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Like a good penguinista, I have been studying for my RHCE cert. I am presently
slogging my way through the material for the RH302 exam by Michael Jang
(RHCE, MSCE, Linux +, LCP) published by Osborne (ISBN 0-07-22485-1) with
(ARRRGH!) a Windows compatible exam CD.
As I study, I am running into practice questions such as these:
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Which of the following would be the Linux device name for the fourth logical
partition on the second IDE drive?
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Okay, that's a reasonable and fair question. It was covered in the prep
material and I can calculate the correct answer. Let's see what answers the
book gives me to choose from first, before I go to the bother of calculating
anything. Probably the correct answer will just leap off the page at me and I
can speed along to a more challenging and time concuming question. So, let's
look at the list of proposed answers.)
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A) hda4
B) hda8
C) hda5
D) hda9
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Okay ... eeney, meenie, minie ... hey, wait a second; what 's wrong with THIS
picture? Hmmm ... flip ahead to the correct answer to see if I am just not
understanding the question correctly.
The book says the correct answer is "B":
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B. By definition the first logical partition on the first IDE drive on a
computer is hda5. Since logical partitions are then numbered in sequence, the
fourth logical partition on this drive is hda8.
(x) The other answers do not match the defined partition naming criteria for
the fourth [I]logical[/I] partition.
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I chose E) none of the above. As I understand matters, the proposed answers
all reference the first IDE drive but the question pertained to the second
IDE HD.
Will someone who has actually obtained a RHCE care to comment as to whether
this is how the test actually goes. I find it hard to believe that questions
such as this are actually typical of questions on the actual exam. I am
asking because this isn't the first curveball question I have encountered in
the sample questions the author presents. I am beginning to wonder if this
book is worth studying at all. I am leery of possibly taking erroneous
information seriously and committing it to memory now and to history when I
take the exam.
If there are enough question / answer sets like these present in the tests, I
can see why the initial failure rate is so high.
Other than goofy questions like these, I seem to be doing okay with the sample
questions so far (except as noted, I am going at about a 95% correct pace).
Does anyone have a different RHCE exam prep book they'd like to recommend?
Bill
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