Excellent point Ross. Way back in the day when I was delivering training, I had 100% failure rate of people trying LPIC-1 without doing the practical heavy lifting first.
Now maybe that sounds like I was a lousy trainer, but I don't think so. I think it sounds more like the quality of the exam and that it really does measure what it says it does. The cusp point seemed to be about 6 months of working with Linux daily. I do mean daily, not just having Ubuntu on a virtualbox that the student pokes a stick at once a day maybe. Really get in there and do admin for real, if it's your employers hardware, so much the better (because that makes it real life). It's a bit counter-intuitive for newbies - they wonder how can a multiple-choice exam possibly measure real life experience and performance as opposed to book learning, but the truth is that LPI has managed to get it right. If you have the experience and understand your tools, you almost certainly will pass the exam as it's really answering this simple question "prove to me that you really can do what you do every day". And that ain't book learning! On 28/12/2013 19:29, Ross Brunson wrote: > Exactly, thank you gentlemen for adding that important fact, (you have > to use it a LOT, practice EVERYTHING) something I take for granted, but > definitely needs to be reinforced to someone who is approaching this > from the front end! > > Ross > > > -- > Ross Brunson > Director of Member Services > Linux Professional Institute > em: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > sk: rossbrunson > ph: 916.304.2112 > > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Guus Snijders <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Op 28 dec. 2013 12:33 schreef "Alessandro. Selli" > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> het > volgende: > > > > > > Il 28/12/2013 12:28, Guus Snijders ha scritto: > > > > [...] > > > > > Note that no single book/resource is the final answer. You'll > > > definitly want to study man pages, howtos, etc. > > > > He will /need/ to read the manuals, of course, but he will /have to/ > > *use* Linux for his daily needs in order to actually learn it. > > Of course. With LPI, hands-on experience is more important than some > other certifications (e.g. ms). > > Just reading won't cut it. > > mvg, Guus > > > _______________________________________________ > lpi-discuss mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss > > > > > _______________________________________________ > lpi-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss > -- Alan McKinnon [email protected] _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
