On 21 June 2013 15:14, Anselm Lingnau <[email protected]> wrote: > Alexandru Juncu wrote: > >> Well, the ls command isn't rocket science either, but it is presented in >> LPIC-1. > > This is because you can't very well use Linux without ls(1), but it is > perfectly possible to use Linux without virtualisation. Virtualisation is > surely a nice thing to have but let's not go overboard here. > > It's just as well to remember that LPIC-1 is not supposed to be an exam for > system administrators. It does cover some system administration but – unlike > LPIC-2/3 – its target population is »Linux professionals« in general. Which is > not to say that Linux professionals should not know about virtualisation, but > at LPIC-1 level there still are bigger fish to fry.
I agree that LPIC-1 is more like general Linux usage (more for linux power Users). On the other hand, each Linux class I ever taught, I had, at one point or another, to explain to the students how to use their virtual machines to do their labs (either VMware or VirtualBox, or qemu-kvm, or OpenVZ). This is why I think it's an important subject: because (at least my) students always end up using virtual machines for their labs (either in the class room or at home). > >> > What would you take out instead in order to make room? >> >> This is too dangerous to answer. Each topic is there for a reason and >> some people would be offended if I would say we should remove their >> favorite topic. > > On the other hand we can't keep cramming new topics into the exams, however > important they may seem, or eventually we will get to a point where every exam > consists of 60 different objectives, each with weight 1. > > I would be in favour of a policy where whoever suggests an entirely new topic > to be added to LPIC-1 or LPIC-2 should also come up with a well-argued > proposal of what other topic (or topics) to remove in order to make room. This > is not as much of an issue in LPIC-3, where we can always make another exam > ;^) > > Anselm _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
