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I would recommend the lpi exams over the novell exams, or comptia exam any day of the week, the problem with the novell exams (not just in the extra cost) is the simulator - which is ie (windoze) based, and it crashes. Novell 'cde' exam takers will know that practical exams form novell where always buggy. and hard to find places where you take them Novell has some way to go before I would recommend them LPI has less of these 'problems'. Doing the Linux + exam from Comptia exam is considered basic by lpi standards. Novell's approach to testing really depends upon how far away you are from mst timezone is a illustration of the problems both global test centres and takers can have with novells 'practical' tests Linux can be complex, and nobody walks around the the complete syntax of the apache webserver in your head, I dont.