Juan Pablo Guereca Alonso said
The book is structured really good, the problem is that is outdated for the current LPI objectives. It would be nice an updated edition.
Yi C. Chang said
I purchased this book for preparing LPIC exams and then passed the exams. But I found out that from the official LPI website (www.lpi.org), it lists all the detailed objectives for the exams. Which are more updated than this book. Basically you only need to have one comprehensive Linux book and then follow all the objectives to prepare the exams. By doing that, it should be no problem to pass. By the way, LPI just upated its objectives which will be effective by April, 2009. So I expected new version of this book will come out very soon...
M. Hoes said
I have read and studied the material for exam 101 from this book so far, and I must say that I am not impressed. I also bought TestKings practice exams on the same topic in order to see how I scored, and I haven't even scored 60% right of all the answers! Some of the questions/topics in the Testking 101 exam were not even mentioned in this book. I must say that I am really disappointed with this book, especially since it is from O'Reilly which ordinarily produce excellent books.
C. McDermott said
Lets make this clear if you haven't memorized all man commands yet then you definately need to buy this book. I totally agree with other reviewers here that this book is an invaluable reference guide to any sysadmin working on the job.
I have found that this book has gotten me through LPI 101 and 102 exams. I did not get a high score though. On the exams itself you do need another reference.....The best one I have found is Past experience. The LPI is a great certification because the questions that they will ask you will come from left field. But you will need this book to pass it and it will make you a better sysadmin!
If you are a geek and can figure things out then grab this book, read it twice and Pass the LPI. I got my current job purely off LPI certification So my advice is get it!
Espen Hovind said
I have just finnished exams 101 (730 points/800) and 102 (740 points/800).
Theese seems to be quite good scores, according to the LPI website, and i owe it much to LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, 2nd edition.
The book is well written, with lots of relevant information if you want to pass the LPI level 1 exams. And even better, its a very nice book to use as reference in system administration tasks.
However, like someone has pointed out earlier. It doesn`t quite cover 100% of the exams. More like 85%, so if you want 700+ scores, i advice you to seek additinal literature on the web. There is plenty.
But this book is a great foundation and i am using it now on 201 and 202.
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