Hello Dimitrios. First, thanks for changing the subject. Yes, I'm talking about hands on exams.
Well, let me try to explain what I think about hands on exams. 1. L3 is to be the senior certification for LPI, so I think that to it get more credibility, a hands on exam is perfect. (I'm not saying that L1 and L2 has no credibility, or any other paper based exam). 2. We all know about braindumps, testkings, boson, etc, where some people just memorize the answers. 3. Just for example, I was taking a look at Sans GSE certification, which they did too much difficult to have just a little people certified. I don't want that for LPIC3, but looking at GSE, you see that people have to demonstrate really that they own what they are being tested. It is what I see in a hands on exam. Just memorizing the solution is not sufficient to put your hands there and make it working. 4. RHCE, CCIE and others are successfull examples of hands on exams. You see many people with CCNA (paper based with some hands on simulator) and just a few with CCIE. About your other question, we are talking about samba/ldap for now. I think that they can run in any Linux OS, because what we should validate is the "specialization" is working, not if it was installed by rpm, tgz, dpkg and where the conf files is by default in each distribution. Sure about this question we need to think a little more if hands on is the solution chosen. Thinking more there are many others arguments for using hands on exam, but first we need to know if LPI has interest in this type of exam. I have seen this same thread in lpi-discuss mailing list before and LPI always say, the price to make a infrastructure for hands on exam will increase the exam price, there is no infra, etc. Sorry for the long email and my english mistakes. Regards, Felipe Salum Brazil World Cup Champion 2006 :) On 6/13/06, Dimitrios Bogiatzoules, Product Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Felipe, Felipe Salum said the following on 13.06.2006 17:35: > Hi People. > > Just to start the thread for LPIC-3. > > It will be based in multiple-choice and fill in the blank questions > until now. > I would like to ask what do you think about all LPIC-3 exam series be > based in lab exams ? > > I ask that because I see LPIC-3 as the top for LPI, and nothing better > than the top certification close with a lab exam and no more paper > based. Regardless what I think about form based exams versus hands on exams: What are your arguments that led you to the statement that an exam lab is the best solution for L3? You probably mean hands on exams, exams where candidates have to perform tasks on a Linux system. We need a discussion that is based on facts and I'm curious to see what others think about it. BTW: As a distribution neutral certification, what would your choice be if a L3 exam would be offered as hands on? Again, my questions above do not mean that there is any decision already taken. I only want to be sure that we are discussing on hard and not soft facts... Best regards, Taki -- Dimitrios Bogiatzoules Product Developer LPIC-2 Linux Professional Institute GnuPG Key ID A7E4D183 http://www.lpi.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpi-german.de _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
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