On Thursday 25 June 2009 18:19:46 Andy Goldschmidt wrote:
> Hi
>
> In the LPI exams, does it accept the different ways that flags that can be
> passed in commands ?

This question keeps coming up, and the answer is always the same (it's even in 
the FAQ):

The wording of the question itself will leave you in no doubt as to what 
format the answer should be in.

Rather expend effort on understanding Linux itself. If you know the command 
well and know what options to give the command to make it do a specific 
action, and if you can read English reasonably well, the correct way to answer 
the question will jump out of the screen (or from the paper) and bite you hard 
on the nose :-)

You are going to have to trust us on this one, for obvious reasons we cannot 
give actual examples.

One last thing: provide what the question asks for, nothing more and nothing 
less. Computer-based exams are marked by software, and software is not 
intelligent. Which tells you right away that complicated answers with large 
numbers of possible answers are not viable.

The exam tests your knowledge of Linux, not your ability to infer what an 
examiner might mean while playing cute word games with exam topics ;-)

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



>
> For example.
> If you need to specify a few flags will all of these be accepted ?
> -a -b -c
> OR
> -abc
> OR
> -b -a -c
>
> So basically, it doesn't matter what order the flags are in.
>
>
> What if a flag has a long name too ?
> For example the mdadm command can take these flags that mean the same thing
>
> -C  or   --create
>
> What if you include an extra flag that isn't required by the questions.
> For example including "-v" to mean verbose ?
>
> Regards
> Andy

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