100% CLP Result
I sat my Novell Certified Linux Professional exam today and scored 100%!
Novell, it would appear, have finally got their act together and fixed up their exam. I wonder if this would have been a result from what I would assume to be heaps of complaints and exam result contests.. This time around I got a compeltely different exam, which was GREAT to see. I would have felt a bit put off if I had received the same exam objectives again.
The best part of the exam improvements was that the objectives were VERY clear in what it needed you to do. There was even a section where it indicated exactly what config file I had to create and/or modify to achieve part of the objective. The file in this instance was unfortunately one of the ones that YaST creates which I was a little dissapointed with, especially when the Novell practicum web site stated that it didn’t matter how you achieve the result as long as the objective was completed. The additions and changes that had to be done to the config could have been equally valid in an alternate config file than the one that YaST creates while still achieving the same result. This is likely to explain why almost everyone I know who had done the earlier CLP exams had failed or almost failed on objectives requiring config changes when the objectives did not explicitlly indicate that it had to be the YaST specific file, not the generally accepted configs..
At least now the exam was quite good. I did however feel that the exam was rather lame, I didn’t feel challenged at all. Not that I really expected to be challenged with this low end exam to begin with.. I was more concerned about having to try and decypher what the objectives actually wanted me to do as the earlier exams were extremely vague. Now I have slightly more interest in actually doing the Novell Certified Linux Engineer (CLE).
Now I just have to try and maintain my 100% pass results. First 100% was with my RHCE and now 100% for my CLP.. 
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