Towards the exam

13Dec07

As you may be aware, I’m learning to take a Red Hat Certified Technician exam. I’m a fairly knowledgeable geek, yet there’s a lot of material for this exam that I’m learning for the very first time. The really difficult bit in the exam, it seems to me, is the hour where they put you in front of a seriously messed up system and tell you to fix everything (without reinstalling). Ordinarily, I’d rely on Google to help me fix difficult problems (for example, typing in an error message and reading discussions on internet forums). However, no internet access is allowed in the exam. Put it this way, there are no multiple guess choice questions: you either fix the problem or you don’t. I understand the pass mark is 100%.

That said, it does make the qualification a worthwhile one. I have two months to study for it, and I’m already learning quite a lot.

I took a trip to the library the older day and picked up three books: Running Linux (O’Reilly) because I liked the look of its chapter on filesystems; Linux Shells by Example (Prentice Hall) for its sections on Sed and Awk, which I’m keen to get to grips with; and, most importantly, Red Hat Certified Technician Linux Study Guide (McGraw-Hill/Osborne).

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