LPI braindumps

This is a rant. You have been warned.

It's kinda disappointing to see a few posts of so called brain dumps, some of which could possibly be leaked questions. We worked hard to get low cost exams. I don't believe there have been any incidences of people cheating or taking mobile phone snaps, but if you did and posting them please take them off.  It would be sad to have exams only in CCTV controlled rooms, or outright banned from Malaysia.

As a trainer and advocate of learning essential Linux skills, I strongly advise people not to do brain dumps or study from questions. Study from the objectives and master them. It will  prepare you to do the tasks you need in your real working life.  It is enough to pass the exams this way, and this from a FreeBSD user, who doesn't even administer Linux on a day to day basis. Being able to memorize and answer questions won't help anything, being able to solve the problems given in the objectives will be what you need to do in real life.

If getting certification is your only goal, and you don't really care enough about learning Linux to be a good system administrator, I suggest that you instead opt for some other field of work or chase some other meaningless certification from which you can simply pass by studying braindumps. Don't destroy the good name of LPIC holders and professional Linux administrators in this country by demeaning it into a braindump, memorize and pass certification.

Time and time again, I see that the objectives/skills you're expected to learn for LPIC-1 are essential skills you will need to use, not only as a Linux administrator but also for administrating other Unix like systems such as FreeBSD and Solaris. They're also essential for developers working on Linux/Unix. It frustrates me, when people who pass these objectives and skills as useless find themselves helpless to do the most basic of sysadmin tasks, because they do not understand their systems only step by step guides which they follow blindly.

There are tools and applicances for end users to provide basic server services, and I recommend these for small intranets and office use. You don't need to be a system administrator to set up internet sharing/firewall, printer and file sharing for this. There is nothing wrong with it for end users and it works well and it is the correct solution.

If however you want  a career as a professional system administrator, and setting up the above such system is all you think you would know and ever want to learn, then you're setting up yourself for the next round of layoffs.