Hi,
I'm currently revising LPIC-1 topics for coverage in my in my text on
system administration and I found the distribution of weights between
these two topics (103.2 and 103.8) unbalanced in favour of the latter.
I think that this is not consistent with the purpose of the exam, which
should be to assess the skills of a junior sysadmin.
I don't see how having a knowledge of vi more advanced to what is needed
to do simple modification to a file has more coverage in system
administration than be capable to use command to process text stream
(there are just 2 question to cover cut, tr, sort, split, uniq, wc).
I'm certainly biased not beeing an affectionate vi user, but I do not
see why 3 question on how to use a specific editor. LPI is a Linux exam,
and you must be able to do sysadmin work with any kind of editor not
just with vi. Beeing capable to change the default editor is enough in
my opinion.
So apart its diffusion that can justify a single question on how to do
simple operation when nothing else is available (but still I do not find
such a system in years, and nano is installed by default in the most
common distributions), I do not see why a sysadmin should be capable
"Navigate a document using vi" when there is less or why beeing
proficient in vi should be more important that knowing how to use text
filters.
So I suggest to reduce the weight of 103.8 to 1 or at least 2, giving
more coverage to topics of 103.2 (promoting at least to 3) that are far
more important in sysadmin work.
Simone
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