I agree.. The LPI exam is imperfect... One the other had... The Microsoft exams are perfect..Just like the software!! <Ducking....> hehe User Iam <div>On 7/5/06, Daniel Carrera <<a href="mailto:daniel.carrera@zmsl.com">daniel.carrera@zmsl.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello, I've been going through sample LPI exams, and I don't like some of the questions. In brief, I think they're broken, and I wonder how useful LPI really is for measuring Linux proficiency. For example: One sample question asked "You are installing an ISA card; what do you need to do?". Two options were (a) Nothing, Linux will configure it automatically and (b) Use isapnp and pnpdump. First, there's the matter of relevance. ISA disappeared years ago. Any PII or newer won't have ISA slots. Second, the question is flawed because the answer depends on the kernel you're using. With the old 2.2 kernel you had to use pnpdump to get information which could then be fed into isapnp. Starting with the 2.4 kernel, this functionality was added into the kernel and they no longer exist. Debian Woody uses the 2.2 kernel. If we're going to ask a question about hardware that was obsolete 6 years ago, it's not beyond reason to consider a distribution version that was current 18 months ago. The exam also asks questions about vi. I understand the logic in asking about the one text editor that any system, including a rescue system, is guaranteed have. But they seem to ask the wrong questions about it... For example, it asks how to move the cursor up 4 spaces. I may not remember which of hjkl moves the cursor where, but in real life I can find out by pressing them. Plus, currently vim understands the arrow keys. And what if I write "4k" and the computer expects "kkkk"? Also, when it asks how to "save and exit", what if I am used to using :wq and the exam expects me two say :x ? Does it really matter if I know that :x can save and exit as long as I am able to save and exit it? In some questions the exam seems to be measuring the wrong things. Cheers, Daniel. -- <a href="http://opendocumentfellowship.org">http://opendocumentfellowship.org</a> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on unreasonable men." -- George Bernard Shaw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEq4EBp0IZBOPRtlQRAjXqAKCAy/6zX2uX10kEcCrk/Krwe2CCpwCdG2DZ iW531Fy0BMtRIyo5jXkI1wo= =zn/t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>