Nearly 5 years ago, I sat down on a Sunday morning in October, after the Ohio Linuxfest, to a pair of tests. These tests were the LPI 101 and LPI 102, the exams required to earn my LPI Level 1 certification. It’s the entry-level vendor-neutral Linux certificate.
Fast forward to today, and I will need to renew or expand my certification to keep it. While I have more than 10 years of Linux experience, I need to brush up on my low-level administration skills before I would feel confident taking the tests again.
While I work to refresh these skills, I thought I would share my experiences here.
The first step in my studies will be to work my way through the Linux From Scratch book. I’ll use it to learn the innards of a modern Linux system. I’ve run through it before, but it has been years since I worked with it; it could have been the turn of the century.
I’ll be spending the next few weeks and entries writing about that process, including any problems I have. After that, I thought I would look closely at the test objectives to determine my next course. I could go on to the BLFS book, the sequel to the original, or I could focus on some of the updated systems, such as Upstart.
What should be my next step for preparing for the tests, after I work through the Linux From Scratch book?