On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 03:18:34PM -0400, Mike Jang wrote: > LPI exams are more standard multiple choice exams. These are sometimes > associated with "paper tiger" certs. That may not be fair. The people > behind LPI have worked hard (using psychometrics) to make their multiple > choice questions a relevant test of real-world skills... but others > suggest they are still multiple choice questions, whose answers can be > memorized. "Psychometrics" always makes me think of Hari Seldon. C'mon, just admit it: testing isn't a hard science and no amount of technobabble will make it so. A well-designed hands-on test -- which I believe the RHCE is, although it's been forever since I took it -- is more valuable than a _perfectly_ designed multiple-choice test by its very nature. If someone comes to me with an LPI certification, I think "hmmm, well, this person can cram", and they've definitely read a book or two on Linux, but if they have a RHCE, there's a basic assurance that they've got elementary problem-solving skills. Maybe it's not _much_, but it's certainly something. (And let's not even talk about CompTIA's Linux+....) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
