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| Ian Poon 2002-12-02, 1:28 am |
| Dear all,
I would like to join the LPI exam. Would you please give me some advice and some good books for a newbie(Me) to study Linux and pass the exam?
Also, where can I find the statistics of the Top 10 IT cert. on the net?
Thanks,
Ian | |
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| The objectives of the LPI 101 and 102 exams were recently revamped, rendering existing books somewhat obsolete. Some objectives previously covered in the 102 exam were moved to 101, and vice versa. Thus if you study strictly by the books now available, you'll be surprised by what you see on 101.
That said, the books are still useful. I'll get to recommendations in a moment. First I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the objectives. A good start is the following article, which shows how the new objectives map to the old; you can use this as a guide to studying with existing books.
http://www.unixreview.com/documents...i1036090509292/
I would also suggest reviewing the objectives themselves as published by LPI:
http://www.lpi.org/p-obj-101rel2.html
http://www.lpi.org/cgi-bin/poms.py?examscreen=1&all=1
I am slowly working through my own study plan using these sources.
As for books, the single best book is the O'Reilly Nutshell:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lpicertnut/
This books is available for subscription from
http://safari.informit.com
if you would like an online version. That's my preference.
There were Coriolis Exam Cram books for 101 and 102 that were okay, plus an Exam Cram for 101 that was pretty good. You can pick these up pretty cheap at
http://www.halfpricecomputerbooks.com
but supplies are very limited. Do a search on "LPI" at "halfprice" to see what is available.
There there is the IBM developerWorks tutorial series for the LPI exams. Kind of lightweight, but a good start for someone with little or no background in Linux. Scan this page for the links, as well as a plethora of other nice Linux tutorials:
http://www-105.ibm.com/developerwor...ument&Count=500
Just don't forget that these tutorials were designed for the old objectives, so that some of what is in the "102" tutorials is now relevant for 101.
Finally, by all accounts, this is an exam that cannot be prepared for adequately without ample hands on experience, especially system administration from the command line. If you lack that experience, I suggest putting a linux box on a lan and then learning to administer it remotely via telnet or ssh. That will give you lots of hands on experience with the command line tools.
Hope this helps. | |
| Ian Poon 2002-12-02, 9:15 pm |
| Dear Baz,
Thanks for your kindly help. It helps me a lot!
Any good books to learn Linux administration for a beginner?
Regards,
Ian |
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