Richard Bos wrote:
Op woensdag 8 februari 2006 22:50, schreef Anders Johansson:
LPI is filled with outdated, and in some cases red hat specific, things,
Yeezzz what a bully reply. The thing is when people understand the outdated things, they are able to coop with the newer ones to.
I dare you to find a valid use for kernel version 2.2 information today. It's been a while since I took it, but I do remember there were a ton of things no one will ever use on a modern system
There are debian specific things in LPI too. That's is because it covers all distributions not just one.
No, you get to choose what you want, rpm or dpkg. If you choose rpm, you don't get the debian stuff
and it's an old fashioned q&a style exam,
Enabling people from all over the world poor or rich to take the exame. The old style q&a is with open several questions, so not easy (no gambling). Statistics are performed on all answers so the exam level keeps right. The questions are renewed about every 6 months, so there are no known questions on the exam. Questions can be provided to the lpi organisation, it's a bit like OSS.
Nice theory, but it doesn't really work that way in practice. I've seen cheat sheets that give you all LPI questions verbatim
where you have to remember command line parameters. Even being an top expert on a modern linux distribution isn't a guarantee that you'll pass LPI
What does that say about the expert? Perhaps too much specialized in one area? Questions are being asked such way, that they are able to distinquish an experienced (command line) user, from a brain dumper.
Thanks, I appreciate it
You'll be able to guess the right command option due to your experince with many tools, isn't it?
Give me a break. When was the last time you saw the man page for "tar". I know the options I use every day, for the rest I use the man pages, it's what they're there for. It's the same difference as between my university mathematics exams, and the engineers' math exams in the building next to us. They had to memorize all sorts of formulas, which they would use to calculate stuff. We had open book exams, and could bring just about anything into the exam, because our questions tested understanding, not mindless regurgitation I'm not saying CLP is the ideal form of an exam, I can give you a lot of bad aspects of it, but the idea of it is certainly better than LPI