[RHCE] FW: LPI CErtification Agenda....or not?

[David B. Rankin]

Rock, et. al.,

I've been poking around the net looking for a LPIC study group to join 
and decided to see if we could get one started here. I talked to Jason 
from TriLUG and he suggested I post to the list. So here we are.

Anyway, I looked at http://lists.freegeek.org/listinfo/lpi-study and 
http://209.61.182.150/certification.htm for information and ideas.  I am 
currently studying using Exam Cram 2 LPIC I, ISBN 0-7897-3127-4, 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0789731274/103-4140624-9499859?v=glance

There are other choices as well http://www.lpi.org/en/books.html.  I 
have the O'Reilly and Dean books but they are both old and the test 
objectives have changed since their printing. As you can see, I've been 
thinking about this for awhile!

I was thinking that we could brainstorm on how to attack this problem on 
two fronts; (1) Brick and Mortar study groups where people meet in 
person and do stuff and/or (2) Virtual study groups where people meet in 
cyberspace using collaboration software and do stuff.

Personally, I work full time and am taking two grad school classes this 
semester so my time is tight but I do want to make time to get this cert.

Comments?

Rock Roskam wrote:
>  Bounced for some reason.
> 
> 
> Rock
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Holton [mailto:sholton at nortel.com] 
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 9:15 AM
> To: Red Hat Certified Engineer exam study group
> Subject: LPI CErtification Agenda....or not?
> 
> Greeting all.  Welcome back to a few of you...
> 
> In past study groups, (focused on thew RHCE) one of the first tasks seems to have been to grab a copy of the Red Hat study guide from someplace like this:
>     https://www.redhat.com/training/rhce/examprep.html
> break is down into digestible parts and set an agenda to cover each on a weekly basis. Volunteers would creata a presentation and share their knowledge. We usually select the current distro and a recent book as a study guide to go with it.
> 
> We'll have to adapt that pattern for LPI. There's a list of LPI-targeted books at:
>    https://www.lpi.org/en/books.html
> but I haven't found a 'study guide' on-line. Any one have a link?
> 
> But what I was really wondering is if the agenda-based classroom style "hit every topic once and only once' is really appropriate for this material. Would we be better served by ongoing study covering a range of topics from the simple (how to put a .img onto a floppy disk) to the rather advanced (deploying enterprise- wide SAN filesystems using only stone knives and bearskins...), repeatedly visiting topics as demand dictates?
> 
> Can we brainstorm other ideas?
> 

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