LPI exams - Ubuntu Certification

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 15:43 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> > http://www.linux-praxis.de/lpisim/
> 
> This is depressing. This is the site I was using. This is where I
> found
> the broken questions that are the subject of this email.

Oh.

What can I say? I always got a reasonable selection of questions every
time I used that site.

Perhaps I can side step the whole issue, and offer this observation of
mine:

People who know their way around Linux well and are familiar with the
various tools on all of the Objectives, tend to pass the exam with a
good score. The idea is not to catch one out with silly questions, but
to test a representative selection of concepts and tools. Everyone has a
few questions where they look at the screen and think "WTF is this? I
never heard of such a thing...", but these things don't cause you to
fail the exam as a whole. You only need to score 500+ on a weighted
scale of 200-800 so you don't need to be perfect, just familiar with the
routine normal stuff that an admin is expected to know. 

And I won't be giving anything away if I tell you the Objectives that
trip people up on the first exam - Topics 101 and 110. Read the
objectives carefully and realise what is outside the scope of the exam.
For example, Gnome does not feature at all on LPI101, but xinit, startx,
~/.xinitrc, xhost and xauth does.

Gnome does feature heavily on Ubuntu 199 though

alan