Re: [SLE] CLP Certification

Op woensdag 8 februari 2006 23:49, schreef Anders Johansson:
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LPI is filled with outdated, and in some cases red hat specific, things,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outdated things, they are able to coop with the newer ones to.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

It's to check how much experience you have with linux (linux-2.2 is of 4 - 5
years ago). So if you you can answer such questions correctly, you probably
have over 4 years of linux experience.

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

Nowadays it is just both. With dpkg and rpm around everywhere one should just
know them both.

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

Heh, can you sent them to me?

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.

I had it with a collegue, he used a command I did not see before. He wanted
to do something, I guessed the cml option and it was just it! I never saw
the command before.


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

The thing with LPI is, that you won't be able to get all questions answered
correctly. That might because of the old linux stuff, the command line
options, or whatever. But with enough linux experience and some study
anybody from alround the world (poor or rich) can take a good linux exam in
an exam center not far from home.

--
Richard Bos
Without a home the journey is endless

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