Description: This test in concentrated on most important Linux/UNIX scripting tools, techniques and best practices.
Intended audience: This is a designed to evaluate an effective scripting skills and familiarity with well known scripting techniques. If scripting is a requirement, this test will provide very clear outlook of one's experience and scripting abilities.
Complexity (on a scale from 1 to 10): 6.
This test does not subject an examinee to any complex subjects. However this test requires actual scripting experience and good understanding of scripting languages, process and methods. This exam is not a challenge to an experienced Bash, K-shell or Perl script programmer.
Exam Theme:
Typical scripting tasks, bash, k-shell, language components, std input-output, pipes, variables, conditionals, loops, functions, typical uses, debugging skills, code quality
perl common uses, date and time, debugging, hashes, modules and packages, references, regular expressions, optimization, scoping and variables, typical uses, code quality
