[plug] Mistakes on your "Sample exam"

[Garth Atkinson]

I think we have answered one question at least then. Concerning Greg's
posting to them, given the amount of LUG's around the world that would
of seen this URL, and based on our comments/actions so far, I think the
linux certification site would of received a bucketload of email over
the last three days, and most of it critical too! The chances of getting
any positive feedback from them re changes to questions are NIL.


Greg Mildenhall wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> You seem to have a couple of mistakes on this page, or perhaps the cgi:
> http://www.linuxcertification.org/quizzes/Level1Quiz/
> 
> For 1.1.a, both A. and B. were certainly true at different stages of early
> computing history. A. happened earlier, so it probably a better answer
> then B, which you suggest.
> 
> In part 1.2.b, you say that
> "If free software is included in products and services being sold, only
> verbatim copies software can be redistributed."
> 
> Aside from the missing "of the", the statement is factually wrong, (the
> question is in the context of the GPL, which certainly permits
> modification) but of course so is C. so A. is unfortunately considered an
> incorrect answer. D. looks like it should be a valid answer, too, but the
> wording is not clear enough to be sure what it really means.
> 
> In 5.1.a, you claim that the statement "Man pages are not found in some
> distributions of Linux? " is false. Oooops. There are plenty of
> distributions without manpages, mostly embedded ones.
> 
> A final quibble, if I may - I think 2.3 would benefit from specifying
> "copying the OS software TO THE HARDDRIVE" in part C, otherwise it is more
> likely to be interpreted as making a backup of the installation media.
> I can only guess that this is what you mean in the question, but the
> question seems fairly trivial if that is indeed the meaning you intend for
> C. Response A. 1.2.C probably needs a rewording too, to make it clear you
> are talking about linking, as opposed to releasing under multiuple
> licenses.
> 
> I hope this feedback helps you to improve your service - I feel it is a
> necessary one for both the Linux community and the business world.
> 
> -Greg Mildenhall