Hi Andy, No problem. I mentioned the FAQ not so much for your direct benefit, but more for everyone else reading this list and wondering about the same thing. And also to highlight that the issue is something LPI has known about since day one and has taken steps to remove from the process.
This might be a good point to mention something about psychometrics (the science of testing): Too many people mistakenly assume that exams have trick questions, or the curve balls that real life throws at you. While solving such may do wonders for your personal reputation in industry, they are completely worthless in exams. There is simply no point at all to asking a question that nobody (or everybody) can answer correctly, or have multiple correct answers. Questions have to be on the lines of "x% of people who deserve this certification can be expected to know the answer" where x is a reasonable number, and can be measured. To do that, the question has to be completely unambiguous with one and only one defined correct answer. Anything else introduces wild variables that have nothing to do with the exam, and skew the measurements. I did a few workshops a few years back where we developed some new exam questions. All of us present intuitively knew the above but when we did it for real, we found out very quickly just how hard it is. We had to go to extraordinary lengths to devise questions that worked properly. Looking back on the exams I wrote before that, I see straight away that those exam developers faced the same issue and solved it exactly the same way we did :-) On Thursday 25 June 2009 19:13:14 Andy Goldschmidt wrote: > Hi Alan > > Thanks for the info, I do apologise for NOT looking on the FAQ first. > > Regards > Andy > > > > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:53:11 +0200, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > 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): -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
