Free Red Hat distros in mind would be CentOS/Oracle Linux/Fedora
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, April 16, 2019 11:04 AM, Stephan Wenderlich <[email protected]> wrote: > I would suggest to implement a pseudo terminal like cisco does to test > some topics. Yes it's right that the LPI is vendor neutral but on the > other hand LPI test rpm/yum dpkg/apt ...so...even as a neutral party in > the cert market, > debian and rhel based distros ARE STANDARD. No one is asking for broken > gentoos or archaic slackware. > > On 16.04.19 19:34, [email protected] wrote: > > > HI all, > > I'm thinking the same question of Anselm, but BJS already replied this > > question, how much more security/practice, most expensive is exame, > > make it impossible the project/institute LPI. > > On 14/04/2019 13:16, Anselm Lingnau wrote: > > > > > BHL wrote: > > > > > > > I'd probably hope that it can be discussed by other people to add > > > > a hands on portion. > > > > This idea has been around, and proposed, and debated, for about as > > > > long as LPI > > > > exams exist. > > > > > > The main advantage of a hands-on exam is that it gives people a warm > > > fuzzy > > > feeling that candidates who do well in it “really know their stuff”. In > > > reality it is not at all clear that a hands-on exam provides > > > information about > > > the capabilities of a candidate that the current written LPI exams > > > don't, or > > > if it did, whether whatever information it provides is worth the > > > considerable > > > extra hassle (and cost) we'd incur not just with administering the > > > exam fairly > > > and accessibly, but also with designing the questions/tasks in the first > > > place. > > > For starters, remember that LPI exams are supposed to be > > > vendor-neutral but a > > > hands-on exam by its very nature isn't (Red Hat has a distinct > > > advantage there > > > because all they need to test is how well people can cope with RHEL). > > > You > > > would have to decree that hands-on exams can happen on any one of a > > > handful of > > > officially-eligible Linux distributions (at the candidate's > > > discretion? at the > > > examiner's discretion?), and it'd be likely that the LPI exams would > > > end up as > > > inofficial CentOS or Ubuntu exams simply because these might be the > > > distributions that are used for the hands-on tests. That's not what > > > we want. > > > Also, for practical reasons the number of scenarios that come up in > > > hands-on > > > testing is probably going to be fairly limited. It is reasonable to > > > assume > > > that these scenarios will be just as amenable to “brain dumping” as the > > > written exams are, and that people will merly train themselves to > > > perform a > > > number of steps by rote that will accomplish whatever the ten exam > > > scenarios > > > call for. We can of course try to cycle the scenarios like we do now > > > with the > > > exam questions, but the scenarios are a lot more difficult to prepare > > > than the > > > questions and that means that they will probably stick around longer > > > simply > > > because the people who are qualified to come up with them, translate > > > them, > > > etc. are limited in the time at their disposal. In effect, chances > > > are that > > > such an exam will not provide the hoped-for insight into how a > > > candidate deals > > > with an unfamiliar situation because the situations they encounter on > > > the exam > > > are not unfamiliar, and at that point the value proposition of a > > > hands-on exam > > > breaks down. > > > Finally, the current LPI exams are dirt-cheap, as professional > > > certification > > > exams go, but in many places the exam fee is still a fairly sizable > > > chunk of > > > one's budget. How much do we get to charge for hands-on testing > > > before they > > > are priced out of reach of candidates in less affluent countries? > > > Anselm > > > > lpi-examdev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev > > lpi-examdev mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] https://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
