[Wolves] Re: Wolves Digest, Vol 83, Issue 8

[Peter Cannon]

On Monday 25 April 2005 21:10, roundyz wrote:

> > LPIC
>
> How much does that cost? Certification is expensive I hear.....

If you go down the Red Hat path its about £1500.00 they're a bit strict in 
respect of you need to attend the course first which is 5 days residential.

Personally I think thats outrageously over priced for the most basic of 
certificates even my alter ego Dick Turpin wouldn't charge that ;-)

The LPI is much cheaper in respect you can just take the exam. 
Prices vary, Dave Goodwin and I had a chat about it I think he paid £20.00 at 
one of the Expo's. The general prices I've seen are around £50.00 you can of 
course do a weeks course then take the exam the prices are around £1200.00 
there are a couple of places in Birmingham offering courses and test.

As Dave pointed out the problem is Red Hat is more hands-on so some employers 
may prefer that type of accreditation to the LPI which is purely question and 
answer however the LPI is general Linux based whereas Red Hat is, well, Red 
Hat only. so its a toss up, with LPI you should in theory be able to work on 
any Linux OS while with Red Hat your only RH qualified. I know that in the 
real world most people can work on most if not all distributions but on paper 
(supposedly) your qualified to work on one (RH) or most (LPI).

Because I'm a very fair salesman I'm very poor so I'm trying to do it on the 
cheap I have to say its a bit of an eye opener as I learnt very fast I didn't 
know as much as I thought I did.

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Regards,
Peter Cannon.
peter at cannon-linux.co.uk
Fedora Core 3 & Suse Pro 9.2

"There is every excuse for not knowing
there is no excuse for not asking"
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