Comments on: Going to do the BSDA Certification http://www.linuxgeek.ca/wordpress/?p=221 Long Live the Penguin and Beastie Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:43:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: Carl T. http://www.linuxgeek.ca/wordpress/?p=221&cpage=1#comment-10827 Carl T. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:56:38 +0000 http://www.linuxgeek.ca/wordpress/?p=221#comment-10827 The BSDWiki is a great online help. The first time I took the test (yeah, I failed it once), there wasn't a lot there, but since then it's been beefed up quite a bit. I was using FreeBSD at the time I was studying, but I had an old Dell tower that I used alternately to practice OpenBSD and NetBSD stuff. It helped doing that, because I didn't know much about those distros at the time. Since then I've gotten to quite like OpenBSD. Unless things have changed, the exam is geared toward sysadmins. X isn't even tested. So even if you can't get X going perfectly (I'm yet to get NetBSD and X to love each other), it's not a problem. You can study everything you need to from the console. Good luck, and thanks for supporting the BSDA. Carl T. The BSDWiki is a great online help. The first time I took the test (yeah, I failed it once), there wasn’t a lot there, but since then it’s been beefed up quite a bit.

I was using FreeBSD at the time I was studying, but I had an old Dell tower that I used alternately to practice OpenBSD and NetBSD stuff. It helped doing that, because I didn’t know much about those distros at the time. Since then I’ve gotten to quite like OpenBSD.

Unless things have changed, the exam is geared toward sysadmins. X isn’t even tested. So even if you can’t get X going perfectly (I’m yet to get NetBSD and X to love each other), it’s not a problem. You can study everything you need to from the console.

Good luck, and thanks for supporting the BSDA.

Carl T.

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