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Passed the ole' Linux+
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| Well this test wasn't too bad. I felt pretty confident while I was taking the test, but I actually didn't pass by that much. Oh well, a pass is a pass. The exam cram book is excellant. The author does a great job of explaining everything. The transcenders were right on as usual. I also did cert21. It was OK, but not near as good as the transcenders. Good luck to all of you. | |
| cross36 2002-03-24, 12:20 pm |
| A pass is a pass. Congradulations to you | |
| PotatoHead 2002-03-24, 1:37 pm |
| Congratulations on the pass!! | |
| The VMS Kid 2002-03-25, 1:06 pm |
| I passed it this morning as well. Used Rod Smith's guide and thought that it was great. Basically an easy test, but too much focus on hardware IMNSHO. | |
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| Where's Rod Smith's guide at? | |
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| Correct me if I'm wrong, but that page looked like nothing more than a bunch of links to buy books. I was looking for free study guides for my classes. | |
| Supertech 2002-03-26, 8:58 pm |
| Between Cramsession, Examnotes and a few choice others, you ought to be covered. Shoot for quality not quantity.
Take the exam objectives and have your students do research w/ their favorite search engine. Let them find new and wonderful sites. In other words, make it a research project and let them do the work. They might learn something in the process.
Don't you get deskcopies from publishers? All you have to do is ask.
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| The VMS Kid 2002-03-27, 6:31 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by tj
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that page looked like nothing more than a bunch of links to buy books. I was looking for free study guides for my classes.
Rod Smith is a writer. You have to buy his books to read his study guides. | |
| hemingri 2002-03-27, 7:39 pm |
| Congratulations.
I am preparing for Linux+ now. I have the Sybex Study Guide, Red Hat Unleashed, and Exam Cram LP1 Guide. I have taught Unix a few times but I find the Sybex book contains a lot of information that I have never had any use for. The Red Hat book is excellent but very large and probably contains much more than the test requires. Same for Exam Cram LP1; I find it contains a lot of information but very little about System Administration. Any guidance as to what is the best study guide? I just updated from Red Hat 6.1 to Red Hat 7.1 and have used Red Hat 6.0 and Mandrake 7.0. I have a copy of Caldera but haven't installed it. The version of Red Hat I now have includes X-Windows which I have never really gotten into. I guess I prefer not to use GUI in Linux. | |
| The VMS Kid 2002-03-28, 6:57 am |
| To learn Linux, I used "Special Edition using Linux" and "Running Linux", but for the test I used Rod Smith's "Linux+ Study Guide" from Sybex. Lots of information in it may be practically useless, but he is right on the money as for as the test goes. I made an 800/900 btw. Also, brush up on your hardware. That makes up about a quarter of the exam, and it is sort of what you might find on the A+ Core or Server+ exams. All books that I have seen have inadequate coverage of that area. | |
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| The Linux+ exam cram book is excellant. You should be able to get it on bookpool.com for about $25. If you feel like dropping the money the transcenders are right on too. cert21 was OK, but not near as good as the transcenders. | |
| hemingri 2002-03-28, 9:18 am |
| Thanks
I have the Sybex book but haven't started any of the practice exam yet. I'll look for the Special Edition using Linux. Thanks for the advice on hardware. I still have A+ core books. |
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