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LX-101: There are numerous things missing from this book for LX-101 that are explicitly stated in the LX-101 objectives as a term, command, or file you should know about. You’ll also find things on the exam that were never mentioned at all, but not many. For LX-101 you can pass with this book. Also a many of the options shown for commands are just wrong – so if you try to study/memorize the presented options instead of using the man pages or command –help, you might be SOL. Here’s an example; there are two common modification commands for groups; groupmod and gpasswd – the author only introduces groupmod, not gpasswd, and he takes options that ONLY gpasswd does and throws them under groupmod. Not knowing gpasswd won’t screw you but if you have enough options mixed up because you didn’t check the man pages - that might screw you.

LX-102: Without external resources or prior experience, you will very likely not pass this exam. LX-102 has a lot of fill in the blank questions so you can’t guess something you’ve never seen before on a fill in the blank. This book is wholly inadequate for LX-102.

MasterExams included with book: These exams are horrible. As soon as you start an exam you can see the questions are much too easy and aren’t a real gauge for knowledge. Also, the exam questions are worded like they were plucked right out the book which is also useless; a good practice exam needs to take different approaches on questions so that you know you really know something. I except a lot out of questions provided by these study guides especially since, for Linux+, practice tests are really lacking across the Internet. Just because you found one, don’t believe that it is helpful. Just about every one of them floating around is for the OLD Linux+ test or the old LPIC-1 test. Yes this is LPIC-1 Linux+ but they are not the same test at all and the LPIC-1 test that came before LPIC-1/Linux+ was much harder and includes a ton of stuff you don’t need to know.

If you are comfortable with Linux already this book will probably help you pass LX-101 fine but not LX-102. If you’re new to Linux and have no familiarity with the commands then this book probably isn’t sufficient for either test.
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