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| The VMS Kid 2002-03-25, 9:40 am |
| Well, I wrote the Linux+ this morning and passed it with an 800 out of a possible 900. I thought the test was basically an easy one as long as you have e decent grasp of the material. There were 95 questions on the exam, took me about 20 minutes to complete. All multiple choice, single-answer questions. You have to know your command line, nothing too detailed, just the basics. An good understanding of the main utilities, pipes and redirection. A number of these questions could be answered based upon an understanding of general Unix syntax, even if you didn't know the utlities themselves. There was a good bit on knowing which logs one had to look in for messages of various kinds, a few FIPS/fdisk questions. A good bit of "useradd", "groupadd" and general sysadmin questions. Know the major files in the /etc directory and what is in them, i.e., etc/groups, /etc/passwd, /etc/services and so on. You have to know what NFS, NIS and Samba are, but no configuration questions were asked.
An important note: Don't even THINK of taking this exam unless you have your A+ or the equivalent amount of knowledge. the exam goes very heavily on SCSI and disks and peripherals in general. Many of the hardware questions had nothing to do with Linux. So review your A+ material, as I would say about 20-25% of the questions were on hardware.
I used Roderick Smith's "Linux+ Study Guide" from Sybex. It was an excellent guide for the test, although a bit weak on the hardware. I also used "Special Edition Using Caldera OpenLinux" from Vue and "Running Linux", both EXCELLENT resources, and not just for the test. I think using those books for several months in conjunction with using Linux will be a betetr preparation than a month or so of studying the "Study Guides" designed to pass the test, though.
I have used Slackware, SusE, Red Hat and Caldera, as well as SunOS and HP-UX over the course of about two years and use Red Hat Linux exclusively on my home box, so this helped me a lot.
Anyway, that's the dope. Good luck to everyone else who wants to write the exam.  | |
| onoski 2002-03-25, 10:12 am |
|  Congratulations on your pass, and thanks for the info. | |
| Supertech 2002-03-25, 1:17 pm |
| Should we change that from "The VMS Kid" to "The Linux Dude"? | |
| The VMS Kid 2002-03-25, 1:29 pm |
| Hey, dude, my VMS system is still up and running! (Might be the last in the world but it's still going strong). 
Anyway, Linux rules as well since I got my cert in it now.
HP-UX, here I come! | |
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| PotatoHead 2002-03-25, 5:47 pm |
| Way to go man!! | |
| ccieToBe 2002-03-25, 8:06 pm |
| Congrats. You must have really known your stuff to go through the test that fast. | |
| wildscribe 2002-03-25, 10:21 pm |
| Congratulations! And thanks for telling us how you studied. I have to take Linux+ in a few months and your feedback has helped point me in the right direction.
- Wild | |
| TW2001 2002-03-26, 3:03 am |
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Hey, dude, my VMS system is still up and running! (Might be the last in the world but it's still going strong
Well now I know there are two We have one at the Data Center I work at as well.Tucked away far out of sight
Congrats. | |
| PCDude 2002-03-26, 4:04 am |
| Congratulations!! | |
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| cross36 2002-03-26, 8:00 am |
| 800 out of a 900? That's still an awesome reach.
Nicely Done! | |
| The VMS Kid 2002-03-26, 8:01 am |
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Originally posted by wildscribe
Congratulations! And thanks for telling us how you studied. I have to take Linux+ in a few months and your feedback has helped point me in the right direction.
- Wild
Sure, let me know if there is anything else that you want to know about it. Good luck! | |
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| The VMS Kid 2002-03-28, 10:31 am |
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Originally posted by ccieToBe
"How did we do it? Well, when you start with a starving electrical engineering student, a staff programmer with way too much time on his hands and a keg full of beer, just about anything is possible."
roflmao
Sounds almost the way Linux was created! | |
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| The VMS Kid 2002-04-17, 2:02 pm |
| Bored programmers can cause all sorts of problems. | |
| jrdeal 2002-04-22, 7:10 pm |
| Good job on the test. |
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