The WhiteHack Blog

I have previously mentioned that the RHCE exam (RH302) is quite expensive, but I managed to get a rather nice discount, bringing the total cost down to £400 (instead of £598).

Sorry, but I am not going to tell you how I managed this, but suffice it to say there were a number of emails between me and the nice people at RedHat, and much discussion with my wife, who paid for the exam as a joint birthday/xmas present. Yes, I know I am a geek!

So with 54 days remaining I am using the excellent RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide (Exam RH302) (Certification Press)Michael Jang book (soon to switch to the Red Hat® Certified Technician & Engineer (RHCT and RHCE) Training Guide and Administrator’s ReferenceAsher Ghori book when I unwrap it at the weekend), several VMWare Server guest RedHat builds (one server for the NFS install, and several to break and build). The only shame about the Ghori book is that there is no pdf to download anywhere (good for him though, and it’s nice to have the physical book to read, instead of staring at a computer screen).

I would also recommend the Foundations of CentOS Linux: Enterprise Linux On the Cheap (Books for Professionals by Professionals)CentOS book (and getting the discs if you cant get hold of the RedHat ones), its a very well written book, and considering it covers such a wide number of topics, it’s surprisingly indepth!

Another invaluable resource is the Deployment guide freely available on the RedHat site.

But it’s proper practice that’s the key with this exam. It’s a true test of ability, so practice is imperitive.

So apart from living and breathing RedHat, I have had more articles published, one for the ITJobBoard on Cross Examination, and another for RedmondMag on ActiveBatch 7. I am quite liking this writing lark.

Merry xmas all.