[lpi-discuss] Re: LPI3 Tutorials

[Ian Shields]

lpi-discuss-bounces at lpi.org wrote on 04/10/2008 03:03:16 AM:

> Re: [lpi-discuss] Re: LPI3 Tutorials
> 
> Alan McKinnon 
> 
> I wouldn't know where to start with a tutorial for an examination at 
> that level. It's a reasonable assumption that an LPIC-3 candidate for 
> an exam on LDAP has already read all the related man pages and quite a 
> few books. I would also expect that such an exam asks questions that 
> are not in books in bullet form.
> 
I'd suggest not getting hung up on the 'tutorial' nomenclature. This kind 
of material on IBM developerWorks is either an article or a tutorial. 
Articles are freely accessible while tutorials (except for some translated 
versions) require registration, which is your contribution to helping us 
justify providing them at no cost. Our LPIC-1 tutorials probably do teach 
you enough to pass LPIC-1, although your odds are less if you don't ever 
do any of the examples yourself. At the higher levels, LPIC-2 and LPIC-3 
tutorials are more in the nature of review material to help you prepare 
for the exam. They are also translated into some other languages, which 
particularly helps folks for whom there is little or no other material in 
their own language.

You are welcome to register for the tutorials and check them out. You may 
also submit feedback through the ratings form that is available with every 
one of our articles or tutorials, or you may email me directly with 
comments. If you read Russian, you don't even need to register (see for 
example http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ru/edu/l-lpic3302/).

While I agree that we should expect that the LPIC-3 exam asks questions 
that are not in books in bullet form, I do think many people value review 
material for any written exam, no matter how much they already know about 
the subject. I believe our tutorials address that need.

Ian Shields Ph.D.
Linux  Technologist, ISV & Developer Relations
IBM Corp
Research Triangle Park, NC
ishields at us.ibm.com


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