Hi there, It is hard to find the right trade off between legacy technology that is loosing relevance and upcoming technologies that just begin to spread. >From the candidate's perspective there are old topics that they may rarely see in the field and that they would only learn for LPI -- though they may never use them again. On the other hand there are topics that are already adopted but not yet widely used though they should be considered when designing new setups.
As LPI has a large influence on what candidates spend their time on we should consider our objectives well. Imho the focus should be the large part of topics that are state of the art and both used in the field as well as in new setups. This is where we should test really intense and deep. On side issues we should definitely expect awareness of the candidates so that they can make a profound decision whether it is a topic they should use in a given context or not (i.e. if it is still offered by current distributions) and that they have the context to study that topic in all details in case it becomes relevant for them. We should not forget that LPI has a certain responsibility regarding the candidate's resources that are spent for studying the parts of the objectives the candidate is not that familiar with. Of course we must ask the candidates to have a comprehensive knowledge, but it must have the right trade off. Here I absolutely agree to Alessandro, tough I would apply the same 'legacy policy' to LPIC-2 too and expect candidates to be able to educate themselves for one or the other legacy topic using the context the got from LPI's 'awareness of'. ReiserFS, to come to an conclusion, is nothing I see any more at any of our customers. It's nothing I would recommend to anyone. Also, a Linux expert that know each and every ReiserFS command but cannot tell about the pros and cons of btrfs maybe had a slightly wrong focus in his studies... I would bring Reiser down to "awareness of" and drop it in the next revision. Best regards, Fabian PS: Regarding training material provides... it's their job to keep up with recent and cool technology! We should not postpone changes to let them off that debt. _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
