Re: [SLE] CLP Certification

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LPI is filled with outdated, and in some cases red hat specific, things,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 The thing is when people understand the outdated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


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