On Wednesday 31 January 2007, Dimitrios Bogiatzoules, LPI Product Developer wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > Jeremy C. Reed said the following on 31.01.2007 04:29: > [...] > > > In other words, some of your LPI staff/board/spouses have written > > LPI-related educational materials and books (but not published or > > promoted by LPI). I am curious about if they had access to LPI's > > question pool. > > [...] > > The answer to this question is no. The only persons that have access > to the item pool itself is the product development team. In addition > to them, reviewers of translated exam forms have access to a specific > part of the item pool, too, but they are under NDA as well as the > product development team is. > > Everyone who signed an NDA is not allowed to use the knowledge about > the items in any way (no exam taking permission, no exposure of item > content, no work as trainer/author, etc.). > > Please be sure, that LPI allows access to the item pool only to the > persons that need it in order to develop the exams. Even items > authors do not get the information about if and when their items will > be used. > > As Scott, I'm not aware of a person that has access to the item pool > *and* wrote any training material. This is the first time I heard > about something like that and I'm curious why you asked...
I am an outsider and supporter of LPI and not connected to LPI in any official way and I can confirm what Taki says. I have contributed to the LPI exam development process three times, twice on Level 1 and once on the Ubuntu exam. Each time I was asked to sign an NDA (which I did gladly) and had to comply with perfectly reasonable security precautions. I was never given any access to the complete item pool and it was explained to me that I wouldn't get it either if I wasn't officially employed by LPI. I still actively give training and I have also written LPI training materials and I think I'm in a good position to tell Jermey exactly how useful access to the item pool would be to me: Dada. Nothing. Zip. Zero. In fact, it would just get in the way. You don't have to be around Linux very long to figure out the kind of stuff students have to know and good trainers concentrate on that. In all truth I can't even recall a single one of the 100 or so exam questions I've submitted over the years. And even if I wanted to I couldn't get them out of an archive somewhere as all my copies were destroyed as soon as LPI confirmed receipt of them. alan _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
