On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 12:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am finally seriously looking into getting a Linux certification. So > for, I have identified four certifications out there. > > 1. Red Hat Certified Engineer > 2. Red Hat Certified Technician > 3. CompTIA Linux+ > 4. LPI Certification > > From what I have read online, the Linux+ is the simplest of them all, > and they move on up from LPI, to the RHCT, to the RHCE in difficulty. > Also, I can not afford classroom time for any of these, and will > probably end up studying independatly. I would appreciate anyone > comments on these certifications, and your experiences with them.
Hi Jason, I would probably agree with you in your assessment of the difficulty of the various certifications, though I don't know much about the LPI. I at one point studied a Linux+ practice test (in the bookstore without paying for the book -- my favorite way of studying!) and decided it was so simple, it wasn't worth paying for the certification. I then obtained my RHCT and subsequently the RHCE. I self-studied for both using materials available on the web, such as the Red Hat manuals (coupled with the test outlines they publish), and with a test machine. For the RHCE, I participated in a study group run by TriLUG members on the http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/rhce/ mailing list. I really enjoyed this study group; we had a lot of experienced people presenting and discussing, I learned a lot and hopefully helped some other folks too. There is another iteration of this study group going on now; they are going a little more slowly than we did and are being a little more "distro agnostic" instead of focusing on Red Hat. I can't comment much on the details of the RHCT and RHCE due to the NDA, but I might suggest that you skip the RHCT and go straight for the RHCE. The E test is a superset of the T, and if you pass the T portions, but not the E portions, you'll receive get the RHCT cert. (You do still end up paying the whole $750 however.) I do recommend the Michael Jang RHCE study book... it's not perfect (indeed it refers to "Red Hat Linux 10" in some places and other similar gaffes), but it's very useful. Incidentally, I also have my CompTIA A+ certification; I felt that test was a joke. I did study some for the hardware portion but not for the Windows section. I haven't administered Windows in YEARS and feel I would be fairly incompetent as a Windows sysadmin. Yet I managed to pass it even so, just by figuring out which answers were obviously wrong. Multiple choice exams are really pretty a pretty weak way of testing this kind of stuff. And indeed Red Hat has recently removed the multiple choice section of the RHCE for this kind of reason. Does anyone have more info about the LPI certs and how they compare with the RHC[TE] ? --Jeremy P.S. Note that the RHC[TE] are now based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Unless you are a student, faculty, or staff at an educational institution, you won't be able to get this at a very good price. So I recommend installing CentOS or WBEL, which are rebuilt from the RHEL 3 source RPMS. See this list's archives for more discussion of these RHEL clones. -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/
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