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| Jim_UK 2002-05-25, 1:18 am |
| Has anybody taking the Linux+ exam, any feed back would be great with regards the exam..
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| ceck out the Linux/Unix forum alot off useful staff about the Linux+ there | |
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| just starting to do Linux myself so these forums will be a great help
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| The VMS Kid 2002-05-27, 2:57 pm |
| I 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. | |
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All multiple choice, single-answer questions.
..are you saing that the exam has no multiple answers ?? | |
| The VMS Kid 2002-05-30, 3:28 pm |
| The exam that I took had all multiple-choice questions, but in each case, you could choose only one correct answer. There were no "Select the two options that are true" kind of stuff. | |
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Originally posted by The VMS Kid
The exam that I took had all multiple-choice questions, but in each case, you could choose only one correct answer. There were no "Select the two options that are true" kind of stuff.
ok thanks for the update | |
| The VMS Kid 2002-05-30, 3:42 pm |
| No prob. |
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