If it's anything like Cisco, the prep books are riddled with mistakes, but
the test was very accurate. Poor proofreading by non-geeks, I imagine.
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From: "Bill Canaday" <bill13510@wwnet.net>
To: "Metro Detroit Linux Users Group" <mdlug@mdlug.org>; "Florida Linux
User's Group" <flalug@nks.net>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 6:11 PM
Subject: [newletters] [flalug] dere feller geeques
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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:
> - -----------------------------
> Which of the following would be the Linux device name for the fourth
logical
> partition on the second IDE drive?
> - ------------------------------
> 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
> - ---------------------------------------
>
> 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":
>
> - ----------------------------------
> 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.
> - -----------------------------------
>
> 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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