LPIC Linux Certification Level I - Exam 101…
…is scheduled at 10:30am tomorrow in the big city of Houston, which is about an hour’s drive. I have been doing exam cram the last day or two because I think I am going to FAIL!
Do you hear me, I said FAIL!
The Horror!
Anyway, I always freak out like that but I am feeling better now that I covered all the material in the exam 101 study guide front to back twice in the last two days or so and four times in the last two weeks. I will rise early in the morning, go over the highlighter’s notes, and pass that damn exam.
On my test Linux box here at TheGarage, I have installed, configured, and/or have running the following services, processes, and applications:
- Apache w/PHP -This was the first thing I installed, of course. It was a no brainer, I guess, cuz it was easy.
- Samba as a NT domain controller and logon server - I have been progressing with Samba a little by little, setting it up as a NT domain controller just about a couple of months ago. This has been a very worthwhile effort
- MySQL with phpMyAdmin panel - All of this shit really free? I know, I know it varies by license. But still.
- Nuke/BBS up and running but with no content yet and various PHP modules like Mamba and shopping cart addons installed and ready to be evaluated.
- cron jobs - oddly enough, no cron jobs came pre-configured with the Suse distro.
- syslogging of my routers to Linux - after the seeming DoS attacks on TheGarage the other day I lost some of the logs because the router’s memory could only handle so much data. The router allows sending the logs to a remote syslog server. Viola! problem solved.
They are going to get me on all those damn command options, I know it. I am a reference manual kind of guy and if I find myself typing a long command more than once, I’m creating an alias for it. The people who remember all that crap off the top of their head are sick!
Nah, it’ll be alright. I’ll get enough of them right to pass the exam.
Here are a couple of services I have attempted to set up, but have not been as successful:
- IBM Websphere
- Hylafax
Websphere is definitely still in my sights, especially since I will be travelling to Austin week after next for a week long course covering Servlet and JSP Development using Websphere Studio Application Developer 5.0. Thats a mouthful there, isnt it.
I am about a week behind my original schedule, but by mid-August, according to plan, I will have three brand-spanking new professional certifications:
- SCJP2 v1.4 (Java)
- LPIC Level I
- IBM Certified Solution Developer - Websphere blah blah blah…
Then I got to get a real job instead of this BS work from home on small projects crap–which I absolutely love doing, but my big screen TV is on its last leg. The big downside to which is the re-institution of the commute back to Houston, where the dollars always are at.
After that development occurs, I will probably stack another IBM certification–most likely DB2– to bump the overall IBM certification level to Certified Solution Analyst, or something like that.