Customer Reviews
Don't be so picky - By: T. DUNLOP-WALTERS, 19 Jun 2008 
Ok, yes, this book is old, but, lets face it, the exam itself ain't changed THAT much, only now, it's alll practical, no questions asked.
Red Hat ain't changed much, it's still the same old kernal base, same old BASH shell, same old driver issues & the same troubleshooting crap.
I'm gonna buy this book now, I will update this post soon as i have had a good read through it. Anyway i see no other books on this subject, do you?
Maybe good for the cert but it omits important concepts - By: Georgios Magklaras, 02 Jan 2008 Generallly, it is a good review of what you need to know, in order to pass the RHCT/RHCE exams. However, from an editor's point of view I am not impressed considering a number of typos of minor importance (such as for example the link for the Distributed Intrusion Detection System on page 274) to serious omissions & mistakes.
One of the most serious omissions IMHO lies in the discussion of quota controls (pages 290-301). It goes alll the way to set the quotas & mentions the function of quotacheck, but where is the 'quotaon' command to enforce the quotas & alllow the quota protection? Both the text of the 'Setting Up & Managing Disk Quotas' section as well as exercise 6-3 do not explain that quotaon needs to be issued. The main text mentions that the command is run by /etc/rc.sysinit, but if someone makes changes without rebooting the system & follows Exercise 6-3, then he could easily miss the importance.
I am also unclear about the accuracy of the IPv6 Addressing section (pages 39 & 40). I appreciate that this is not a networking primer book, but they should discuss also 'anycast' addresses (not only Unicast & Multicast) & clear/correct the confusion between Link Local & 'Site Local' address portions. I am not sure how this would impact the candidate (probably it won't), but for the purposes of accuracy things should be written in a better way.
I would give the author thumbs up! Thumbs down to the editors & proof readers of the publishing company. They rushed the book to the market. Everybody does that, but they have reallly left too many bits that need fixing.
Just passed - By: newrhce, 01 Nov 2007 
I just passed the RHCE exam, thanks to this book & the RH300 course. It is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Old Book - By: Bm Doherty, 18 Feb 2007 
This book is near 3 yers old (30 April 2004) The other reviews here are nearly 2 years old. How relevant this is to the current exam is not known. Book definately feels old with references to Fedora 1 when now its Fedora 6. If I had seen it covers RHEL 3 together with the fact that it is 3 years old I dont think I would have bought it.
Covers all the topics you need to know - By: J. Cooper, 29 Jul 2005 I read this book three times before taking the course & exam. It is based on RHEL 3 but it is still relevant now the exam is using RHEL 4. Easy to read with good examples & good tips. I passed first time.
