LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell

One of the better reference books out there is the "LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell"by Jeffrey Dean. The book is broken into two parts to match up with each test. At the end of each section is a test which can be used to judge how well prepared you are for the actual test. The first section is broken into 5 sections as follows: Gnu and Unix Commands; Devices, Linux Filesystems, and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard; Boot, Initialization, Shutdown, and Runlevels; Documentation; and Administrative Tasks.
The second half of the book is broken into 9 sections: Hardware and Architecture; Linux Instalation and Package Management; Kernel; Text-Editing, Processing, and Printing; Shells, Scripting, Programming, and Compiling; X; Network Fundamentals;Network Services; and Security.

Anyone going for certification through the LPI should spend some time going through this book even if it's borrowed from the Library mostly because after you have your certification most certification books sit on a far back shelf.

LPI - General Linux 1 (LPI101) - Exam Emulation

2 Sites which have proven invaluable to my preparation for the LPI exams have been LPI - General Linux 1 (LPI101) - Exam Emulation, and the LPI1 - Test.

The first site gives a good simulation of what the real exam should be. One of the downsides to this test is that you will never see which questions you got right or wrong, so you are dependent on the test administrator to ensure that the questions are correct.
The second test is also located at this site here.

The LPI-Test site gives 10 tests with results from a variety of different sites incling the first site discussed. The easiest way I've found to move from one site to the other is to go into the url and change the test #. An example would be to http://www.ph-home.de/linux-test/lpi-1/lpi.php?SelFile=linux03.test&ViewMethod=multi take the 03 in the above URL and change it to a different number from 01 to 10.

One thing I have noticed is that a small numbre of questions are wrong, but those are definitly the exceptions and not the rule.

Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)

Master level courses build advanced Linux skills for new Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) Certification

The five courses comprising the RHCA curriculum include:


-- RHS333, comprehensive network services security training
-- RH401, a course in software deployment and systems management for large organizations, including use of Red Hat Network (RHN) managed services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
-- RH423, training on directory services and authentication, a security solution critical for central management of servers and workstations
-- RH436, a course on enterprise storage management and GFS, new technologies from Red Hat
-- RH442, a course on performance tuning and system monitoring

*** Update *****
Here is Network World's article on the New Red Hat Certifications.

IBM Developer Works

IBM has a site with some good info on Linux along with an area which is devoted to specifically preparing for the LPI cert tests. This has been one of the areas which I have worked with to help prepare myself for my LPI test which I'll hopefully be taking next week.