I passed my first attempt at the RHCE on March 12 of this year on RHEL3. I thought it was fairly painless, but I noticed a lot of the old hand sysadmins did indeed have trouble because they did not pay attention. I read through the Osbourne RHCE book (from 2001) a couple of times as well as going through all of the RHCT and RHCE practice tests on redhat's site. Previous to the RHCE class, I had no formal *nix training outside of using Solaris and AIX boxes for about 6 years for school/work/play and admining various Linux machines around the intraweb starting sometime in 1997. I think it is important to be paranoid about what you _don't_ know, _pay attention_, and for Knuth's sake, stay off the intraweb (especially slashdot ,irc, and email) whilst you're in the class. Also, be honest with yourself about what you don't know, and try to compensate for that pre-exam. This guy in our class was bragging about being at CERN when the Morris worm hit, blah, blah, blah. He failed the test. So, even if you know AIX, Unicos, Solaris, HPUX, VMS, OS/400, and had a 386 on bitnet running Xenix in 1984, try to realize that even though the paradigm is the same, the syntax is different. Tony http://www.involution.com On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, duncan brown wrote: > > Christopher Chan said: > > > I did not take any Unix/Linux course prior to my RH300 course which is > > and was my only such course ever and I did not take any of the 'lower' > > ones. > > > > All I had prior to this was about two years of tinkering with Linux on > > my own and having to learn enough to teach it to complete linux newbies. > > (More like a sham you'd say) > > > > The RHCE courses are spread out across different levels and topics and > > so one should be able to digest what was presented before moving on to > > another one and finally the exam. > > > > A prerequisite of being very familiar with hardware and basic operating > > system concepts is all that is really necessary. > > i can't disagree, though i don't want to... heh. rhce is pretty easy as > long as you pay attention, take notes, and remember that the instructor is > telling you 90% of the test... i know several highly experienced ninja > sysadmins who had trouble because they didn't pay attention, thought they > were above the course. you don't pay attention and you don't learn the > x-window troubleshooting. > > and alot of it is intuitive troubleshooting, and having pretty solid > knowlege of the o/s before you go in. it's not for beginners. at least 2 > years of linux/unix knowlege is required before you go in. > > really, after taking the course i feel that all i really got was a $2,500 > book that lycos paid for. > > also, there are tons of lpi books out there, amazon has oreily's for 25 > bucks or so. > > -d > > -+(duncan brown > -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ - against microsoft attachments > > Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy > evidence of the fact. > -- George Eliot > > > > --
