Preparing for the LFCS (Linux Foundation Certified SysAdmin)
Posted by Ryluv2surf@reddit | linuxadmin | View on Reddit | 1 comments
Wondering if anyone has taken it before, feels pretty straight forward except for some sections regarding signal handling. They provided a C file with POSIX stuff that's a bit alarming as it feels much higher difficulty compared to rest of exam prep.
If anyone has taken the LFCS recently (within \~3 years), any tips or insights would be greatly appreciated.
If anyone is currently studying for it and wants to perhaps study together via discord or something, DM lemme know
Cheers!
drcanabyss@reddit
Just took the exam today for the first time as a brand new learner from 0 experience in IT 66 Studied using the 4 free courses on Linux foundation and 4 practice tests on udemy for the LFCA 2025 test and the 2024 just in case.
Maybe 10% of what was on those practice tests were on the exam so don’t waste your money. Any practice test claiming they have questions from the current exam=scam because 0 of the questions were on the exam.
On top of that, I’ve been taking LFCS labs on Kodekloud and udemy, of which I’ve learned a lot more than anything provided for the LFCA exam.
What Linux provides for free definitely isn’t enough for what’s on the exam so it’s a big money grab for them to get more out of you if you’re just trying to get your certifications and move on.
You wanna learn more about this topic? (AKA give us money if you want to see what’s really gonna be tested on you) $99 on top of the beginning $250 for LFCA. Or on top of the $450 LFCS exam because…. They have the same studying materials? How is that? A more advanced test has the same recommendations to study for free, just to then set you up to fail the first time. Hopefully you get it on the second try because then that’s another fee to take it again.
Those of you looking to study for the LFCA, might as well start with LFCS, only because you’ll learn actual relevant stuff in order to navigate through a Linux server, rather than just knowing what IaaS means… because knowing that actual IT employees don’t give a fuck if you know what a monolithic Kernal is. They want to know if you can bounce a database or make sure it’s running properly.
Consider that $250 to spend wisely. To me, this was a waste of time and money when LFCS is more relavent to a work/production environment.