You're not going to get very far on this test without some command line knowledge.
On 10/27/2010 05:21 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Brodie, Kent wrote: > > >> An observation: I took the RHCE, and thought it was awesome - as in, >> intense. >> >> Example1: We were given a huge lists of tasks to set up for a new >> system/server. On a normal business day, I would expect to see that >> list, and tell the user, "I'll have this by sometime tomorrow". The >> RHCE list for the new setup, however, was as extensive, but you only >> were given something like 90 minutes. >> >> Example2: We were given another system that was broken. VERY broken. >> The room was filled with sysadmins. By the end of the timeframe, half >> of the room still had not gotten their boxes to run. >> >> I think out of 11 of us, only 6 passed [including me]. The instructor >> said something before the test that stuck with me, it was something >> along the lines of "During the test, you'll have full access to the >> documentation set(s) as well as any of the man pages for RedHat. But, >> I'll give you a clue- if you need to check the documentation often, >> you'll never have enough time to complete the test and pass... you >> just need to KNOW this stuff." >> > unless this stuff is really stuff that you would need day in and day out, > I think this is the wrong priority. I haven't gone through this, but I > would also be concerned if this was designed to primarily use the redhat > config GUI. > > I've known quite a few people who passed this sort of test (or would have > come close), but who were completely helpless if they didn't have access > to the GUI, and correspondingly, these same people were helpless a couple > of years later when a new release changed the GUI significantly. > > I'd much prefer someone who understood *nix and had to find/lookup where > the config file is on distro X the first few times over someone who knows > one distro inside and out, but can't get started on another one. > > the first type of person will probably come up to speed very quickly as > they work with a new distro, the second type may never pick it up. > > David Lang > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- -- Joe McDonagh Operations Engineer AIM: YoosingYoonickz IRC: joe-mac on freenode "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
