I haven’t been blogging much lately, so I haven’t tapped out some of the stuff I’ve been up to. One of those things was to sit two (cheap) Linux Professional Institute exams in the middle of last month. Net Resources through in Edinburgh were getting themselves organised to be the first LPI certification exam provider in Scotland, and in doing so were offering cheap exams — £15 as opposed to ~£100. LPI did something similar at the LUDEx last month.
The exams, LPI 101 and 102, were paper-based — I was told of a four-to-six week wait for my results, which was a shock after sitting the computer-based exams for my Microsoft certification where you are told the result as soon as you click ‘Finish’ — and they both took me about half an hour to rattle through. Quite a few ScotLUG types had a bash too, but when we met up later that night at the Paisley Beer Festival and compared notes, we found out how evil some of the questions were :)
A few weeks trundle by, and all of a sudden I got my results through by email from LPI — I passed both 101 and 102 without much room to spare, but it was two passes nonetheless. That earns me an LPIC1 Junior Level Administration certification — it sounds a bit of a letdown considering I’ve been doing sysadmin duties on Linux boxen for almost 10 years now!
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