This iswhat I plan to do to be honest:
"If however you sit down and say I need to fully understand syllabus requirement X and do so by recreating the problem in VMs and play around till it makes sense and study all the documentation etc then it will make the cert significantly more valuable to you (as valuable as real world experience, but not for CV purposes). "
I have looked through the sylabus for LPIC 1 and 2, and to be honest it is bang on what the other guys in my department are doing and chatting about.
However, I cant chip in much because my practical knowledge is limited, to only the things I have picked up to do my job.
For instance, recently they changed the proxy server to squid. Now obviously I had next to no idea what squid was etc...... I still dont really.... but I saw in the LPIC 2 they cover squid.
This is just an example, I get it certs are generally meaning less, if you dont have the experience to back it up.
However if I pass my LPIC 1, it would help me understand a bit more, and if I was to ever pass the LPIC 2, I could say to my boss, look this is what I have done could you maybe pass to me or involve me in some of the linux projects your doing even though I have never done it before....
I mean, how does one get a break here?
I do not want to pay £3000 for class tuition for a six day course!! Thats ridiculous. I will do it all from home.
But honestly am I being realistic thinking I can do this from home?
I do agree with the whole certs before experience thing, however I have been in my job (Systems Administrator) for 3.5 years now.
The servers are all unix 2-3 windows servers and about 150 windows clients (winxp - 95%, Win7 - 3%, and Mac 2%)
I know a little on how to do the administrative side of things, but know nothing about the architetural side and maintainance of the servers them selfs.
