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Wimnat

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This may have come up before but is it me or has the search function disappeared from this site?

Anyways, i was just wondering if anyone had done their LPI or similar, where they did it, how much it cost, was it worth it, did it make a difference when it came to getting a job etc.

Just general feedback please!

Thanks.
 
I did the CompTIA Linux+ last month, cost about £160. Its vendor neutral so valid for most distributions. I was looking at the LPI but i think its a fair bit harder and a lot more in depth.
 
I've been wanting to the LPI for a while too. Unfortunately, my current job (only a 3 month contract, thankfully) doesn't pay enough for me to save up enough for the course. :confused:

Oh well, maybe next year.
 
Cake said:
I've been wanting to the LPI for a while too. Unfortunately, my current job (only a 3 month contract, thankfully) doesn't pay enough for me to save up enough for the course. :confused:

Oh well, maybe next year.
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Have you seen places that offer it? All google offers be is "intensive 2 week courses" which cost 3 grand!
 
Wimnat said:
Have you seen places that offer it? All google offers be is "intensive 2 week courses" which cost 3 grand!
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A group of us did the level 1 LPI certification in a 1 week intensive course at work ... it really wasn't too difficult, (i think that only of the dozen of us on the course only one failed one of the exams ... admitedly we are all commercial Unix administrators).

Some of the intesive courses are expensive as they are residential
 
Forgive me if this is stupid question...

Is the LPI the same as the LAMP certification?

A previous company that I was working for was paying me a trainees wage for being responsible for 75% of the servers and all 120 odd desktops... they were putting me in for the courses but not the exams... had they put me in for the exams I'd now have.... MCSE, CCNA, CCA, MCAVE (Mcafee Certified Anti Viral Engineer), DCE (Dell Certified Engineer), LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP)... alas that was like 4 years ago... wouldn't mind doing them again and getting the cirts too, but alas it'd probably mean doing all the courses again since the ones I did are now out of date and thats going to cost me £15,000 or more and several years... :(
 
yoda said:
Forgive me if this is stupid question...

Is the LPI the same as the LAMP certification?

A previous company that I was working for was paying me a trainees wage for being responsible for 75% of the servers and all 120 odd desktops... they were putting me in for the courses but not the exams... had they put me in for the exams I'd now have.... MCSE, CCNA, CCA, MCAVE (Mcafee Certified Anti Viral Engineer), DCE (Dell Certified Engineer), LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP)... alas that was like 4 years ago... wouldn't mind doing them again and getting the cirts too, but alas it'd probably mean doing all the courses again since the ones I did are now out of date and thats going to cost me £15,000 or more and several years... :(
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No, I don't think that they are the same. I don't remember the exam covering MySQL or PHP at all and if it covered Apache then its really only basic stuff. LPI is a vendor neutral certification from LPI http://www.lpi.org/
whereas LAMP is normally a term used to describe a platform and I haven't seen a certification for it.
 
I've seen RH LAMP certifications... but i'm not exactly RH Linux person... I build my Linux servers from scratch including the 'hardened' ones...

Oh well, keep looking...
 
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Anybody got any new info on this subject?

I'm thinking of doing LPI level 1. The course costs three grand though, so I'm probably gonna just buy a cram guide and just pay for the exam.
There's quite a lot of books to choose from though.
Can anyone recommend a good one?
This is what amazon has to offer.
I'm thinking probably not one of the german ones.
Mein Deutsch ist nicht dass gut.
 
I've been trying to pick stuff up by reading the LPI books, and despite having been a unix sysadmin at an ISP, I struggle with the books. The impression they give me is that you need to remember all the arguments to all the commands they raise, which is utterly preposterous. It's just not anything like the real world where you have man pages and help arguments to get the commands. I know what the commands do and which commands I'd use for what purpose and so on, but memorising all the nitty gritty flags? I don't know anyone that knows them all off by heart.

Anyone here that has done them, is this just a bad impression I've had from the books?
 
DeeJay-Mo said:
/epicbump

Anybody got any new info on this subject?

I'm thinking of doing LPI level 1. The course costs three grand though, so I'm probably gonna just buy a cram guide and just pay for the exam.
There's quite a lot of books to choose from though.
Can anyone recommend a good one?
This is what amazon has to offer.
I'm thinking probably not one of the german ones.
Mein Deutsch ist nicht dass gut.
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When we did the course we were given Exam Cram2 LPIC 1 books, (the middle red one on that page?). Found it a lot better than the Nutshell book which I also looked at with exam prep questions at the end of each chapter. It was also more of a "book" than the Nutshell one which seemed at times to be more just information on lots of commands.

Garp said:
I've been trying to pick stuff up by reading the LPI books, and despite having been a unix sysadmin at an ISP, I struggle with the books. The impression they give me is that you need to remember all the arguments to all the commands they raise, which is utterly preposterous. It's just not anything like the real world where you have man pages and help arguments to get the commands. I know what the commands do and which commands I'd use for what purpose and so on, but memorising all the nitty gritty flags? I don't know anyone that knows them all off by heart.

Anyone here that has done them, is this just a bad impression I've had from the books?
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You need to know the common options to quite a few commands but nowhere near all of them. The exam was multiple choice so you can normally figure it out with a bit of common sense assuming you know some Linux. The Nutshell book in particular I found to be more a list of commands and their options whilst the Exam Cram book actually gave you explanations on things as well.

I have really poor memory but had no trouble with remembering what was needed.
 
memyselfandi said:
You need to know the common options to quite a few commands but nowhere near all of them. The exam was multiple choice so you can normally figure it out with a bit of common sense assuming you know some Linux. The Nutshell book in particular I found to be more a list of commands and their options whilst the Exam Cram book actually gave you explanations on things as well.

I have really poor memory but had no trouble with remembering what was needed.
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Cool. I've got the exam cram ones myself, they're well written, I was just baulking at the possibility of unrealistically remembering all the rubbish.
I've just renewed my CCNA for another 3 years (that was hard, I'm not a network guy, have no real interest in it, and the spec has changed a bit in 3 years) so I think LPI might be my next target.
 
memyselfandi said:
When we did the course we were given Exam Cram2 LPIC 1 books, (the middle red one on that page?). Found it a lot better than the Nutshell book which I also looked at with exam prep questions at the end of each chapter. It was also more of a "book" than the Nutshell one which seemed at times to be more just information on lots of commands.
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Thanks for the recommendation, I will try that book for size.
 
spec me a Linux+ book

I heard whispers that the LPI is changing at the moment.
I'm not going to do the certification until I know what's going on with it.
Anyone heard anything about this?
In the mean time CompTIA Linux+ seems like something worth doing to pass the time.
These are the books available on Amazon: linky
(hope that's allowed, please remove if it's not okay - book retailer - not really competition to OCUK IMO)

Anyone know if any of those books are decent?
 
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