LPIC-1 Study Guide
I always find it somewhat humorous that the best vendor-neutral Linux certification is so broad in scope that it can’t really be called an entry-level certification. To become LPIC-1-certified, you must pass two exams from the Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Those exams not only exhaust your knowledge of command-line options, but also expect you to know hardware, the kernel, security and a plethora of other topics.
Given that breadth, it’s not uncommon for books about these exams to be meaningful to anyone working with Linux — not just those cramming for an exam. The best of those books, by far, is the “LPIC-1 Linux Professional Institute Certification Study Guide” by Roderick W. Smith. Certified by LPI as one of its “Approved Training Materials,” the book is both thorough and engaging. Instead of just walking through the objectives from start to finish, the chapters build on each other and the material is covered in a much more logical manner.
If you’re looking for a good overall Linux book to fill in your coverage of general topics, you can’t go wrong by picking this one.
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