LPIC-1: Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide: Exams 101 and 102 3rd Edition

Like any other textbook, the material is fluffed up with excessive amout of explanation than you will need. Then again, that's coming from someone who's been using linux as the main OS for over a decade. Probably having more information is usually better than having not enough information. Besides, the book isn't terribly thick either.First five chapters cover the 101 portion of the exam. So you can concentrate on those materials for your first exam, then the rest of the book for your 102.At first I thought, "alright, this book seems good." Then I found the additional study tools in Appendix B (page 554). This extra stuff has helped me study so much more efficiently. It's a package of study tools that you can download from the link listed on the book, and the practice exams in it is an awesome tool. Well, it helped me.

This is one of three resources I used to prepare for certification. For me this was perhaps most useful of them all. It didn't delve too much into "how things used to be" so stayed on current material relevant to the test. It was clear about which distribution was being used in which examples so I could more easily follow along in my numerous virtual machines and when there was significant variation among distributions it said so, directed me to focus on understanding overall design, described overall design along with a bit of description of similarities and differences among distributions and didn't take me down a rabbit hole of understanding a particular implementation.

Even if you're not studying for the LPIC this book is an excellent basic reference. It walks a perfect line between too much detail and not enough. If you sit down at your terminal and play with all of the ideas mentioned, you will not only learn a lot of really cool and useful things, but you will learn a lot about your Linux distribution versus others. I used Slackware and OpenSUSE, which really allowed me to compare and contrast things in the book. Between this book, Google, Slackbook and man pages, you will learn enough for the LPIC (and a little extra).

If you are brand new to linux I would not start with this book. This is for passing the exam and just tells you how to pass the exam. If you want to understand linux and know linux I would choose a different book. WHat good is the linux + at your job if you don't understand why you are doing it. Buy the LPI essentials linux. You don't have to take the test but read the book and then go back to this book. Your understanding will be leaps and bounds better.

This is a very good book. I thought the chapter on Networking was one the best, concise overviews of networking anywhere. This book gets to the point, gives detail and examples on Linux that anyone, new or not-so-new to Linux are looking for. It is like a documentation site one would read on a vendor web site, but with explanation and organization. I will buy other books from this author. I passed my LPIC 101 test and expect to soon pass my 102 test.

I bought the book to expand my knowledge in linux, in conclusion I can say that is an excellent textbook. With reference to the objectives of the book, the text alone is not sufficient for the certification exam, it is a basic text. The study of the book must be completed with other advanced level books.

+ Chapters too long & varied - Package managers, library files, and top all in the same chapter! Topics run together.+ Not enough example command usage or important details - Some utilities have two pages dedicated to listing out every single flag they accept, even the less common ones. This is what man pages are for. Yet, important things such as what exactly the three load-average values represent, are omitted!+ Left to Google for more - As with the last example, vague descriptions of some things are given and you'll be left to set the book down and Google for the answer yourself. You'll be sure to remember it after that, but these are the kinds of things that should be included.

Pros:Excellent exam preparationTons of review questionsGoes over all of the objectivesCons:Quite a few spelling errorsThe practice exams are all multiple choice, where as the exam also has fill in the blanksOverall highly recommended. I was able to pass both exams after having only studied this.

Spotted that a new edition of the book was out, so thought I'd take a look, primarily out of curiosity as the 2nd Edition was rather dated and not entirely representative of the current LPI-1 syllabus. Then again if you find some old kit in a garage and get nostalgic for a mid 90's Linux install then the 2nd edition could still come in handy, as it briefly covers the joy's of ISA card installs, and getting your internet fix via a modem and PPP or [C]SLIP (oh for the days of feeding 50+ floppies into the front of a machine to get a working system). The 3rd edition substitutes the archaic hardware and protocol passages for a few on new fangled (naughties) technologies: [U]EFI, ext4fs, usb3, GRUB2 and the like, and alters the odd digit here and there e.g. "more than 30 years of Unix history" becomes: "more than 40 years of Unix history", other than that and a bit of chapter shuffling, the contents is largely unchanged. Essentially it provides a quick overview of the core Linux concepts, features, conventions and commands, along with a high level run through of some of the basic installation and administration tasks, just as the LPIC-1 exam objectives set out.Worth noting, this edition no-longer ships with a CD containing a PDF version of the book, additional reference material and a practise exam test engine. Instead your provided with a link to the Sybex site, which after registration will permit you to download a Zip containing a further 3 separate zip archives, for: Linux, Mac and Windows.Thought I would give the Mac archive a whirl; within it you get another archive (getting rather Russian doll like) but this time in Mac .sparseimage format, anyway in that you get what appear to be a set of Windows BAT and EXE files, a PDF with a copy of the Glossary, a number of Flash SWF files, and supposedly an application called Start, which won't run on OS X 10.8.2. Raised a ticket with their customer support and got back a single line response, and the ticket was marked as closed:> "The software for this title is not Mac compatible. I apologize for any inconvenience. To run the software you will need to use a PC."have queried this as the Front Cover of the book does state:"... and Access to Exam Prep Software Featuring: Linux-, Mac-, Windows-Compatible Custom Test Engines ..."Anyway, you can open the individual SWF files directly from a Browser of your choice, or alternatively unpack the linux variant of the archive and just use the provided HTML front end (assuming your browser has a Flash Plugin). Had a bit of a play with the practise exams, to see what I've forgotten in the 20 odd years of daily Linux hacking, and according to the marking system some of the basics, thought I'd double check, and found the exam engine can't count, apparently selecting the answer it acknowledges as correct in it's explanation will not necessarily get you the mark (see Customer Pic), so raised another ticket.Ignoring the test engine anomalies, and the removal of a bundled PDF for iPad / Kindle reference while maintaining the 2nd Editions Retail price. The slightly revised text should be enough to hint at what you will need to know to pass the LPI-1 exam, but you'll ideally want 6+ months daily hands on use, exposure to both a RedHat and Debian derived distribution, and have played and read the man pages for every command mentioned in the book, as the text only covers some of the most common features and arguments for the commands it covers, to be safe you should know the a few more e.g. The book mentions either of the following vi commands will save a file changes and quit vi: ZZ or :wq, but fails to mention any possibility not explicitly listed on the LPI.ORG site e.g. :x

Poco hay que decir, es la traducción al castellano de la cuarta edición del libro "LPIC-1 Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide: Exam 101-400 and Exam 102-400".Lo recomiendo totalmente para todas las personas interesadas en sacarse la certificación LPIC-1 y que tengan problemas para leer/comprender el inglés. Aunque en algunas ocasiones (pocas) la traducción no es fiel al original, es más que suficiente para la certificación.El libro está estructurado en 3 partes:- Parte I: Examen 101-400 (5 capítulos)- Parte II: Examen 102-400 (4 capítulos)- Parte III: ApéndicesAl final de cada capítulo hay unos test a modo de repaso del tema para poner a prueba tus conocimientos y lo aprendido hasta el momento.Recomiendo mirar el libro mientras tienes una ventana de terminal delante para ir probando cosillas.

Ma posso dire che il libro è fatto molto bene: nello spiegare i concetti più complicati non si perde e riesce sempre a focalizzare la tua attenzione e il ragionamento verso l'obbiettivo. A volte devi comunque andare su Internet per chiarirti le idee. I test inclusi sono utilissimi. Consigliato, decisamente consigliato (anche perchè non c'è molta scelta).

E' un libro conciso, pratico, essenziale. Easy per chi già conosce linux (non consigliato per chi non sa cosa sia una shell). E' ben strutturato e diviso in comodi e pratici capitoli ad-hoc :-)All'inizio di ogni capitolo vengono elencati gli argomenti, nel finale i test.Lo consiglio.

Ottimo libro, ben organizzato, chiaro e sufficinete per imparare.Varebbe la pena di tradurlo in italiano per fare concorrenza all'ottimo libro di Simone Piccardi, che però con un po' di fatica si riesce a recuperare gratuitamente quindi non so quanti lo comprerebbero.