On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> First, thanks for the starting feedback on the current posted objectives.
> Please, keep it coming!
>
> Here's a stab at preliminary objectives for hardware tasks. Please
> review, comment, or rip apart as previously requested :)
Some general comments, with examples:
* Please carefully define which acronyms the LPIC should know, and
spell out any others. Also acronyms must be unambiguous, so the LPI
objectives and tests may not contain any acronym that has more than
one meaning. I have been maintaining an official LPI glossary that Alan
once started, it is at:
http://www.lpi.org/p-glossary.html
e.g. (is LVM a household world among Linux sysadmins?):
[4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.6.3, 4.11.1, 4.11.2, 4.11.3
Obj : Software and kernel configuration for hardware
Configure kernel options to support various hardware, including
UDMA66 drives and IDE CD-Burners. Use LVM to manage hard disk drives
and partitions and software tools to interact with hard disk settings.
Includes tools and files such as:
* hdparm
* tune2fs
* /proc/interrupts
* Be VERY careful with your language, do not use colloquialisms and
slang. Someone who is not fluent in English must be able to figure out
the meaning of the objective with the help of a dictionary (be it a
special one on technical English).
e.g.:
- "Configure Linux installation": What is "installation"? Most properly,
it is the act of installing. So you ask to do something about the
installation procedure itself, presumably when creating the installation
CD of a Linux distribution. So the phrase may be interpreted to mean
things like: "Create the default configuration of a Linux system for the
installation CD of a Linux distribution", or "Create configuration tools
for the installation CD of a Linux distribution" or "Create the default
settings of the installation procedure for a Linux distribution" - all of
which are quite unlike what you mean.
I guess by "installation" you mean: "that which has been installed",
i.e. a Linux system; but this is a more colloquial use of the word.
Such terse (3-words!) colloquial formulas can only be understood
when expanded, which may be done in any number of different ways.
I think in this case you mean to say something like "Be able to
configure a Linux system to include ..." or "Be able to configure a Linux
system during installation to ...".
- "Configure Linux ... configuration" is a tautology and has no specific
meaning.
- "autodetect" is hardly a well-known verb, and it may have different
interpretations. In this case, I suggest a more elaborate formulation,
like: "Be able to configure the system to automatically detect PCMCIA
devices, such as network cards."
- Finally, if there is nothing to list among the examples, it is better to
leave out the bulleted list. Otherwise people may think they are missing
something.
[4.8.1, 4.8.2
Obj : Configuring PCMCIA devices
Configure Linux installation and configuration to include PCMCIA
support. Configure PCMCIA devices, such as network cards, to
autodetect.
Includes tools and files such as:
*
* Be very careful with interpunction (',', and also ';', ':', and
'.') and conjunction ("and"). In a comma-separated list, the items are
separated by comma's, so words conjugated by "and" belong together in the
same item. This is a lawyer's finesse, but it has been causing
ambiguities and mis-interpretations in our Level 1 objectives.
e.g.: "multi-port serial cards and LCD panels" are apples and cows thrown
into the same basket in the text below; it should read "multi-port
serial cards, and LCD panels":
[4.2.1, 4.3.2, 4.3.3, 4.4.5
Obj : Adding New Hardware
Configure internal and external hardware devices for a system,
including new hard disks, dumb terminal devices, serial UPS devices,
multi-port serial cards and LCD panels.
Includes tools and files such as:
* XFree86
*
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Tom Peters
Director of the Board & Exam Development Specialist,
Linux Professional Institute
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