I just took the Brainbench Linux Administration (General) and I passed at the Master’s Level with a score of 4.69 which puts me on the 1% top of this test takers. I made me feel a little better after screwing up half of the questions of my Google interview for a Linux administrator.

The skills certification I earned today is supposed to be a step towards a bigger certification for Systems Architect Network Support Specialist, Linux System Administrator or Information Security Administrator if I was willing to pay for more tests.

The test was pretty good, and the questions were not that outdated as on other tests. I thought it insisted too much on LILO, when almost all the big Linux distributions use GRUB bootloader. Also, I got no questions on iptables/netfilter. It told me that I have no weak areas, and I know I have. Taking the test I realized that I don’t know about pam_auth as much as I want.

This is my scouts badge for mastering the Linux Administration test:


Master in Linux Administration