M Ahsan wrote: > Installation utilities are not confined to > yum or apt; to name a few; zypper, pacman, urpmi, and so many others exists > but it is not expected from the candidate to have knowledge of these > utilities.
Which is probably just as well. After all, if you've seen one or two you have basically seen them all. It's not that they are vastly different in what they can do. > IMHO, there is no harm in advocating the popularity argument, I mean you > want the candidates to have the skills which are better aligned to the > market trend and popularity. There's nothing wrong with the popularity argument when it is reasonably clear what the most popular solution is (for example, nobody seriously argues against the fact that the LPIC-1 exam is based on bash rather than tcsh, zsh, or rc). It becomes a lot less clear-cut when there are several competing approaches which are not that far apart from each other as far as their popularity is concerned. You pretty much need to pick one if you don't want to get bogged down in minutia that don't advance your goal of figuring out whether a candidate is familiar with the general concept of whatever. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau · [email protected] · https://www.tuxcademy.org Freie Schulungsmaterialien für Linux und Open-Source-Software Free Training Materials for Linux and Open-Source Software _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
