Linux online-quizes

[Khyron320]

Im looking for some online quizzes to test my linux knowledge. My google searches arent getting me anything more than the basics.

Im looking for quizzes on advanced things such as grep, awk and so on.

Does anybody have a good resource other than a book. I want an online test a few of us can take on advanced subjects.

 

[ultimatebob]

I like the Red Hat pre-assessment tests for their certification courses. They're tough, and you're practically guaranteed to learn something after taking them.

 

[electroju]

Try install Gentoo with out GUI.

Being command line utility proficient is OK, but knowing how Linux works is better. Gentoo tests your skills on how Linux works.

 

[Nothinman]

Try install Gentoo with out GUI.

Being command line utility proficient is OK, but knowing how Linux works is better. Gentoo tests your skills on how Linux works.

Gentoo really just tests your ability to follow directions.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Gentoo really just tests your ability to follow directions.

Exactly. It doesn't hurt to follow the directions and learn what each command does though.

If you really want to learn a ton, doing a LFS (Linux From Scratch) compile and install is pretty in depth.

Honestly though, taking a quiz isn't getting you much. Just pick your favorite distro (Or VM/Multi-Boot and use a bunch) and just start playing around with things and reading forums.

-Kevin

 

[Nothinman]

Exactly. It doesn't hurt to follow the directions and learn what each command does though.

If you really want to learn a ton, doing a LFS (Linux From Scratch) compile and install is pretty in depth.

Honestly though, taking a quiz isn't getting you much. Just pick your favorite distro (Or VM/Multi-Boot and use a bunch) and just start playing around with things and reading forums.

-Kevin

Yea, going through a Gentoo stage 1 install once or twice isn't a bad idea. But I wouldn't recommend anyone actually use the distro for anything else. LFS will make you dig deeper into things and if you've got any programming knowledge should do a much better job of teaching you how everything fits together.

 

[Khyron320]

I installed gentoo way back when they had stage 1 2 and 3 installs. I installed the stage that had your pc compile everything from scratch for 72 hours... You guys are correct all i learned was following directions and some locations of files i didnt know about before.

the red hat exams look like a great idea thanks

 

[Fallen Kell]

I hadn't seen those Red Hat quizes before. I took the admin and the security one... Pretty much aced the admin (only had a 3 in two sections (jumpstart and something else), 4's for everything else). I didn't do too bad on the security one, but screwed up the ones I figured I would (DNS and BIND, SELinux, PAM, and VSFTP, since I don't "really" use any of them). I mean, I use PAM for things like password complexity, rules, and such, but don't really know off the top of my head what the differences are between required, sufficient, etc... And SELinux is simply a headache that we disable immediately.

As for digging into things, to learn how they work, I did most of that by fooling with one of the early CD distributions trying to figure out how to install it to a hard drive, yet still act the same way it does on the CD (i.e. only mounting the disk in read-only mode, creating the ram drive, mounting the compressed image file from the hard drive to the ram drive, etc.). Had me learning how to dig into the initrd.img file, etc.. Was a fun time to be honest.