On Friday January 21 2005 00:55, Marc M wrote: > Hey Chadley, > > If you don't mind a couple of questions, general ones of course not to > get too specific about the test as I would never want to do that. > > I have been preparing for this for a while now, but I am scared of > wasting a lot of money and not being ready despite several years' > experience working with Red Hat starting with v.7. Been through a > zillion network based installs, lots of LUG activity, lots of > tinkering on my own as well as on the job etc. Went through one of > the prep books - both the old one as well as the updated one for > RHEL3. I'm sure that these are good resources, but nothing can replace actual field experience. Remember the test is now all practical no written test. > > 1. How does one gauge whether one is up to speed, as far as time > goes? IOW, there are problems many people can solve, but solve in a > super-quick manner is another story. That kind of thing is tough to > measure, but critical for an exam, especially a costly one. Once again, not allowed to say much as an RHCE but how many odd situations have you solved easily? > > 2. How many permanently set up boxes do most people use to prepare? > Obviously more than just one but would two work ? THat has been a big > holdback for me due to cost; ideally I would like to have quite a few. Take one box and reinstall and reconfigure it as much as you need to. That's what I did for practice. Before taking the class and the test. > > 3. Would it be worth it to wait for RHEL4 to come out and take the > course and exam then? Since the majority of things are found within > Fedora that aspect doesn't seem to make much differrence, but maybe I > am overlooking something? > Yes, wait for RHEL 4 you will be certified (if you pass) until RHEL 6 comes out. Unless something changes.
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