[lpi-discuss]Question about the test?

Tue Apr 6 12:14:32 EDT 2004

Suggest you check the objectives on the LPI site against the book,
notice that installation is now on test 1, etc. etc.

Ross

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 10:48, Duane.McGeean at CGI-Europe.com wrote:
> I am using the exact same book, and so far it seems fine !!!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Freddy Hurkmans [mailto:freddy.hurkmans at sioux.nl] 
> Sent: 05 April 2004 22:04
> To: lpi-discuss at lpi.org
> Subject: Re: [lpi-discuss]Question about the test?
> 
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> I have an O'Reilly book here that's called: "LPI Linux certification
> in 
> a nutshell". I find the book very good and very usefull!
> 
> Details:
> ISBN: 1-56592-748-6
> US $39.95
> CAN $59.95
> 
> Good luck with your study!
> Freddy Hurkmans
> 
> 
> Mike Partyka wrote:
> 
> > Ack! Now i am not so sure i am ready.
> > 
> > That's very dissapointing to hear that the Linux+ and LPI are not
> very 
> > close to one another. Novell did some LPI prep training and that's 
> > what i was going through to prepare. In their presentation they 
> > reference pages in the book to look for more detail.
> > 
> > If the objectives are so far disparate i wonder why they would use
> the
> > Linux+ book?
> > 
> > Could you recommend a book to take a look at that is only for LPI 
> > objectives? I looked on LPI.org and referenced some of the books
> they 
> > listed there on amazon to see what people were saying and none of
> the 
> > books seemed to be particularly well received. I know your somewhat 
> > conflicted since you do an lpi prep course. BTW, I tried to sell my 
> > company on it but the timing was unfortunate because we are working
> on 
> > a major application roll-out and they said they wanted that to be
> the 
> > focus and they would consider training later. I just didn't want to 
> > wait so i started hitting the books.
> > 
> > I'd be happy to send you the Novell course i have been going through
> > if you wanted to take a look. Or send you the a ROM, it's about 80M.
> > Might be interesting for you to see all the materials out there that
> > people can use.
> > 
> > Well thanks for the warning in any case. It's difficult to satisfy
> the 
> > objectives of the test and yet become more proficient on the
> platform 
> > of choice at work. In the end you have to learn three or more ways
> to 
> > do the same thing on different distro's . . .<sighs> ahh well.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "ross brunson" <ross at brunson.org>
> > To: <lpi-discuss at lpi.org>
> > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 12:32 AM
> > Subject: Re: [lpi-discuss]Question about the test?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 02:16, Mike Partyka wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hello,
> >>>
> >>>    Just thought i would say, i believe i am ready to take the LPI 
> >>>level 1 and the level 2 shortly thereafter.
> >>>
> >>>I have been using some training i got off Usenet and a book that
> goes 
> >>>along with it called "Linux+ In depth" by Jason W. Eckert and M.
> John 
> >>>Schitka.
> >>
> >>Mike, not to be an, ahem, "unbeliever", but if you're studying a 
> >>Linux+ book to take LPIC Level 1 and soon thereafter Level 2, that 
> >>Usenet study material better be pretty darned good!
> >>
> >>The objectives for Linux+ and LPIC Level 1 are not a very good 
> >>crossmatch, there's plenty of material in LPIC 1 that's not an 
> >>objective in Linux+, and Level 2 and Linux+ aren't even on the same 
> >>PLANET!
> >>
> >>
> >>> I think it's probably one of the best books i have ever looked at 
> >>>for really useful information in a very readable format. The only 
> >>>thing that worries me is the book (and the CBT course) is based on 
> >>>RedHat 7.3. I have a vmware installation of that along with RedHat 
> >>>Enterprise Linux 3 (At work we use at work RHEL 2.1 and 3 AS)
> >>
> >>I have done a _lot_ of training for the LPIC Level 1 and Red Hat 7.3
> >>and the like are just fine, the exam was developed around that
> version 
> >>and of Debian 2.2/3.0 also.  Kara has mentioned that any
> LSB-compliant 
> >>distribution will work, but RHEL is way out of line with the exams, 
> >>(and pretty much any other distribution, if you ask me...).
> >>
> >>
> >>>My concern is that my traingin material is dated, as there are some
> >>>pretty serious differences between 7.3 and RHEL, such as some of
> the 
> >>>Xwindows files, and especially the printing information. 7.3 being 
> >>>based on simply using the lpd and RHEL using CUPS. How current is
> the 
> >>>LPI level 1 and 2. Should i focus on the 7.3 material?
> >>
> >>It's not that the exam is out of date, it's based on Linux as a
> whole, 
> >>not Red Hat in a corner.  Studying using exclusively Red Hat will
> warp 
> >>your brain and cause little fedora-sporting bob young's to dance in 
> >>your peripheral vision.  Load up a version of Knoppix in that VMWare
> >>distro you have and get a second opinion on Linux from the masters.
> >>
> >>
> >>>Or has the test kept pretty up to date and i'll need to be able to 
> >>>answer questions about CUPS?
> >>
> >>Read the Objectives, you'll see that only LPD-related objectives are
> >>there, and make sure to look at the permissions for the /etc/passwd 
> >>and /etc/shadow files on both RH 7.3 and Debian...
> >>
> >>
> >>>Also, does anyone know of a source of good test prep questions?
> >>
> >>Good Luck, and check out the cramsession.com LPIC Level 1 forum for 
> >>more tips and http://www.linuxtrainers.biz.
> >>
> >>Ross
> >>
> >>
> >>>Thanks, so much
> >>>
> >>>Mike Partyka
> >>>Stonepath Logistics
> >>>Minneapolis, MN
> >>>
> >>
> >>--
> >>
> >>Ross
> >>
> >>Ross Brunson
> >>LPIC1,SCSA,LCI,LCA,Inet+,Linux+
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> >>
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