On Wednesday 14 June 2006 15:53, Stewart Watkiss wrote: > I think that it would be better to give access to a limited number > of man pages (and perhaps HowTo), in the form of a printed book for > the paperbased exams, and then test that the candidate understands > the tasks and where to find the information, rather than requiring > that the candidate remember some obscure command options.
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 19:47 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > This is an interesting idea, but will require that the existing exams > be remade in their entirety. It might work for L3 though as that is > new. Now this _is_ constructive, and many professional examinations provide just such as well. The questions then become ... 1. What format? Printed or alternative screen? 2. What costs does Prometric/Vue add for such? I know the Prometric/Vue testing systems can let you refer to alternative screens for exam-provided information -- even general for the exam. But how much extra does that cost in the exam build? Alternatively, can they provide a printed booklet? And how much extra does that cost as well? -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, technical annoyance mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------- The existence of Linux has far more to do with the breakup of AT&T's monopoly than anything Microsoft has ever done. _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
