Reddit reviews LPIC-1: Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide

While a great deal of the replies you will receive will be along the lines of 'install this' I would recommend something else.

Sure choose a distro and install it but I'd suggest you do that first as VM under Virtual Box..

Then go to Edx: Introduction to Linux and learn about the OS and why things are the way they are. It's a basic intro and one I would recommend to all beginners.

If you are considering dual booting backup all your data and save a copy of your Windows registry. Just in case it all goes wrong.

You may also find a copy of this very useful -> LPIC-1

I bought this one. I ended up taking my Linux+ in Jan. This helped a bit. It's yours if you want to pay shipping? If so shoot me a PM.

LPIC-1: Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119021189/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_N5yqDbWJW21FK

Probably the new versions of the exam-prep books will be published in January or February.

I took the beta version of the new exam during October, and I'm pretty confident that I passed it.

Some of my preparation steps were:

(0) I had one of my PCs that already had Ubuntu 18.04 on it, on which I could practice some commands (I later put CentOS 7 on that PC instead). You can also get pre-built VMs from osboxes.org which you can run in VirtualBox. Or you could download an ISO, burn that to a DVD-R, create an empty VM, and practice the installation process.

(1) I learned many commands and their command-line options from "Linux Pocket Guide - Essential Commands, 3rd edition" by Daniel Barrett published by O'Reilly. I had heard that the current CompTIA Linux+ exams want you to know many command-line options and what they do.

(2) I learned topics for the current version of the exam from "LPIC-1 Study Guide, 4th ed." by Christine Bresnahan and Richard Blum, published by Sybex. See also my post where I evaluated books to prepare for the current version of the exam.

(3) I downloaded the PDF with the beta exam objectives

(4) For some topic areas that are on the new exam and not on the current exam, I read the chapters in this book by Sander Van Vugt about the Red Hat certification exams to get a basic understanding of those topics and learn the main commands for those topics. I liked that book; it has short chapters and is written in an easy style.

(5) For some things listed on the beta exam objectives, I also looked at the 'man' pages and read the Wikipedia articles about those things.

(6) I had previously passed the Network+ exam, and I think my understanding of networking helped with some of the questions on the beta exam.

(7) I registered for a free account at LinuxAcademy.com, and one of the courses available at the free level was named "Git Quick Start" (or something like that), which helped me prepare for the Git-related questions on the beta exam.

LPIC-1: Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119021189/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_2vYCCbWN85ZHX