One step at a time towards getting Linux Expertise – Passed LPIC-1 Exam 101 today
One step at a time towards getting Linux Expertise – Passed LPIC-1 Exam 101 today
I have been using Linux for at least more than 10 years now, however I am not an expert at all (I realised this especially during the exam I gave for LPIC-1 101 today morning at a Prometric center in Tampa, Florida). I am just a beginning UNIX system administrator try to learn and understand how it works. I am interested to do a IT certification in Linux. There are few Linux certifications available in the market. However, I chose LPIC due to its vendor neutral offer. Other certifications are normally vendor specific...
The exam was difficult than I expected. Until today morning, I thought it will be an easy exam, and will be a cake walk for me. But it is not.The exam was comparitively difficult than I thought, with "fill in the blanks" questtions, specific command options asked etc. I was really humiliated by not knowing some of the answers for sure. The questions were tricky. However I PASSED the 101 exam today.. So I am planning to write my lessons learned here and planning more for my 102 exam in next few weeks...
I used following study materials for the 101 exam:
LPI Exam in a nutshell
IBM DeveloperWorks Study Material
LinuxIT Tutorials
Some practice tests I tried:
http://www.gnosis.cx/publish/tech_index_lpi.html
http://www.linux-praxis.de/lpisim/lpi101sim/index.html
Practice Test on the LPI Exam in a nutshell book
As of December 2008, the LPIC1 101 exam objectives are divided into five topics. The objectives are expected to be changing in coming months. Please check the LPI website for the latest information. For my exam, the five topics are:
Hardware & Architecture
Linux Installation & Package Management
GNU & Unix Commands
Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
The X Window System
I thought I can easily get 100% score on the GNU & unix Commands section. But no luck....! There are questions which make you to think, unless you are sure about it, it is not easy to pick the correct answer(s).
I am planning to write more about how to prepare for this exam - Good news is there are a lot of tutorials on the internet - this, sometime makes it tougher - I made a mistake of not taking notes during my preparation. I should be preparing notes for my 102 exam for sure.
My preparation started with installing Linux Operating systems on my Dell Latitude laptop. I re-partitioned the hard disk and installed one Redhat based system (Fedora 10) and a debian based system (Ubuntu 8.10) along with Windows XP Professional. I was running GRUB on them.
I am planning to write more about my lessons learned on coming weeks. until then!!!
Vijay Chinnasamy
I have been using Linux for at least more than 10 years now, however I am not an expert at all (I realised this especially during the exam I gave for LPIC-1 101 today morning at a Prometric center in Tampa, Florida). I am just a beginning UNIX system administrator try to learn and understand how it works. I am interested to do a IT certification in Linux. There are few Linux certifications available in the market. However, I chose LPIC due to its vendor neutral offer. Other certifications are normally vendor specific...
The exam was difficult than I expected. Until today morning, I thought it will be an easy exam, and will be a cake walk for me. But it is not.The exam was comparitively difficult than I thought, with "fill in the blanks" questtions, specific command options asked etc. I was really humiliated by not knowing some of the answers for sure. The questions were tricky. However I PASSED the 101 exam today.. So I am planning to write my lessons learned here and planning more for my 102 exam in next few weeks...
I used following study materials for the 101 exam:
LPI Exam in a nutshell
IBM DeveloperWorks Study Material
LinuxIT Tutorials
Some practice tests I tried:
http://www.gnosis.cx/publish/tech_index_lpi.html
http://www.linux-praxis.de/lpisim/lpi101sim/index.html
Practice Test on the LPI Exam in a nutshell book
As of December 2008, the LPIC1 101 exam objectives are divided into five topics. The objectives are expected to be changing in coming months. Please check the LPI website for the latest information. For my exam, the five topics are:
Hardware & Architecture
Linux Installation & Package Management
GNU & Unix Commands
Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
The X Window System
I thought I can easily get 100% score on the GNU & unix Commands section. But no luck....! There are questions which make you to think, unless you are sure about it, it is not easy to pick the correct answer(s).
I am planning to write more about how to prepare for this exam - Good news is there are a lot of tutorials on the internet - this, sometime makes it tougher - I made a mistake of not taking notes during my preparation. I should be preparing notes for my 102 exam for sure.
My preparation started with installing Linux Operating systems on my Dell Latitude laptop. I re-partitioned the hard disk and installed one Redhat based system (Fedora 10) and a debian based system (Ubuntu 8.10) along with Windows XP Professional. I was running GRUB on them.
I am planning to write more about my lessons learned on coming weeks. until then!!!
Vijay Chinnasamy
Labels: Linux, Linux certification, LPIC, LPIC 101
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