I'm thinking that one should just using a remote management and link to the
proctor's computer (in the examination site).
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On Sunday, April 14, 2019 8:18 AM, Bryan Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Got to be far more in-depth than that.
>
> First off, you're going to need a testing location. One of the major
> complaints about red hat is it's very difficult to find a testing center
> especially outside of the US and Europe.
>
> Secondly, the time it takes to develop a Hands-On lab exam, is very very
> extensive and expensive. It's where Red Hat actually spends most of its
> money. I've seen it internally. There's a reason why their partner enablement
> went a different route. Then there's the automatic grading oh, just a cut
> down on the manual grading effort.
>
> 3rd oh, no way would any Enterprise use virtualbox. One would use the
> built-in KVM facilities, if not Ovirt for centralized control away from the
> student, and remote proctoring even. That's probably the easy part, but the
> testing center usually doesn't have computers capable of running things like
> that, so LP I would have to invest in computers in addition to leasing
> testing centers.
>
> So, this is a very difficult discussion that requires a lot in a lot of
> depth. I don't want inhibit anybody from having the ideas, I would just like
> to see greater and deeper discussion and depth.
>
> In fact, redhat maintains its infrastructure and kiosks and testing centers
> and has a scheduler online for signing up. I'm sure they would like to keep
> those kiosks better utilized oh, and that is an option. But the cost of those
> things are not cheap they're far far more expensive and that would either
> require LPI to make that investment or ask redhat to subsidize LPI.
>
> Was probably more likely is a remote testing capability on a cloud and an
> honor System or possibly select simulations but even those take a while and a
> lot of cost to develop.
>
> In the end Red Hat exist for a reason and it's able to do testing on par with
> the Cisco ccie at a great amount of cost that most candidates will be
> unwilling to pay. The idea has Merit but it's probably only going to be LPI
> level three.
>
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> On Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 09:55 BHL <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Not much of a idea, but:
>> 1 Virtualbox
>> 1 Ubuntu/Red Hat VM
>> a proctor who knows the objectives
>>
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>> On Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:18 PM, Bryan Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> It costs Red Hat over $1K/day to provide such testing. Yes, they do it at a
>>> loss, and subsidize it with for-profit training, let alone software. LPI
>>> is a non-profit with 3 orders magnitude less revenue.
>>>
>>> Red Hat candidates pay $400 per 2-3 hour exam, $800 per 4-6 hour per exam.
>>> And Red Hat options are not available in remotely as many countries as LPI.
>>>
>>> So... how should LPI proceed?
>>>
>>> - bjs
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>>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 00:03 BHL <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thinking that LPIC-2 and up should have a hands on portion (like Red Hat)
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