Hi, Nice work on the new LPI exam. I think it overall covers the needs pretty well.
I am wondering what the actual target audience is. Should someone holding a basic certificate be able to work in a professional environment or should he or she only be able to get his or her own linux system running? In other words are we talking about sysadmins or users? In both cases I agree that covering regex and scripts is too advanced for an introductory level. Most sysadmins I encounter (even LPIC-3 certs) have little to no scripting skills and have a very hard time coping with the concepts of loops, variables, and branches. best regards, Martijn On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Anselm Lingnau < [email protected]> wrote > Objective 1.2.5 (Networking Your Computer) stands out because it (together > with the one on creating users) is the only one that actually requires > »root« > permissions. It seems to me that the scope of this objective exceeds pretty > much all of the rest of the exam. In actual practice, what is required to > get > a Linux computer on a LAN is to stick the CAT cable into the Ethernet port > – > people will very likely either run a home router with a nicely > preconfigured > DHCP server, or an enterprise-type networking infrastructure, also with a > nicely preconfigured DHCP server. If this is not the case, then there will > be > some friendly family or IT staff member who got the network running in the > first place and should be able to help out. In my opinion it makes no sense > to > require the MQC to know about »netstat« and »/etc/resolv.conf« (which is > incidentally misspelt in the objective) while at the same time stipulating > that, e.g., »vi« is too difficult for them and they must answer questions > on > »pico«. I think that, if anything, this objective should be downgraded to a > »know your options« objective that, say, requires people to know the > difference between a LAN and a WLAN, along the lines of objectives 1.1.2 or > 1.2.3. > In the same vein, I would leave out objective 1.5.2 (Creating Users and > Groups), just to remove the dependency on »root«. Again, casual users will > most probably use the graphical tools that their Linux distribution offers > for > this if at all. > > Instead, what I'd like to see in the exam is a simple introduction to the > idea > of pipelines, based on programs like »grep« (which is already in the exam) > and > possibly simple applications of »sort«, »cut«, and »wc«. Pipelines are a > central concept of Unix (and Linux). They are responsible for much of the > expressive power of the shell and arguably of much more practical use to a > Linux beginner than knowing how to add users and groups (which in many > circumstances they won't get to do anyway). Junking objective 1.5.2 would > free > 2 weight points for a pipelines objective. Failing that, is there a > rationale > for deliberately leaving the topic out? > Anselm > (my personal opinion, as usual) > -- > Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- & > Netz-Schulungen > [email protected], +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, > www.linupfront.de > Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany > Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705), Geschäftsführer: Oliver Michel > _______________________________________________ > lpi-examdev mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev >
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