Hi Matt, > 1. Releasing exam content (ie. questions) under an "open" license. > > I spoke with our psychometrician and others about the idea of creating > a pool of 3,000 to 5,000 questions which were all publicly available. > With this many questions in the pool, memorising all of the answers > would not really work without (acquiring?) an understanding of how the > technology worked. >
Hmm, not sure. <cynical>But as an author I do see a market for the "LPIC-1 exam cram" </cynical> No really, from an educational point of view, you just take away the last step in the learning process, the step where the student translates the theory in his own words to make the knowledge really his. > In this case, I'd propose a pilot project like thus: > > 1. Pick an exam > 2. Attempt a community project to create, review and assess the items. > 3. Publish a couple of "open" versions of the exam along with the > usual versions. > > If things work out, we could try it with other exams. If they don't > work out, we stick with the current model. Well, even if I don't think it is a good idea, I'm human and sometimes humans make wrong judgements. So let's try it anyway and see how it works out. At least we've tried in that case :-) > 2. Creating a stand-alone "virtualization" cert based on the 304 exam. > > I think there is enough "demand" from people that aren't interested in > the breadth of LPIC-2 but are very interested in the virtualization > part of Linux. > > For this idea, maybe have the 101 exam (or LPIC-1) as part of the > requirement...or not. > Linux based virtualization we're talking about right? I'd like to see at least LPIC-1 as prerequisite. Without that level of knowledge, it looses credibility, especially given the complexity of some of the kvm commands. > I noticed a week or two ago that RH has a RHCVA which isn't dependent > on obtaining the RHCE (for some reason, I always thought it did > require an RHCE) so there is a precedent for this idea. >From a commercial perspective, I think RHAT has an excellent idea there. Ask less prerequisites to have more people take the exam and earn more money :-) From a credibility perspective, I don't think we should do it completely without other requirements. HTH, Sander _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
