LPIC 3 or RHCE?

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I'm completing my LPIC2 at the end of this month.

Since there's no RHCE date (need to upgrade my RHCSA) in CPT until next year I was contemplating doing my LPIC3.

Is it worth it or should I rather just spend the time concentrating on waxing the RHCE?

My personal opinion is that the RH certs are far more valuable and far more taxing. I'd pick an RH candidate over an LPI one any day of the week, but maybe that's just my perception?

Thoughts?
 
RH certs are the gold standard really, you know if someone passes them that they have a pretty good idea what they are doing.
 
I would stick to RH as well.

Largely because I feel the LPI exams are an abomination that doesn't really test your skills but rather your ability to memorize stuff.

RH is much more real world in my book.

I also find most companies have never even heard of LPI. when I do interviews I always gets questioned about what that is.

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LPI's sales pitch that it's multi-distribution is nice and all but really doesn't matter at the end of the day.

Unless you are running some outsource Linux support shop you are going to deal with the same distribution daily.
 
Thanks guys.

I figured as much.
I'll start gearing up for RHCE (the date availaibility in CPT is shocking through - probably need to fly to JHB which is $$$)

I'll still keep the LPI certs valid though, as i'm 2/3rds of the way done anyhow. No point in letting them lapse so far in.
 
Stick to RH as it's what you would get the most recognition from in industry.
 
Just passed my LPIC2.

Onwards to RHCE now.

Unfortunately there don't seem to be any dates for CPT until next year, which is a real pain...

Here's to hoping RH can ship us some exam kiosks sometime soon - so we don't need to be at the mercy of the exam vendors like Torque and CTU.
 
RHCE is about the same level as LPIC-2. So once you got LPIC-2 its a breeze to get RHCE. LPIC-3 is a much higher level certification. There is no scientific evidence to support the view that RedHat exams are tougher than LPIC exams. This is just part of the fanboy propaganda.

If you want a real hands-on certificate I suggest looking at the Linux Foundation exams - vendor neutral testing which is what businesses are looking for in the cloud world we live in.
 
SauRoNZA said:
I would stick to RH as well.

Largely because I feel the LPI exams are an abomination that doesn't really test your skills but rather your ability to memorize stuff.

RH is much more real world in my book.

I also find most companies have never even heard of LPI. when I do interviews I always gets questioned about what that is.

****

LPI's sales pitch that it's multi-distribution is nice and all but really doesn't matter at the end of the day.

Unless you are running some outsource Linux support shop you are going to deal with the same distribution daily.
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This is my finding on lpi, I finally decided to bite the bullet after working on Linux for years and get certs. So far the lpi seems to be like school, it's not testing my Linux knowledge but my memory.
Especially since what does knowing class B networking, or cidr actually have to do with Linux.
When I did the RHCSA it was awesome to do a prac that actually tested my knowledge, even though it took the full time to do, it worked the knowledge nicely.
 
So I wrote my 102 on Friday, I unfortunately failed, feel really awful about it. But I've honestly never setup a print server in 7 years of working with Linux, a good portion of the test was relating to that, also I don't know the xorg configuration like the back of my hand so that also didn't go that well, the rest of the test I averaged out at 72% just those two brought me down to 57% :-(.
I do get the feeling they need to look at doing practical tests, as even the 101 exam didn't feel like it was testing my knowledge, it was just how much I could remember from the book and some mock exams. I also couldn't find decent mock exams of 102 to get a feel of what they'd ask.
 
Lupus said:
So I wrote my 102 on Friday, I unfortunately failed, feel really awful about it. But I've honestly never setup a print server in 7 years of working with Linux, a good portion of the test was relating to that, also I don't know the xorg configuration like the back of my hand so that also didn't go that well, the rest of the test I averaged out at 72% just those two brought me down to 57% :-(.
I do get the feeling they need to look at doing practical tests, as even the 101 exam didn't feel like it was testing my knowledge, it was just how much I could remember from the book and some mock exams. I also couldn't find decent mock exams of 102 to get a feel of what they'd ask.
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That's 100% my problem with LPI. It's parrot learning.

I hold SLES / RH / LPI Linux certs and I by far prefer RH's way of testing. They give you a terminal and tell you to complete a set of tasks. Don't know the EXACT switch - no problem check the man pages.

Whereas if you don't know the exact command during an LPIC exam you fail.
 
jsheed_sa said:
That's 100% my problem with LPI. It's parrot learning.

I hold SLES / RH / LPI Linux certs and I by far prefer RH's way of testing. They give you a terminal and tell you to complete a set of tasks. Don't know the EXACT switch - no problem check the man pages.

Whereas if you don't know the exact command during an LPIC exam you fail.
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Yup I have the RHCSA so far, will be working on CE, I can now see why my buddy told me not to bother with the lpi, he holds most certs as well but said the lpi is pretty silly and if I went for the CE it is more about what should be tested.
Also I loved the RHCSA test :) but I love troubleshooting, think I'll chat to manager and maybe forgo doing the lpi102 again and start rhce next year :)
 
Lupus said:
Yup I have the RHCSA so far, will be working on CE, I can now see why my buddy told me not to bother with the lpi, he holds most certs as well but said the lpi is pretty silly and if I went for the CE it is more about what should be tested.
Also I loved the RHCSA test :) but I love troubleshooting, think I'll chat to manager and maybe forgo doing the lpi102 again and start rhce next year :)
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I'm doing my RHCE next year.

I've included a link for the dates for CPT / JHB / PTA if you need them. If you're in CPT and want to do some sort of study group i'd probably be able to do that too.

http://wikisend.com/download/955386/Schedules.zip
 
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