Re: Red Hat and LPI Exam

[Robert Citek <rwcitek@alum.calberkeley.org>]

On Thursday, Dec 2, 2004, at 11:00 US/Central, Daniel S wrote:
> My question is: has anyone taken the RH exams or the
> LPI exams and could ethicly comment on them?

Don't know anything about the LPI.  Kara would know much more about 
that.  However, I did take the RHCE course and exam at RH HQs many 
IT-years ago when only RHCE was offered.

> I don't want the awnsers just a quick overview of the testing
> procedure?

Answers wouldn't help anyways.  I took the course + exam.  Both were 
intense but rewarding.

The course: four days.  Almost everyone in the course knew way more 
than I did, which was great.  The material was covered in lightning 
speed.  Lecture material was broken up by hands-on practicals and 
plenty of time for Q & A.  Because of the rapid pace, I spent most of 
the evening going over the material on my laptop back in the hotel room 
with a couple of the other attendees.

The exam: one entire day.  Three parts: one written and two hands-on.  
The written stuff is standard multiple choice-type questions that are 
probably covered in the books.  I don't recall the hands-on parts too 
much.  IIRC, the first hands-on part was to pick three out of five 
problem types and solve them; something like "it don't work" and you 
need to figure out what is wrong and fix it.  The second hands-on part 
was installation, I think.  They gave the spec: a machine with these 
partitions, quotas, these services, these users, yada, yada, yada, and 
you built it.

Keep in mind, things may have changed since I took it.

> what kind've enviroment was the test taken in?

< 12 people, one machine per person.  Lunch provided.

> Also are they really worth taking?

Yes.  At least for me and my employer because I learned a lot.  Would I 
take it again?  In a heart beat, but next time I would bring along lots 
of business cards and get everyone's name and e-mail in order to keep 
in touch.

HTH and good luck.

Regards,
- Robert
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