On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, David A. Bandel wrote:
> While I don't/can't/won't speak for LPI, I've been somewhat involved in
> this. The last time around, anyone could submit questions. That didn't
> mean those questions would be used -- many were
> dismissed/modified/edited for various reasons. But once submitted, the
> items did belong to LPI.
>
> Now, some of us reviewed those questions. We were/are/continue to be
> under non-disclosure oaths as to test content. This part of the
> process, the actual item review, Les could not be involved in and comply
> with the letter and intent of the NDA (unless he's stopped writing
> course content for LPI exams). But content submission is not covered by
> NDA, it just involves a transfer of rights.
I like to elaborate on davids description:
* Anyone can submit test items. LPI only requires that author's rights
are transfered to LPI, for obvious reasons, which occurs implicitly when
someone submits an item. LPI cannot effectively enforce an NDA on these
items. Instead, we provide no information on which, how many, or what
fraction, of items have actually been used in the test; so the author
would not have inside information. LPI would publicly challenge false
statements of any author that he would have special knowledge about exam
content (for instance to promote training classes).
* Another category of SME's review the test items. Actually, they
may have written test items themselves too, but they do not get to
review them. No-one except the person(s) who create the final exams get
to see all the test items, but the reviewers get to see a significant
fraction (up to 1/3) of them. These people (including David and me) got
to sign a general NDA. It has not been explicitly forbidden to work on
training material, but any use of inside knowledge or advertising of doing
so would be a violation of the NDA and LPI would take appropriate legal
action.
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Tom Peters
Secretary & Exam Development Specialist,
Linux Professional Institute
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