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Taken from the CompTIA IT Fundamentals Exam Guide book (2nd edition, published 2021). I'm not sure if they fixed this in newer versions, if at all.

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[–] Ocelot@lemmies.world 294 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

These textbooks are trash and written by morons. When I was in college one of the required books said very clearly that sleep and hibernate are exactly the same thing. It said that both suspended to RAM and hibernate was just some lower power version of sleep. It was even a question on an exam that I got wrong for some reason. I argued with the professor about it and proved to him thats not the case by taking one of the lab computers, hibernating it, physically taking the ram out and swapping it with another computer and resuming into the same state on power on. He said “Well thats what it says in the textbook so I have to mark it wrong”

It really highlights that there are probably a lot of other inaccuracies that I didn’t notice. This is the standard of education nowadays.

[–] schmensch@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my country, the vast majority.

Here professors are so underpaid, that anyone with an IQ above 75 is doing something else.

[–] notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

America or post-soviet

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