I have already edited some questions and will continue to do so through the rest of the pool
Thanks Wilma.
Justin
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Justin Davies LPIC2,OCA,DB2
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On 19 Jun 2004, at 14:52, Wilma Silbermann wrote:
FYI
From: Mark Stanislav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 June 2004 13:15:51 BST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Regarding LPI-101-DPKG
I feel that there were some issues with the test from my point of view. I have recently passed with a very good score the Linux+ certification, and then failed yours. I had a great knowledge of dpkg and it's flags, and yet I only saw about three questions on the exam about it? Also, the 'fill in the blank' questions were often hard to understand, given with little criteria/syntax to use. There are 50 ways to do any one task in Linux... and to remember the way the test wants, over 'my' (or any one elses) way to do it, is asinine to ask us to type out.
I think the questions were more interesting then Linux+, but the shortness of the exam, coupled with the very had to understand fill-in-the-blank questions made for a difficult exam to pass. Not because it was challenging, as much as hard to understand.
More so, silly stuff like piping and input direction questions seemed to just be there to be confusing, and not really get to the bare idea of what it does. You don't need to combine two pipes and a stdin into one question, it just makes it confusing, regardless if you know what they do.
I failed the test with a 460, and attribute some of the above to that. I have been working with Linux since slackware 7.1, and actively administrate for a large hosting company. I find it scary that not only did I not pass, but that I did not UNDERSTAND how to answer some questions that I was presented.
I hope some thought will go into alterations of the test, and more so hope that if you call a test *-dpkg, it will actually focus a lot on dpkg.
Needless to say, this test has left a sour note to my certification taking, and I have so far not been able to reccomend the test as a whole, only to say I did like some of the line of questioning, sans the parts which were too confusing to answer.
Test knowledge, don't make it so your testing someones ability to read the test writers mind.
-Mark Stanislav
