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Now that you've been through the course, you know your strengths and your weaknesses. You also know to expect things on the exam that will be in such detail that they could not be covered in this course. This course is limited to 8 hours, and the exam covers material that takes years to learn. So, the newer you are to Linux, the more work you have to do. The first thing you want to do is get your own set of the exam objectives. You can get that at the LPIC Website. You can use that list as a guide of things you need to review. When you go through them, read them carefully, and make sure you understand everything they're asking for. As sure as you gloss over some minor point of confusion, that very thing will be on the exam. The lessons in this course are all identified with an exam objective. Go back and view the lessons again to make sure you know and understand everything that's presented. In almost every case, you can expect to do some work on your own to fully understand what's expected for an objective. Then, check any items off your list that you understand thoroughly. As soon as you have them all checked off, you're ready. Be sure you read through the documents about how the software works. You will often find options that don't make sense at first. Try them. Often, seeing what they do clears up their purpose, and the exam is designed to be taken by people who have had hands-on experience, and you can't get that from just reading. If you can, install the software and work with its configuration to see how it behaves. Find out what it can do and what it can't do. This will take you some time, I know, but it's the only real way to learn it. You can't really understand, for example, a masquerading proxy and how it operates until you set one up and monitor the Internet messages going through it. You need to have a system you can experiment with; something you can afford to crash without causing any problems. If you try something, and it crashes the machine, you've learned something about how the software works. So no experiment is a waste of time. I can remember, several years ago, spending a week to get a modem to dial out and make a connection. Since that time, I have had no problems getting modems to work. After you've finished your studying, and you feel like you may be ready, try some of the online exams you can find around the Internet. Taking a test is not something you do every day, and it's a skill like any other. It improves with practice. So, practice.