Again the infrastructure , the control and security of where that testing
takes place, and other things linking back to another location where they
can be multiple exams going on per individual Proctor , still has a cost to
it.

The alternative is to use an honor System where the remote testing wouldn't
be in a secured location oh, and that would bring costs way down.
Unfortunately some may question the integrity of the exam and certain areas
at that point.

Again, if you have a detailed plan I would love to see it. Just understand
red hat and Cisco had the two most expensive testing capabilities and both
are multi-billion-dollar companies. I would love to get access to Red Hats
kiosk system, and even then that will take redhat subsidizing another
entity like LPI.

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On Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 10:31 BHL <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm thinking that one should just using a remote management and link to
> the proctor's computer (in the examination site).
>
> Sorry I forgot to use Reply all
>
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> On Sunday, April 14, 2019 8:18 AM, Bryan Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Got to be far more in-depth than that.
>
> First off, you're going to need a testing location. One of the major
> complaints about red hat is it's very difficult to find a testing center
> especially outside of the US and Europe.
>
> Secondly, the time it takes to develop a Hands-On lab exam, is very very
> extensive and expensive. It's where Red Hat actually spends most of its
> money. I've seen it internally. There's a reason why their partner
> enablement went a different route. Then there's the automatic grading oh,
> just a cut down on the manual grading effort.
>
> 3rd oh, no way would any Enterprise use virtualbox. One would use the
> built-in KVM facilities, if not Ovirt for centralized control away from the
> student, and remote proctoring even. That's probably the easy part, but the
> testing center usually doesn't have computers capable of running things
> like that, so LP I would have to invest in computers in addition to leasing
> testing centers.
>
> So, this is a very difficult discussion that requires a lot in a lot of
> depth. I don't want inhibit anybody from having the ideas, I would just
> like to see greater and deeper discussion and depth.
>
> In fact, redhat maintains its infrastructure and kiosks and testing
> centers and has a scheduler online for signing up. I'm sure they would like
> to keep those kiosks better utilized oh, and that is an option. But the
> cost of those things are not cheap they're far far more expensive and that
> would either require LPI to make that investment or ask redhat to subsidize
> LPI.
>
> Was probably more likely is a remote testing capability on a cloud and an
> honor System or possibly select simulations but even those take a while and
> a lot of cost to develop.
>
> In the end Red Hat exist for a reason and it's able to do testing on par
> with the Cisco ccie at a great amount of cost that most candidates will be
> unwilling to pay. The idea has Merit but it's probably only going to be LPI
> level three.
>
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>
>
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 09:55 BHL <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Not much of a idea, but:
>> 1 Virtualbox
>> 1 Ubuntu/Red Hat VM
>> a proctor who knows the objectives
>>
>>
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>> On Saturday, April 13, 2019 10:18 PM, Bryan Smith <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> It costs Red Hat over $1K/day to provide such testing. Yes, they do it at
>> a loss, and subsidize it with for-profit training, let alone software.  LPI
>> is a non-profit with 3 orders magnitude less revenue.
>>
>> Red Hat candidates pay $400 per 2-3 hour exam, $800 per 4-6 hour per
>> exam. And Red Hat options are not available in remotely as many countries
>> as LPI.
>>
>> So... how should LPI proceed?
>>
>> - bjs
>>
>>
>>
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>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2019, 00:03 BHL <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thinking that LPIC-2 and up should have a hands on portion (like Red Hat)
>>>
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