On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> >A Level 2 candidate should be > >comfortable with non IDE hardware, such as >SCSI interfaces. In addition, > >candidates should be accustomed to installing >and using specialized > >peripherals such as cdrom writers, tape backup units, >and more. This > >level of testing will allow advanced certification levels to >incorporate > >user business strategies into corporate solutions. > > I'm >going to presume that we're interested in the uses of this hardware and how > >to enable it's interaction with the OS. Otherwise we would/will be getting >into > compatibility and driver issues across distro lines... a very ugly >situation! > It will be difficult to test on, I agree.. but definitelly >necessary. > >> Perhaps we may want to get into some RAID here... we *are* talking about >> advanced hardware devices here! We should also discuss software RAID as the >> raid1 implementation in the 0.90 raidtools is very nice and quite stable! >> >I had actually mentioned that... in pre-discussion versions of this draft. >Every whom I know deals with RAID is at a specialist of level III level. I >thought RAID would be better served in a level III, as trying to cover it >well enough in level 2, would heavily increase the size of the exam. >Thoughts? I don't think we can leave it for Level III. I know many sys-admins who I would not consider specialists at all but they *have* to deal with RAID implementations on a daily basis... including maintenance, troubleshooting and installation. -- Chuck Mead, CTO, MoonGroup Consulting, Inc. <http://www.moongroup.com> <chuck AT moongroup DOT com> PGP key available at: wwwkeys.us.pgp.net 6:05pm up 25 days, 13:38, 2 users, load average: 0.26, 0.24, 0.19 -- This message was sent from the lpi-examdev mailing list. Send `unsubscribe lpi-examdev' in the subject to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to leave the list.
