Total Page : 768
Publisher : McGraw Hill Osborne Media
Publication Date : 2004 03 30
>> Helped my pass my RHCT
Highly recommend as a study aid I have always worked with Linux distros at home but my job recently required more from me in the area of Red Hat Enterprise Linux support I attended the RH 133 week long class While attending the class I was also reading this book It gave me a different angle to the material that the instructor covered and really think that it helped give me the extra push to get my RHCT I would not say that this book alone would have caused me to pass the exam but it really helped augment the instructor based class It is also been a great reference guide in going forward in my new duties with managing RHEL systems around the office
>> Excellent book a bit out of date
I used this book to study for my RHCE Exam in December of 2009 From what I have heard from this book and my personal experience it is THE book to use for studying for the RHCE exam besides the material provided in the 300 course The labs in the book were quite good but I found that I had to do some extra steps to get my system to a point where I could execute the lab well Figuring out how to get my system to that point were very good learning experiences but they made me skim through labs since I didn t want to bother with the setup It would have been very nice if they provided a pre configured vm image of a similar release like CentOS that was preconfigured so that when you hit a lab you had all of the necessary pieces or at least build on the pieces from the previous labs
NOTE I mentioned in my title that the book is a bit out of date From studying book I thought that I would have to configure a RHEL system from scratch do an install pick package groups pick partition sizes etc Red Hat eliminated the installation portion of the exam in 2008 or 2009 The exam is now only a 3 5 hour session consisting of RHCT troubleshooting and RHCE system configuration
>> Best practices and growing your career
I think everyone should be required to take pass the RHCE if you would in a
Enterprise environment or in a smaller company Understanding the fundamentals of
an Operating System to the complexity of services that can survive the public
Internet or Internal network is key to success
I learned a lot from digging in and I know when I set up servers for work they
are correct and done by the book not by some search off the Internet or by some
forum where people do things by the seat of the pants
This to me was an awesome achievement and milestone I knew after going through
all of the self sacrifice it allowed me to except new challenges
