Happy to see content of the exam is going to be relevant to changing world and thus I'm waiting impatiently for inclusion docker, kubernetes, ansible and similar and I believe something to be sacrificed is not necessarily the thing which is topic of this post about. On 11 Apr 2016 22:54, "Anselm Lingnau" <anselm.ling...@linupfront.de> wrote:
> Mark Scholten wrote: > > > I would prefer it to include multiple editors. Eg the 5 most used. > > I think this would be a singularly unproductive idea, for the following > reasons: > > – Right now people are forced to learn at most one editor they don't like > (namely vi). With this approach it is virtually guaranteed that > everyone > will have to learn four editors they don't like. > > – Right now the exam has 3 questions on vi. If we were to cover more > editors, it stands to reason that the number of questions on text > editing > would have to be increased to be commensurate with the time people have > to spend on learning the topic, but we don't really have questions to > spare. If anything, the number of questions on vi should be *decreased* > in order to be able to ask more questions on more important topics. > > – We have been fighting hard to reduce the number of objectives on the > exams that are basically kitchen-sink type lists of various programs > that all do more or less the same thing, and which were at some point > added simply because whoever was in charge at that time didn't want to > piss people off by excluding their favourite piece of software. For > example, LPIC-2 used to cover, at some depth, four different MTAs > (Sendmail, Postfix, Exim and Qmail), but we managed to bring that down > to > Postfix plus some Sendmail plus knowing that Exim and Qmail exist. It > is > reasonable to say that if you have studied one MTA in detail it will > not be too difficult to transfer that knowledge to other MTAs. > > In the same spirit, what is important to most people as far as editors > are concerned is muscle memory, and it's simply not worth the trouble > to ask questions on a whole bouquet of different editors that nobody > will > all be using at the same time, anyway. People can get by with at most > two > editors, namely their favourite editor and vi, and it is reasonable to > require some vi on the exam if we must, but we can't cover everyone's > favourite non-vi editor or even the four most popular of those (by > whose count, anyway?), too. > > Anselm > -- > 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
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