Suggestions for LPI certification study guides

Over the past 3 months I wrote and pbutted both the LPI101 and 102 exams. I had only one years Linux experience as a home user, am not a sys-prog, geek, nor a computer scientist. If I can do it anyone can!

I just thought I would share the study guide material I used for both exams. They are listed below in what I think are relative order of importance. I also make some comments about each. I am hoping this little expose might help other candidates.

1) LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell (O'Reilly, 1991). Although dated and missing quite a number of new required topics this still is probably the best place to start.

are free and a wonderful resource. As of Dec31-04 he had not yet fully completed the LPI102 Guide, but it is almost there.

3) The GNU lpi-manuals are very succinct but useful. Get them from ftp:--ftp.gnu.org-savannah-files-lpi-manuals

4) The Linux man pages. Yes, believe it or not I highly recommend them. In fact, I think you will have a difficult time pbutting the exam unless you have a lot of previous experience or you read the man pages for every command and config file. Ok, so there are a lot of rarely used switches. I know that, but the explanation of what the command does and how it operates cannot be surpbutted anywhere.

The IBM Linux LPI tutorials at not particularly useful. They gloss over most topics, are very dated, and omit many new LPI objectives. All the material within them is covered in the first three sources listed above.

In summary, you certainly do not need to spend hundreds of dollars taking a course to pbutt the LPI exams. The only outlay you have is to buy the O'Reilly book (or beg, borrow or steal it). You can do it easily at your own leisure studying at home with the above resources, as long as you have good study habits and you practice each command and look at every config file on a properly configured Linux computer.

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