[ale] RH cert training recommendations?

[Andrew Wade]

I studied for and passed the RHCE test last October on the first try.  I
found that I used two resources the prepare myself for the test:

1)  The RH300 Class from Red Hat which I took at GCA Center off of GA-400 .
  This is the training provider in Atlanta if you register for the class
through redhat.com.   This class covers what's on the test and they give
you the RH 300 book which has practice labs and answers for each section.

2)  Video Tutorials:  CBT Nuggets and RHCT And RHCE - Video Tutorials
(which were posted on Youtube).   I liked these video tutorials since I
could passively watch them in my free time as a break from  hitting the
RH300 text too hard.

Keep in mind that my measure for being ready for the test was that I could
do any lab in the RH300 without any need to look things up or second
thought of how to approach the problem.    During the test, time is your
biggest hurdle; you can look at man pages or the deployment guide all day,
but for the test you have a finite amount of time.


Also, keep in mind that you can negotiate credits with RedHat during
license renewal time.   If you have a large environment and step up to be
the guy/girl that crunches the numbers, you can throw training credits into
that renewal pot!

That's how I got most of my training..hehe

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Dylan Northrup <ale at doc-x.net> wrote:

> If you know where to look in the man pages for specific pieces of
> information, you'll have time to do so.  If you need to read through the
> installed documentation under /usr/share/doc/<application> you likely won't
> have time to complete the test successfully.
>
> As a smart man once told me, the test is as much about time management as
> it is about knowing the material.  Part of time management is knowing where
> to look for command syntax if you don't know it by heart.
>
> During my test, I did reference man pages because I've already got too
> much useless knowledge inside my brain.  It was more important to me to be
> able to know where to get the esoteric/specific info than it was for me to
> have it committed to memory.  If you don't know which command-line
> *options* to use in test scenarios, using man pages is not that big a deal,
> timewise. If you don't know which *command* to use for test scenarios,
> using man pages to find them will take far too long.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> -
> Dylan
> RHCE 100-004-662
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Scott McBrien <smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think there is time to use documentation to figure things out if you
>> have to.  There is not enough time to do that for the majority of test
>> items though.
>>
>> -Scott
>>
>> On Apr 9, 2012, at 2:45 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On 04/09/2012 11:18 AM, Chesser.Damon wrote:
>> >> Read the test objectives and run labs around them.  You NEED to be
>> able to do
>> >> the objectives without referencing the man pages.  In other words, you
>> need to
>> >> know the stuff forwards and backwards.  It is not enough to know how,
>> you have
>> >> to know how quickly.
>> >
>> >
>> > Would the Anki training method work well for this memorization?  That
>> assumes
>> > you already know the stuff using man pages and hands on stuff.  Are
>> there anki
>> > training decks available like there are for LPIC-1, 2, 3?
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