Marc Baudoin wrote: > Did I say it was cosmetic?
It is cosmetic because the order of objectives in the list does not matter for teaching. There are various issues about LPIC-1 that deserve looking at but the order of the objectives should probably not be the first thing. > But trainees worry about that, especially because 101 is their > first exam. Mine don't. There is no reason that, given proper preparation, anyone should be worrying about an LPI exam. I've been teaching LPI prep classes at all levels for 10 years and no candidate I taught has failed an exam so far. I always find it interesting how people will propose huge revisions of the LPIC exams simply because *they* personally don't think that topic X is really relevant and thus should be removed, but topic Y, not covered by the exam so far, simply must go in because it is *so* important. It turns out that topics usually end up in the exams because a majority of the people that LPI has asked for input – usually a large number of stakeholders including but not limited to Linux instructors and book/courseware authors – have voted for them. So chances are that if something is in the list, people have at some point found it interesting, and as far as basic skills like the shell and the text-based tools go, these haven't changed a lot during the last 20 years or so, so it is reasonable to assume that their significance will remain unchanged for some time. There are other parts of Linux that are moving considerably faster, and these are probably where we should be concentrating our efforts when figuring out how to update the exams. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- & Netz-Schulungen [email protected], +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705), Geschäftsführer: Oliver Michel _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
