22 Jun
2004
22 Jun
'04
11:42 p.m.
On 23 Jun 2004, at 07:20, Fred Cisin wrote:
Huw Davies | e-mail:
Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au
Melbourne | "If soccer was meant to be played in the
Australia | air, the sky would be painted green"
I don't like to test memory.
My tests are all open book - they don't need to write anything on their
shirtsleeves.
open notes - they don't need to write anything in the margins of the
book.
Couldn't agree more. In "real life" you normally have access to
books/manuals/notes
when doing things. Last year I did some HP examinations for ASE
qualifications for
OpenVMS. One of the questions required the SRM commands to set up hard
partitions
in a multi-CPU Alpha system - this had to be done from memory and
naturally I got this
wrong :-) Any engineer who sat down to do this on my Alpha box
without referring to the manual would more than likely be shown the
door - this isn't
something that you do frequently enough to do from memory and there are
many
other examples like this.