In general I usually do feel badly for making an obvious, mean spirited joke. So I apologize, for my earlier post about A, B, C and a #2 pencil.

What I will say in follow through are:

Welcome to LQ, please read the information which that link refers too.

Let me also back up the substance of that link by explaining how LQ does work, and is intended to work. Members of the forum, as you know, are not here as paid support, we do so to help encourage Linux knowledge acquisition through personal experience and individuals' own efforts. Therefore what we try to do, and not just my opinion, but really the intentions of this entire forum; are to guide and assist. We like to see people put forth work on their own, show their effort, so we can give them assistance to guide them towards a solution. And sure, if someone has a singular question, they'll likely get an answer.

Therefore what you've done is merely posted a large set of test questions. It's no way to learn. If you know the answers, then there's no need to post anything. If you largely know the answers, then a better thing to do is explain (as you have) that you're working on Linux certification, taking practice tests, and then post a much fewer set of questions and answers where you'd like a further explanation as to why the answer key says what it says. I can clearly understand that someone would be taking a practice test, the whole purpose of that practice test is to also tell you the answers, and that someone could be in a state where they disagree that it was a correct answer, so they need to learn more. In that case it would be a much more organized question, as well as a clear question.

This is not a "nerd challenge" situation where you post and we all then leap to answer and then get into tons of side arguments about each answer a'la dueling pocket protectors. Many can also chime in to tell you that their opinion is that getting a certification might be a waste of time. It is in my world, I've always done embedded Linux. I'd neither notice, nor care if you had alphabet soup on your resume citing tons of certifications, and I'd probably yawn (for real, not dramatic effect) if I had to sit there during an interview and listen to someone babble all about their certifications. Eventually I'd interrupt and try to change the subject and find out what they really know about embedded Linux. I used RedHat when it was .... just named RedHat? I don't know it was like 12-15 years ago (ballpark guess), back when you put it on 1, 2, 3, ... floppy disks. It wasn't called Fedora, but it was still free Linux, much like many of the distros they have today.

Words and terms are made up all the time, perhaps the reason myself and others don't know the term EA at all is because we don't have or need certifications. Seems the word Enterprise is used a lot in RedHat's paid for products, both Linux as well as their certifications. If that's the job you have and you feel that there can be hundreds of them this is fine. I've never encountered anyone who uses that title or those terms. The only thing I can draw upon is just the repetitive knowledge that someone in Linux uses the term Enterprise, it likely involves RHEL.

Your question is poorly written. However as much anti-certification as I am, if you were to do something like resubmit just your Question 1 and cite that the answer key tells you the correct answer is Choice 3, and follow up with some discussion that you felt this wasn't true. In that case I'd be happy to offer assistance and thoughts on this type of question, provided I had something helpful to say.

Once again, Welcome to the Forums. I hope that this initial experience hasn't tarnished your feelings about it too much.

I do find the forums useful.

Also, like you, upon entering forums like this anew, I do attempt to be respectful, my style is not to potentially patronize and call everyone Gurus, but instead to read some Q's and A's and then get an idea how each particular forum works.

Maybe consider that.

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