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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 1997 00:10:06 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To:        Bill Pechter <pechter@lakewood.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sysadmin levels today?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970730235932.19785S-100000@alive.znep.com>
In-Reply-To: <199707310253.WAA18153@i4got.lakewood.com>

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On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Bill Pechter wrote:

> > On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Branson Matheson wrote:
> > 
> > >  ( http://www.ferginc.com/~branson/phone.questions.html )
> > 
> > Ooooh weee!  I think I need a review...  Thanks for posting this, it was
> > very informative...
> > 
> > Charles
> 
> You and me both... Just took the sysadmin test at:
>  http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/usail/test/

Too bad some of the questions are... ermm... very trick questions. 
Normally that's fine, but not when you can only select one choice and
can't elaborate. 

examples:

27. [E46] Which of the following two transport mechanism is used by NFS?

       UDP
       TCP

(the correct answer is "yes".)


35. [M75] Only one License Manager may be installed on a server.

       True
       False

(the correct answer is "perhaps", but you could argue the general answer
is false)


39. [E65] Shell scripts that run SUID or SGID can be sufficiently secure.

       True
       False.

(the correct answer is that nothing is secure.)

43. [M93] Which "traditional" TCP/IP service is often the most problematic
for microcomputers to provide?

       Remote printing.
       File transfer protocol (FTP).
       Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP).
       Computer mail.

(the correct answer is huh?  Use FreeBSD.)


52. [H20] The commands necessary to communicate with a peripheral devices
are only known by the device driver subroutines.

       False
       True

(the correct answer is of course not, someone had to know them to program
it; you know that isn't what they want though...)




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