On Friday 14 May 2004 18:11, Bill Canaday wrote:
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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?
hdb4 of course.
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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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The answer is none of the above.
>
> 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":
It is clearly wrong.
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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).
Not goofy. Just tests if you have real knowledge.
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> Does anyone have a different RHCE exam prep book they'd like to recommend?
>
> Bill
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