Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 22:44:50 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: me@freebsd.org Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security Ceritfication for individuals Message-ID: <3759FCC2.D2666FFE@softweyr.com> References: <19990605224422.A70789@consol.de>
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Michael Elbel wrote: > > In lists.freebsd.advocacy you write: > > >Wes Peters wrote: > [...] > >> http://www.tekmetrics.com/ (duh!) > [...] > > >If possible, I'd like for several of the -advocates to surf over there, > >look at the trial tests, and perhaps take the UNIX programmer or UNIX > >system administrator test as their free test, to get a feeling if this > >is something we'd like to pursue. > > >Of course, if I don't manage to score in the Master UNIX programmer > >range, their test is OBVIOUSLY flawed. ;^) > > I'd be astonished if You'd not. I managed to get a Master UNIX admin - > score 4.55 at half past eleven in the evening after 3 beers (german ones, > mind you :) My partner Jody took it this afternoon and scored 4.60 with his 3-year old twins running around his office. I scored 4.21 on the UNIX programmer test, even with one of the questions timing out while I was reading a man page. ;^) Not bad, considering I haven't done any termios programming in over 10 years. > I haven't tried the programmer test yet, but after looking at the admin > one, I'd say the sysem is ok but not top notch. A couple of the questions > weren't unambiguous, especially in the security area. I hate those "pick the best answer" questions, the scoring is so arbitrary. The test struck me as being quite good for a 40-question test, but I'd rather see more coverage of network I/O and less on terminal-related topics. I'm going to take a few more, including UNIX sysadmin, while they're still free. I would like to encourage a few more of the advocates to do so also, so we can get an idea of whether we want to pursue this as an avenue for advocacy or not. I'm certain they would be open to creating FreeBSD-specific versions of several of their exams, if we think it is worth putting our name on. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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