Re: SAIR Tests seem to be up ...

1999-07-01 Thread Forrest Tiffany
Richard Sharpe wrote: At 11:55 PM 6/30/99 -0500, Alan Susan Mead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SAY, I just had a great idea or a crappy one (I cannot tell): would it be helpful . . . to, say, publish one bad item each day during item writing, dissecting how it could be better? I actually

Re: SAIR Tests seem to be up ...

1999-06-30 Thread Richard Sharpe
At 02:35 PM 6/30/99 +0100, James Fidell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Richard Sharpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 3.1b Which one of the following is the correct command to store all of the contents of all files in the present working directory (or pwd) into a single new file

Re: SAIR Tests seem to be up ...

1999-06-30 Thread Michael Jang
Richard, I think Richard Stallman is the motivation behind the questions on history. If I understand right, his thinking is that Linux Gurus without a sense of history will fall to the same mistakes made by the Microsofts and even the Apples or the world. Remember, Stallman insists that people

Re: SAIR Tests seem to be up ...

1999-06-30 Thread Chuck Mead
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Forrest Tiffany spewed into the bitstream: 2.5 Jimmy wants to power off his computer. Which of the commands (entered at the command line) will cause his system to shut down and stop? (Choose the BEST Answer) a)shutdown

Re: SAIR Tests seem to be up ...

1999-06-30 Thread Forrest Tiffany
"A.R. (Tom) Peters" wrote: I suppose Sair put rejected questions as examples on the web. I hope for them (not for us) that the quality of their actual exams will be better. I say we take this as an important note. If we put sample questions on the web, make sure we check them carefully for

Re: SAIR Tests seem to be up ...

1999-06-30 Thread Alan Susan Mead
Just to stick in my $0.02 to an audience who will contribute items for LPI, this item makes me ill because: (1) it seems as though multiple interpretations are possible (does 'shutdown' imply 'shutdown -h now'?) (2) the answer is different from what a competent junior/regular sysadmin would do