[ale] Linux + Vendor neutral???

[Howard A Story]

Yeah,
Ping is a very good example.   -c -n  are not the same thing either on OSes.

What got me was a question about a second GATEWAY/DHCP server on the 
network, (rouge).  The PC are static.  What would happen? Out of the 
multiple choices there was not a true right answer.


James Taylor wrote:

>I was an SME for the previous version of NET+, and spent a week and a half working with a team of other SME's reviewing and rewriting the questions from the original exam.
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>It was incredibly Windows centric, but I was able have some impact toward making it network rather than platform specific to a far greater extent than it was.  It was a real battle, though.
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>An example of a question would be the windows switches for ping to allow continuous pings.  The original question didn't specify platform, so it just assumed all versions of ping stop at 4 tries.
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>Ryan Fish wrote:
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>>Subject: Re: [ale] Linux + Vendor neutral???
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>>On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:03:40 -0500
>>"H. A. Story" <adrin at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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>>>I was just looking at a website.  And they had sample question for
>>>this test.   In one they asked about rawrite and the other they asked
>>>about a Red Hat command, can't remember it.   Has anyone on this list
>>>taken the test?  And how vendor neutral is it really????
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>>>Adrin
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>>I picked up a Linux+ book last spring, but I never got more than
>>halfway through it. It appears, though, that they focus on RPM and
>>Lilo, but not necessarily any specific distro (as far as the
>>organization of /etc/ goes).  Maybe I'll pick it up again...need to
>>test for that.  And my Net+....and CCNA...blah ;)
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>Net+  was not to bad.  A few off the wall questions, that didn't really 
>have a correct answer or the truly correct answer was not present.  I 
>used the Exam Cram books.  Just kept running the test over and over 
>until I was >80% and then took the test.
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