Novell Certified Linux Professional Study Guide

This official Novell Press Study Guide is your key to reviewing the fundamentals of installing, running, and administering SUSE LINUX so that you can pass Novell Practicum: 050-069, Novell's Certified Linux Professional exam, and become a Novell CLP. Expert trainer and curriculum developer Emmett Dulaney brings you the practical knowledge, tested techniques, real-world scenarios, and hands-on lab exercises you need to help you get the CLP certification from Novell.

Customer Reviews:

Watch out!

By Jens Forsgren - June 27, 2005

(Note this, I'm under NDA, so I can't go into details about what the CLP practicum exam exercises are like in more depth and detail.)

Hi! Today I did the CLP practicum. I had used this book for preparation. Not long ago I passed RHCE, Red Hat Certified Engineer exam, so following this book was a breeze. All the Lab Exercises felt easy, aswell as doing the two included practicums. I felt practicum exam 050-069 would be no problem. WRONG! Where should I start, exam 050-069 doesn't exist. CLP certification is gained throug something called Practicum v.2 exam# 050-689. This is an all different beast than anything this book prepares you for. For most of the exercises you only get maybe 10% coverage in the book. The book covers something with one page, but the dept of knowledge to solve the real problem might need 10 pages. In the information here at Amazon, they say this book covers exam 050-069, that doesn't exist. On the back of my book it says it covers exam 050-689. I would... read more

Read This And Fail

By Jez - January 23, 2006

The book is not badly written and the content is fine as a reference material to many Linux systems for a beginner. Where this book flops is in supplying the information required to pass the CLP exam.

I read this book, with a fair few years of networking experience, and even some Unix experience way back. I found it to be informative on the main but it did waffle on about things that were not important. Much of the first third of the book seemed to be padding, having said this, with strange sections being passed over as if not important.

Bottom line. This will not prepare you for the CLP exam. At best after reading it and studying hard you will be setup for a good chance of failure. The problems:

1. Concentrates too much on command line activity. Not saying you don't need to know Shell `stuff', but not to the level this book puts forward.

2. Not enough about YaST. That's where you'll do 60 - 80 percent of the exam.

3. Way... read more

Lots of breadth; no depth; don't bother with this book.

By E. Lawrence "mauthedog" - February 24, 2006

While lots of topics are included that could be on the CLP practicum, they are by no means covered in the depth that is required to pass this difficult test.

The practicum is not a written test; it is a simulation.

You can't cram for it; you won't pass by simply knowing general facts. You must know how to perform several tasks quickly.

If this book presented the topics in a format that said 'here is what you must know', and then presented a recommended series of steps to use on the simulation, then I might be able to recommend this book.

Instead, it says here are lots of things you should know about.

That's not enough.

If you buy this book you will generally know what you will be tested on, but you will definitely not know enough about those things to pass the practicum. You will certainly need to go out and buy several books to learn the subjects in-depth.

Therefore, I cannot recommend this book.

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