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Website: https://www.lpi.org Price: about $250 per exam (2 exams), and about $70 for the book. Back in the sixties, that is issue numbers, not the hippie era, Richard Philip Witt started a few articles on LPI certification. At the time, I was not aware that the certification existed and decided to join him in getting LPI certified. I did not need the LPI certification, as I had attained my Sinix certification from Siemens back in the nineties (the year, not issue number), and was teaching Linux introductory courses after-hours for a local trainer, but it was a welcome refresher. (The LPI exam is aimed at corporates, but it will serve you well in other areas too.) Then, Richard did his vanishing act a couple of issues later, and I was like KC & the sunshine band - please don’t go! This month, I had hoped to revive the series and maybe inspire others to get LPI certified. Coincidentally, I was contacted by the Linux Professional Institute to say my LPI Certification was going to expire and I needed to write again. This would be fine and dandy, but with the local currency dwindling fast against the US Dollar, and a few other misfortunes, the writing of the certification is almost out of reach. With the high cost of writing the exam, I would like to assist budding exam takers in reaching their goal, even if I may not be able to afford it.
Site Web : https://www.lpi.org
Prix : environ 250 $ par examen (2 examens), et environ 70 $ pour le livre
Dans les numéros 60 et quelques du FCM, pas les années 60 des hippies, Richard Philip Witt a commencé quelques articles sur la certification LPI. À l'époque, je ne savais pas qu'il y avait quelque chose comme la certification et j'ai décidé de faire comme lui et devenir certifié LPI. Je n'avais pas besoin de la certification LPI, car j'avais obtenu une certification Sinix de Siemens au cours des années 90,et enseignais des cours de Linux de base après le travail pour un formateur local, mais c'était un cours de recyclage bienvenu. (L'examen LPI cible les entreprises, mais vous aidera pas mal dans d'autres domaines aussi.) Puis, Richard a mystérieusement disparu quelques numéros plus tard et je me sentais comme Jacques Brel - ne me quitte pas ! Ce mois-ci, j'avais espéré faire revivre la série et, peut-être, motiver d'autres d'obtenir la certification LPI. Par hasard, le Linux Professional Institute m'a contacté pour me dire que ma certification LPI allait expiré et que je devais repasser l'examen. Je l'aurais fait bien volontiers, mais, étant donné que la devise locale baisse de plus en plus contre la dollar US et quelques autres malheurs, repasser l'examen de certification est presque impossible. Puisque passer l'examen coûte cher, j'aimerais aider de nouveaux candidats à atteindre leur objectif, même si moi, je ne peux pas me le payer.
Let us take a look at what you will need to pass the exam: • The book. Yes, there is an official study guide. • A computer running Virtualbox so you can load operating systems to practice on. • A good tool is Anki - installed from the software centre. (Flashcards). • You also need to learn to read the questions without cruft, and identify the real question. (I am speaking from a previous exam perspective and the new exams are now out, so some things may have changed) There is also a website you will want to avoid, Andrew Mallet’s urbanpenguin.com. He pretends to give exam questions, but they are so far removed from the real exam, he may be living in his own little bubble. It also does not help that he now does video tutorials for training establishments and people stream to his website. The LPI website has practice exams that will prepare you much better for the type of exam question you will get. All that said, there is no substitute for experience. Do! Set up your own servers if you do not work with them on a daily basis.
The LPI website will give you insights into the exam, so do not fear the exam. Unlike Microsoft exams (again, things have changed since I wrote), there is no effort to mislead you (and waste your exam time) by telling you about how Contoso had gone bankrupt, and how they had to sell their kidneys for an exchange license, and you have to say brown cow twenty times before springing the ‘how many computing cores are needed to run exchange?’ on you. We will look at real exam questions from the past, and analyse them to help you understand the questions you are answering. If you know your work, the understanding of the question is all that lies in your path to success!
Richard Philip Witt covered LPI level one with you, and I will cover LPI level two. If there are any requests to cover LPI level one or Linux+ in my style, I will do that too. We definitely need more people LPI certified!
First things first.
You will need an account on the Person Vue website so you can find an exam location and book a time. You can register an account so long, and registration is free, and you do not need to book your exam now. A good tip is to take down the names of exam centres in your area and visit them. You do not want to show up and have to sit in a one-by-one meter glass room and die of claustrophobia. (Yes, I found one like that!). Some exam centres provide coffee and biscuits, some provide comfy chairs, and others provide nothing at all other than a plastic seat and a computer. Look at parking if you plan on driving there - is the area safe? Do your homework first. Just go about it gently! I went to an exam centre with a colleague, and when we asked to see the exam centre and walked closer, the woman thought we were about to rob them! - as the door to the exam centre was behind the counter and she became hysterical. You can, of course, buy a voucher on the LPI website too, but then you will miss out on the fun, wink-wink.
To start us off, let us look at the 201 exam in detail:
We have - capacity planning, the Kernel, System startup, File systems and Devices, Advanced storage, Networking and System Maintenance – that is not much. There are “weights” to sections, but my advice is to know everything about each one; that way, you cannot be blindsided by a question from a “low weight” section.
In our next issue, we will tackle the exam objectives one-by-one, and once we are done with all of them, we will work through old exam questions so you understand.
Resources:
https://www.lpi.org/how-to-get-certified/free-training-materials
Feel free to contact us with any queries, and, as always, you can find me on the FCM telegram group.