CLP 10 advice please

Hello all,

I just went through the 3071, 3072, and 3073 courses and am a bit overwhelmed. 
Intimidated is a better word.  While I think the curriculum is the BEST linux
stuff I have ever seen, the test has just got me paranoid.

I am looking for a little advice about the test.  Scripting is my severe weak
link.  I have my LPI level 1 and have been running two SUSE linux server for
about a year now.  Honestly, I set them up and have not done much with them
since.  No need to!  Aside from patching, not much really needs to be done with
them.

I wanted to take the test after my classes, however, I was intimidated by the
study stuff at the end of 3073.  If you want to ask me questions in the
traditional sense of test taking, this test would have been a breeze for me.  I
know my commands, how to use them, when to use them.  I struggle and freeze up
when someone says, "Write a script that does......."  In the real
world, I just go online and look to see who created the wheel, and copy it. :) 
In the test, I hear that the real world, although someone simulated, really
doesn't exist.

So, I am just looking for some input.  I continue to study 3-4 hours per day on
the virtual servers, trying to rework the exercises for real life situations.

May I also add that the scripting chapter example really stinks!  Who would ever
do this in real life to their mail spooler?

Another thing, as I was going through the books, for being the first run, they
are fairly accurate.  However, I did find a good share of mistakes and typo's. 
I have gone through every page in both the textbooks and workbooks.

Any advice?

Tom

Hi Tom

Practical exam are testing your real ability, much in the same way as 
the Red Hat Certified Engineer test , but the CLP should be a little 
easier than that. the nice thing is you have a cert that is really worth 
something so I would suggest that plenty of practice is going to be very 
helpful.

The exam is based on a VNC connection so playing with the network 
configuration is an unlikely scenario. As would be XEN as the amojnt of 
resource that it would require. I cannot say, nor can anyone, what will 
or won't be tested on.

Again my suggestion would be any scripting scenario would be quite 
simple and not complex. The CLE exam could test you far more vigorously 
on scripting, these are only my thoughts though.

I would practice with vi and know the shortcuts. Using VNC can be slow 
on the network so reducing keystrokes is important

^ goes to the start of a line
$ goes to the end of a line
G goes to the end of a file
:1 goes to the start of the file

You can use yast and some tasks will be quicker in yast.

Practice , practice, practice. Especially subjects you are less familiar 
with work through those exercises again.

Hope this helps
-- 
Andrew Mallett [CNI SysOp]

Thank you Andrew,

It is good to see others who have made it through.

I spend 2-4 hours per day, at night, just going through the course materials.  I
have just about memorized everything in the books, however, I still have a hard
time putting it together.  It took me several tries and about 30 minutes to put
together my favorite script.

egrep -v -e '^[spacefollowedbyatab]*#' -e '^$' /filename 

This takes out all the comment lines and the empty lines in a file.  VERY
helpful for those silly config files that are more REM statements than actual
content.  Is this about as hard as scripting gets?  I have nightmares about 3073
and the scripting chapter.

Thank you.

Tom


>>> Andrew Mallett<andrew@andrewmallett.com> 3/6/2007 1:23 PM
>>>
Hi Tom

Practical exam are testing your real ability, much in the same way as 
the Red Hat Certified Engineer test , but the CLP should be a little 
easier than that. the nice thing is you have a cert that is really worth 
something so I would suggest that plenty of practice is going to be very 
helpful.

The exam is based on a VNC connection so playing with the network 
configuration is an unlikely scenario. As would be XEN as the amojnt of 
resource that it would require. I cannot say, nor can anyone, what will 
or won't be tested on.

Again my suggestion would be any scripting scenario would be quite 
simple and not complex. The CLE exam could test you far more vigorously 
on scripting, these are only my thoughts though.

I would practice with vi and know the shortcuts. Using VNC can be slow 
on the network so reducing keystrokes is important

^ goes to the start of a line
$ goes to the end of a line
G goes to the end of a file
:1 goes to the start of the file

You can use yast and some tasks will be quicker in yast.

Practice , practice, practice. Especially subjects you are less familiar 
with work through those exercises again.

Hope this helps
-- 
Andrew Mallett [CNI SysOp]
CLE, CLE9, CLE10, CLP, CNI, LPI Level 2, Linux+

I sat through 3 CLP9 tests.  No 10 yet.....

I don't think the tests will bwe that different, but your mileage may
vary.

Only one of the tests I saw had scripting.  It was not all that
difficult, and the MAN pages were MORE than enough to get all the
command options.

I had not seen Linux for years, sat through the CLP9 bootcamp and
almost passed it the last day.  Don't be too affraid, sounds like you
are almost ready for the CLE10......

-- 
Timothy Leerhoff

Thanks for the vote of confidence.  I am going to take it at Brainshare.  :)

Tom


>>> Timothy Leerhoff<tleerhoffNO@SPAMqwest.net> 3/8/2007 1:16 PM
>>>
I sat through 3 CLP9 tests.  No 10 yet.....

I don't think the tests will bwe that different, but your mileage may
vary.

Only one of the tests I saw had scripting.  It was not all that
difficult, and the MAN pages were MORE than enough to get all the
command options.

I had not seen Linux for years, sat through the CLP9 bootcamp and
almost passed it the last day.  Don't be too affraid, sounds like you
are almost ready for the CLE10......

-- 
Timothy Leerhoff
Novell Support Forum Sysop