Test your Linux Skills

Jza · Post by **Jza** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:11 pm

So I want to get an LPI ceritification, my first reaction was... bah piece of cake. However I just recently present 2 sample tests and the score was too embarasing to mention

So the question how long will your embarassment go once u go through the bootcamp.

Share your linux skills the LPI way here:
http://www.linux-praxis.de/lpisim/lpi.html

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 10:01 pm

My experience with the LPI is essentially that it's a mixture of linux and the A+. This was a few years ago, so I might be way off base, but that was my impression. A huge amount of the stuff I saw was the kind of stuff that was on, say, the RHCT for RH7 - lpr, /etc/fstab, hardware troubleshooting, etc. Is it different these days?

Jza · Post by **Jza** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 10:58 pm

Snarkout wrote:My experience with the LPI is essentially that it's a mixture of linux and the A+. This was a few years ago, so I might be way off base, but that was my impression. A huge amount of the stuff I saw was the kind of stuff that was on, say, the RHCT for RH7 - lpr, /etc/fstab, hardware troubleshooting, etc. Is it different these days?

Well since this is not the actual test there is noway to know. But why dont you try it, is free.

And lpr /etc/fstab and hardware troubleshooting is expected to be on any linux certification, even unix ones.

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:32 am

I scored 58.82, which is 20 right out of 34 (on the LP101 test).
Most of it seemed reasonable, but a bit outdated. Some of the stuff was Debian specific, which is probably where I lost a lot of points.
There was at least 1 question where I felt like their answer was wrong.

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:03 am

Just did LP102 test.
Score: 42.42 (14 of 33 correct)

Good test, but definitely outdated. All the kernel stuff is 2.4 era, which I suppose is OK if you're running an old server.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:09 pm

Or slackware.

Jza · Post by **Jza** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:12 pm

Gomer_X wrote:I scored 58.82, which is 20 right out of 34 (on the LP101 test).
Most of it seemed reasonable, but a bit outdated. Some of the stuff was Debian specific, which is probably where I lost a lot of points.
There was at least 1 question where I felt like their answer was wrong.

This is the great stuff, that you get asked of both Debian (deb based) and Red Hat (RPM based) systems. They ask on both dpkg and rpm as well as apt-get.

I am glad about this because you are not restricted to YUM, Anaconda and Kudzu on a RHEL Cerification.

Bjerrk · Post by **Bjerrk** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:19 pm

Snarkout wrote:Or slackware.

I run Slackware on three machines, and none of them run a 2.4 kernel, but then again, some people do.

Ruhar · Post by **Ruhar** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 4:12 pm

Or slackware

..Ouch, that hurt.

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:05 am

Bjerrk wrote:
Snarkout wrote:Or slackware.
I run Slackware on three machines, and none of them run a 2.4 kernel, but then again, some people do.

My web host runs Debian on 2.4 series kernels. I suppose it's stable, but the performance improvements in 2.6 are worth the upgrade.

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:08 am

Jza wrote:This is the great stuff, that you get asked of both Debian (deb based) and Red Hat (RPM based) systems. They ask on both dpkg and rpm as well as apt-get.

I am glad about this because you are not restricted to YUM, Anaconda and Kudzu on a RHEL Cerification.

I just don't see the point. For the RHCE obviously you need to know Red Hat stuff.

For a general certification I don't think I need to know the specifics of rpms OR debs. That's what man pages are for. Most people are using one or the other and don't need to know the details of both.

doublejoon · Post by **doublejoon** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:28 pm

Do American companies recognize LPI cert. I have never seen it on an advertised job description (Just RH certs). Just curious