I am wanting to take the RHCE exam. Can anyone recommend any good books or webpages to study for this exam? Also could I use fedora to study for the exam or will I need to try to purchase a version of the Red Hat Enterprise or something like that?
Thanks,
-- Jonathan Carpenter
I am studying for it doing installs and troubleshooting on my own. You don't need the Enterprise copy of RHEL itself, Fedora is fine. I noticed on the site the other day that the exam is 'now updated for RHEL 4', so that's good to hear.
I recommend the Michael Jang book, forgot the title but it has like a greek statue on the cover. Be careful and make sure he wrote it; there is an identical Syngress one written by two others I think. I like his book better, it's full of a lot of good exercises.
I am finding that the RHCE is a pretty big chunk to try to bite off and take one test over at once. I have a lot of resources at my disposal, and even though I know a lot about a lot of topics, I am finding my progression to be much slower than I would've liked. I am the kinda guy that likes to really nail the topic so I have a very high level of assurance that I am o.k. for the exam.
I am wondering if it is a better test-taking strategy to try the lower level certifications first before attempting RHCE. In my case it's not so much a question of experience, it's more a question of not wanting to gamble exam fee of $750.
If anyone else has any other angles on this it would be great to hear. Has anyone used redhat's online training to fill in gaps and/or prepare for the certifications? Curious to know how that went.
Marc
On 2/20/06, Jonathan Carpenter jonathan.carpenter@gmail.com wrote:
I am wanting to take the RHCE exam. Can anyone recommend any good books or webpages to study for this exam? Also could I use fedora to study for the exam or will I need to try to purchase a version of the Red Hat Enterprise or something like that?
Thanks,
-- Jonathan Carpenter
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Marc M wrote:
I am wondering if it is a better test-taking strategy to try the lower level certifications first before attempting RHCE. In my case it's not so much a question of experience, it's more a question of not wanting to gamble exam fee of $750.
If anyone else has any other angles on this it would be great to hear. Has anyone used redhat's online training to fill in gaps and/or prepare for the certifications? Curious to know how that went.
I took a four-day RH300 course with RHAT with the exam on the fifth day. The course was really quite good, I learnt some things I didn't know I didn't know and some that I knew I didn't know. You have to sign a "First Rule of RHCE Club" type thing, so there is little info out there and I won't add much to it. Before the course and the exam I read how 'brutal' the exam is (which scared me to death), and while that was true it correctly represented the kind of situations you really have to tackle if you are responsible for boxes other people are using. In the end I was glad of all the prep and fear even though most of it was needless.
The way it was set up when I took it you can still get an RHCT if you scored under what is needed for an RHCE. And in any event you get the Most Expensive Teeshirt In Your Wardrobe.
Good advice if you can't burn the money on a course is to review a year of this ml, taking an interest in the people in the worst trouble. Run Fedora or CentOS daily and don't be afraid to get into and out of scrapes.
-Andy