> On Friday 14 May 2004 10:28 pm, you wrote:
> > If it's anything like Cisco, the prep books are riddled with
mistakes, but
> > the test was very accurate. Poor proofreading by non-geeks, I
imagine.
> Gack. I took a Cisco class. The Cisco - provided texts were
occaisionally a
> little obtuse, but I don't recall any overt errors of fact. I feel
like I am
> doing this guys proofreading for him (and should be compensated
accordingly).
>
> Does anyone have an alternate RHCE prep text they would care to
recommend?
>
> Bill
The Cisco test is notorious (IMHO) for curveball questions. You will
find
choices where two seem "equally" likely but only one works. There
may be a "show interface" command that has a subtle mistake
intentionally
there. Watch out for negations ("which is not the correct whatever to do
this")
I think the Cisco Press books are good but you have to know the material
well. A big part of the tests is to apply what you know to solve the
problem they
give you. This is to discourage the rote memorization of material
scenario.
In Cisco you should know subnetting cold, and be able to do the
simulations.
Hands-on with the eqpt/software is very important.
There was a question on another test "what would be the protocol used to
upload a configuration change to a remote device" (BOOTP - SNMP - TFTP -
ICMP) I can see where either SNMP (do a SET) or TFTP (send a new
config to a router) would work. I chose SNMP but don't know which was
the
desired answer. You get very generalized feedback on these tests.
Another question on the test was about password expiration in Solaris
Unix,
two answers were "chage" and "passwd". You would think "chage" was a
slam-dunk, but in fact the _book_ says "instead of chage, Solaris
admins must
use the passwd command to set these values for existing accounts".
I never did a RHCE so I don't know but I have found it useful to get
several
different books on the subject you are working on, by different
publishers,
as each will offer something the others don't. You can synthesize
everything.
The idea is to learn the material, not just some answers. And yes this
makes it
more difficult.
Go to all the bookstores B&N/Borders for a start. Each store will have
about
60 - 75% of all that is out there. Go to several of each. Find books
that talk to you,
and get them. If Cisco, you can get 2500-series units on eBay for
$100+. Try
to get units with 12.x IOS, there are some out there with 10.3 still.
You can
get 12.2 enterprise on a 16dram/16flash for $175. Two of them and a
crossover
serial cable and you can learn all the interior routing protocols
hands-on.
You also need two ethernet transceivers, maybe $10 each.
Bob Foxworth
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