notice there stating that updated versions are in the works.

[Icehuck]

it's nice to know that there's formal training for the LPIC available. unfortunately, the pricing (well over $5000 US) is far, far too expensive for me, as i suspect it would be for most people looking to get the LPIC on their own. hopefully i'll have a company willing to pay for training like that some day.

abrupt subject change: everyone should note that the study guides on the ibm developerworks site are currently out of date. there's a notice there stating that updated versions are in the works.

I haven't seen any formal training centers for LPI in the US. Red Hat will do formal training but you have to go to them and costs about $1000 per session.

[Xbehave]

my uni didn't go so well but I'm looking to go straight into IT (i failed chemistry, but CBA to spend 3years to get a degree in IT), so i'm taking the LPIC 101 exam on wednesday, I'm teaching myself (fully getting my head round regex now (dear god perldoc perlretut is looong)) because i know most of the practice questions, I'll post next thursday if the 101 exam is a harder/easier than those posted online.

[motoperpetuo]

my uni didn't go so well but I'm looking to go straight into IT (i failed chemistry, but CBA to spend 3years to get a degree in IT), so i'm taking the LPIC 101 exam on wednesday, I'm teaching myself (fully getting my head round regex now (dear god perldoc perlretut is looong)) because i know most of the practice questions, I'll post next thursday if the 101 exam is a harder/easier than those posted online.

how did the exam go? i'd very much like to find out if there are any practice questions online that are comparable in difficulty to what's actually on the LPIC. the study questions in my sybex LPIC-1 study guide are supposedly (according to the reviews at amazon.com) far easier than what's on the exam.

the more realistic practice questions i can find, the better. i did my MCSA last year, and i found studying practice questions at least as important as studying the microsoft manuals themselves. unfortunately, it seems much, much more difficult to find good LPIC practice questions.

[Xbehave]

I only did 101, it was pretty much what I expected from the example questions and detailed objectives here (https://www.lpi.org/eng/certification/the_lpic_program/lpic_1), just two notes:
1) The difficulty was something like this (http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/exam101.html), although those questions don't map well to the objectives anymore (oh and some of the answers on that site are wrong)
2) yes they really do still have questions about lilo (well i got 1 in my exam)

You will note from the spec that its all CLI based, so it's worth knowing your tools and redirections, i taught myself by reading man pages and online tutorials.