[PLUG] Re: Linux Certifications

[Kevin Karwaski]

William,

Thanks for the info... good to know! Will freegeek be administering
the LPI Level 2 exams? I did actually attain LPI level 1 in 8/2005 and
was just giving my opinion/experience with it.

I'm looking forward to seeing how difficult Level 2 is...

Cheers,
-Kevin

On 3/6/06, William Reid Leake <william.leake at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 11:18 -0800, William Reid Leake wrote:
> > Kevin,
> >
> > I passed both of the LPI level one tests at Free Geek.  They are
> > providing them at a discounted rate of $40/exam (instead of $100).
> > Regarding vendor neutral exams, this is what I have gathered:
> >
> > Comptia's Linux+ is the easiest, and is said to represent six months of
> > on the job training as a Linux SysAdmin.
> >
> > LPIC-1 is more difficult than Linux+ and represents 12-18 months of
> > experience.  That is based on talk on the LPI mailing lists. There
> > currently are ~28,000 LPIC-1s in the world.
> >
> > LPIC-2 is significantly more difficult than LPIC-1, and represents 24-36
> > months experience - again garnered from the LPI mailing lists.  There
> > are currently ~4,800 LPIC-2's.
> >
> > If you shoot for the LPIC-1 exam, here is another good site to find some
> > training information.
> >
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > W. Reid Leake
>
>
>
> Oops, and here is the link I mentioned:
> http://telly.org/free-training
>
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Kevin Karwaski
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