On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 18:46 -0400, G. Matthew Rice wrote: > You want the good news first? > I only was able to speak with Vue about this today but the gist of it > is that they can include electronic reference materials in their exams at no > additional cost.
In what format? CHM? > Assuming this is the same with Prometric, we then have to: > - create the reference guide > - translate it into all languages that we have an exam (English, Japanese, > German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese and Swedish Chef) > - create a print version for the paper exams > - get LPI to approve and find the funding for this > This would be a major undertaking and transition, too, that would need to be > timed with a complete review of the item pool. > Any keen authors out there? Man pages are man pages. Additional materials would then be extra considerations, based on the type of questions asked. As always too much information is preferred. You want people to already know what they are looking for, not learn it from the materials. Too much information is a great, but simple, distractor. We can also have far more fill-in-the-blank questions that take parameters than just "type the name of the command." -- 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
