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(Note this, I'm under NDA, so I can't go into details about what the CLP practicum exam exercises are like in more depth and detail.) Hi! Today I did the CLP practicum. I had used this book for preparation. Not long ago I passed RHCE, Red Hat Certified Engineer exam, so following this book was a breeze. All the Lab Exercises felt easy, aswell as doing the two included practicums. I felt practicum exam 050-069 would be no problem. WRONG! Where should I start, exam 050-069 doesn't exist. CLP certification is gained throug something called Practicum v.2 exam# 050-689. This is an all different beast than anything this book prepares you for. For most of the exercises you only get maybe 10% coverage in the book. The book covers something with one page, but the dept of knowledge to solve the real problem might need 10 pages. In the information here at Amazon, they say this book covers exam 050-069, that doesn't exist. On the back of my book it says it covers exam 050-689. I would say that the only thing this book covers exam 050-689 is the cover. I get the feeling that they made the first practicum exam, and wrote the book at the same time. Scraped the first exam, but launched the book anyway. Smart thing to do Novell... NOT! Also the plattform they are using for this test is in lack of other words.. plain stupid. You are working with servers throug java and macromedia flash. The latency is atleast 1-2 seconds. Imaging typing something, and everything is lagging 1-2 seconds. You se you misspelled something, and press the arrow a few times, just to discover that you pressed a few to many. Tab doesn't work to "shortcut" commands and links. The resolution is 640x480, so I hope the shell is a good friend to you! Trust me, you will get super frustrated of the poor performance of the test system! One more problem for me was that I'm from sweden, used too swedish keyboard layout, but the test stipulates that you have an english layout. So I'm typing something, just to discover 1-2 seconds lather that I typed something different... oh.. that's right, | and ~ is not where they used to be. You get anoyed having to look at the keyboard all the time to find the right symbols. So how should you prepare for the practicum. Have this page as your guideline. http://www.novell.com/training/testinfo/objectives/clpobj.html Anything from this page can come as exercises.. in great detail!! Sure, you can use the book, but just as part of your preparation. Do your homework, since Novells book tutering failes. One more thing, the say the test is 2 hours on novell.com. When you login to do the test it says 2,5 hours, and when you start the actual practicum test you get 3 hours. You will need those 3 hours!! Remember that you need 85% score to pass. (I got 77%, but not thanks to this book.) One final note is, that I think the RHCE exam is much much more mature as an hands on exam. I get the feeling Novell have rushed something to the market that is far from mature. Sure, you are skilled if you pass the CLP, but if you do the RHCE exam, you'll know what I mean. Good Luck!