guru in progress

After CCNA certification i decided to move forward and perhaps leave cisco as it is. I don’t know why i choice cisco. Cisco is company that i don’t like it’s policy but I’ll leave that topic to another post!

And again, after CCNA i decided to have some Linux certification. After reading and asking people there are 2 main certifications for Linux. LPI and Red Hats certifications. There is few more like Suse or CompTIA Linux+ but they are not so popular as RHCE or LPI.

RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) certification is most popular certification for linux out there (at least for Israel). The population of RH probably comes from very good linux distribution (even if closed). RH is usually installed for server and if you’re looking for linux career you’ll probably need get used for it’s RPM package manager and to get it’s certification. In Israel if you want to get a course of RHCE you can do it in John Bryce school for 17.5K NIS  or $5193 (current course). If you know any more courses in Israel that teach you RHCE please contact me. The course is 6 months long and i would like to find another opinions about this course.
You can find example questions here (registration needed).

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LPIC on another hand, don’t depend on any distribution out there. You will find questions from all kind of package manager - debians: apt-get; red hat: rpm; suse: Yast…
But main material is same as RHCE. People say that LPIC-2 is hard  as RHCE except that LPI ask more questions for another distributions. I guess that what makes it harder/better.
Another interesting thing with LPIC is non-profit organization.
Examples for LPIC-1 question you can find here. In Israel you can find LPIC-2 course in hi-tech collage for 15k NIS ($4451)

Conclusion: It’s interesting that RHCE teachers keep telling me that RHCE is best for me, and on controvery, LPIC teachers says same for LPI. In my opinion if you don’t have linux experience on-hands then RHCE will help you with finding new job easier then LPIC. Cause LPIC is simply not so popular as RHCE. Most of linux servers that i met in companies was RPM based. But if you already have regular job and you simply want to learn more about linux then my suggestion is LPIC. Cause it’s more material to learn and much cheaper then RHCE and more challenging. But that’s only my humble opinion.