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Re:Not only coders are hard to recruit by marcosdumay on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:13AM (#12978072)
> an experienced sysadmin would solve in less than 3 minutes

Why do you think so? And, I'm hopping you don't rely on timing on this level.

An experienced sysadmin would have little experience with basic tasks, since he solves them around once or twice per job. And you never know the environments they tried it before, that may be completely different from what you are presenting them right now.

I'd say "installing X" is a test for encyclopedic knowledge, and a very unreliable test for expertize. That's the kind of test that gave bad names to IT certification at the early 2000's.

Re:Not only coders are hard to recruit by alexgotoi on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:23AM (#12978184)
What scenarios would you suggest to have?
Re:Not only coders are hard to recruit by marcosdumay on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:18PM (#12979339)
No idea, but the certificates that focused on those things became enduring jokes.