On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Sander van Vugt wrote: > Interesting idea, but what does it mean for someone that has > LPIC-1/LPIC-2/LPIC-3? Does he/she have to redo 6 exams every 3 years > or so to keep the certification up to date? I *do* agree that > recertification is useful, but I don't think it's a good idea for > someone holding a lot of certificates to redo all of them > periodically. What about an update test?
I have an idea about that. It doesn't make sense for an LPIC-3 alumni to re-write 1 & 2. An update to their 3 certificate should be sufficient. An update test could be shorter than the original exam as well, as their is no need to re-test things that were previously tested and have not changed in the meantime. A possible solution would be to mark new items in the item database, and new topics/objectives as "New" and then use this sub-pool to draw exam items from for update exams. This way someone writing an update test would get mostly questions on newer stuff - it would also lend credibility to an update process. Additionally, an LPIC-1/2 update could be one shorter exam rather than the two longer originals. LPIC-3 would probably remain one exam per concept tested (due to the nature of how that level is stuctured). alan -- Alan McKinnon alan at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
