LPIC Certification

Modeler · 2011-12-21 08:49:45

Hi all,

Earlier in the year my company announced that they're adopting Linux (specifically SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) as their standard Unix platform. I've been a Solaris guy for most of my professional life, but I had passed the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam on RHEL 5 and more recently Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) on RHEL 6.

I was wondering if it was worth going for the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) certification as well:

http://www.lpi.org/

I'm not sure how LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 compare to RHCSA and RHCE respectively. Has anyone done any of these? Not sure how many people here do Linux as their job, but I would imagine there's quite a few. Any input would be appreciated.

Thanks.

pseudonomous · 2012-01-04 20:37:15

I did the LPIC-1 certification, but it's my only technical certification so I don't actually have any sort of reference to compare it to. It may have been useful in picking up one of my part-time sysadmin jobs, but it's hard for me to tell, I think there may simply not have been any other applicants. I learned very little studying for my certification, memorization seemed, at least to me, to be the most effective way to study for the exam, since many questions are multiple choice focused on picking the right options to pass to a command to do something, or selecting the proper block file name associated with some type of device. It was not a particularly hard exam. My motivation in taking it (as opposed to the Red Hat exams) was that it was relatively inexpensive.

You know, if you haven't already done so, you might want to ask around on the CentOS forums, I would imagine you'd find a lot more Red Hat certified people over there, and perhaps some of them would also have done LPIC.

Modeler · 2012-01-26 15:18:50

pseudonomous wrote:

I learned very little studying for my certification, memorization seemed, at least to me, to be the most effective way to study for the exam, since many questions are multiple choice focused on picking the right options to pass to a command to do something, or selecting the proper block file name associated with some type of device.

Thanks pseudonomous, that's pretty much what I was expecting. I think I'll buy the LPIC-1 book and sit the first two exams; should be really basic stuff compared to RHCE. That'll give me an idea of what LPIC-2 will be like and I'll take it from there.

byte · 2012-01-26 16:18:38

I have both (LPIC-1+2), but I'm not sure how to describe it.
Technically, I always opted to participate during conferences like FrOSCon, so I don't know how the computer tests work, only the pen-and-paper ones, but it shouldn't be very different.
It's mostly multiple choice, plus a few text fields for path names or commands.
I have no experience with other certifications, but it's quite cheap, yes.
You get/need ;-) a good basic overview of general Linux concepts, multiple distributions, popular daemons ... and unfortunately you also have to memorize obscure commands and their parameters.

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#1 2011-12-21 08:49:45

LPIC Certification

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