Ted Jordan wrote: > I just noticed that for the CCNA there is the choice of two exams, or > one composite exam > > Does LPI have that in their plans for the LPIC 1?
There's nothing to keep anybody from sitting as many LPI exams in a row as the test center allows (they may want to close up shop and go home at some point). I took the LPI-101, -102, and -201 exams one after the other on the same day (passed them all, too) and the only reason I didn't take -202 as well was that I wanted to read up on it some more. A composite exam (i.e., 120 question in three hours) would just make the LPI exam portfolio more complicated and consume staff and volunteer time not only due to the need to add the new exam to VUE and keep the two flavours synchronised, but also due to the need to explain to people that there is no actual difference between the two separate exams and the combined one as far as the subject matter and questions are concerned. (I'm assuming here that the composite exam won't offer “LPIC-1 lite” with fewer questions.) This means that there would be little to no benefit but considerable additional effort, which in a volunteer-driven organisation such as LPI is not a good idea. In addition, right now candidates are occasionally offered extra time to answer some extra questions, in order to bring new questions into the question pool. Adding 30 minutes to a 90-minute exam may not be much of an issue with most candidates, but adding one hour to a three-hour exam might. Anselm (technically no longer with Linup Front – must get that subscription fixed.) -- Anselm Lingnau … Linup Front GmbH (MAX21) … Linux- & Open-Source-Schulungen anselm.ling...@linupfront.de, +49(0)6151-9067-0, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Robert-Koch-Str. 9, 64331 Weiterstadt Post: Postf. 100121, 64201 Darmstadt DE Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705) Geschf: Oliver Michel, Nils Manegold _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list lpi-discuss@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
