LPIC-1: Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide: Exams 101 and 102

Like any other textbook, the material is fluffed up with excessive amout of explanation than you will need. Then again, that's coming from someone who's been using linux as the main OS for over a decade. Probably having more information is usually better than having not enough information. Besides, the book isn't terribly thick either.First five chapters cover the 101 portion of the exam. So you can concentrate on those materials for your first exam, then the rest of the book for your 102.At first I thought, "alright, this book seems good." Then I found the additional study tools in Appendix B (page 554). This extra stuff has helped me study so much more efficiently. It's a package of study tools that you can download from the link listed on the book, and the practice exams in it is an awesome tool. Well, it helped me.

This is one of three resources I used to prepare for certification. For me this was perhaps most useful of them all. It didn't delve too much into "how things used to be" so stayed on current material relevant to the test. It was clear about which distribution was being used in which examples so I could more easily follow along in my numerous virtual machines and when there was significant variation among distributions it said so, directed me to focus on understanding overall design, described overall design along with a bit of description of similarities and differences among distributions and didn't take me down a rabbit hole of understanding a particular implementation.

Even if you're not studying for the LPIC this book is an excellent basic reference. It walks a perfect line between too much detail and not enough. If you sit down at your terminal and play with all of the ideas mentioned, you will not only learn a lot of really cool and useful things, but you will learn a lot about your Linux distribution versus others. I used Slackware and OpenSUSE, which really allowed me to compare and contrast things in the book. Between this book, Google, Slackbook and man pages, you will learn enough for the LPIC (and a little extra).

This is a very good book. I thought the chapter on Networking was one the best, concise overviews of networking anywhere. This book gets to the point, gives detail and examples on Linux that anyone, new or not-so-new to Linux are looking for. It is like a documentation site one would read on a vendor web site, but with explanation and organization. I will buy other books from this author. I passed my LPIC 101 test and expect to soon pass my 102 test.

Pros:Excellent exam preparationTons of review questionsGoes over all of the objectivesCons:Quite a few spelling errorsThe practice exams are all multiple choice, where as the exam also has fill in the blanksOverall highly recommended. I was able to pass both exams after having only studied this.

I bought the book to expand my knowledge in linux, in conclusion I can say that is an excellent textbook. With reference to the objectives of the book, the text alone is not sufficient for the certification exam, it is a basic text. The study of the book must be completed with other advanced level books.

This book provides plenty of information (just in case you need a refresher). Also, it is well structured, it takes you from command line, learn how to partition your hard drive the right way, and finally installation, configuration and troubleshooting.This is a must!

If you are brand new to linux I would not start with this book. This is for passing the exam and just tells you how to pass the exam. If you want to understand linux and know linux I would choose a different book. WHat good is the linux + at your job if you don't understand why you are doing it. Buy the LPI essentials linux. You don't have to take the test but read the book and then go back to this book. Your understanding will be leaps and bounds better.