On Wednesday 14 June 2006 23:50, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > 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?
There would have to be at least a paper version for the pbt exams. AFAIK Prometric and VUE only use Windows workstations, so a .chm file could be made available. Problems with printed copies: 1. initial printing expense 2. someone has to compile the list of pages to be included 3. each book must be checked after every exam for little "notes" written in the margin 4. they have to be transported to the exam lab event. This gets very expensive -- If only me, you and dead people understand hex, how many people understand hex? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
