[SATLUG] Wish me luck!

[Mark Dwayne McCoy]

Geoff wrote:

>On 8/4/05, Mark D. McCoy <mark at mccoyfam.net> wrote:
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>>I'm taking the RHCE exam tomorrow.  I'll let ya'll know how it turns out!!
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>How'd it turn out, Mark?
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Can't talk specifics, because of the NDA you have to sign before you 
take the test.

I'm still waiting on the results.  It takes up to three business days to 
get the email with my score.

As far as "how do I think I did?", I am positive that I passed all of 
the RHCT-level tasks, and I am fairly sure that I passed enough of the 
RHCE-level tasks.  Some of the tasks threw me for a loop, and by the 
time I left the exam my brain was mush.  Next time I take it (hopefully 
in two years when I re-certify on the current version), I will have an 
idea of what is expected.  A couple of the tasks exercised things that I 
wouldn't have thought of on my own, but I managed to pull them out of my 
@$$!

BTW, the Michael Jang book really helped, but there are minor (but VERY 
important) differences between RHEL3 (which the book covers), RHEL4 
(which the exam covers), and CentOS4 (which I used to study).  I caught 
one of the differences the night before the exam, and I'm glad I did!  I 
recommend that anyone wishing to take the exam use the Jang book and an 
actual RHEL4 CD to work with.  The differences between 3 and 4 will be 
obvious, and you won't have many problems figuring out how to work 
around the differences.  The exam prep guide off of the redhat web site 
is also very important.  Print that out and test yourself on every step 
(even the ones you are "sure" that you know).

Since I had to pay for the exam myself in order to get a nice bullet on 
my resume, I really hope that I passed!!