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CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide

By : Philip Inshanally
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CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide

By: Philip Inshanally

Overview of this book

The Linux+ certification provides a broad awareness of Linux operating systems, while giving professionals an upper hand in the IT industry. With this certification, you’ll be equipped with the all-important knowledge of installation, operation, administration, and troubleshooting services. This CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide will give you an overview of the system architecture. You’ll understand how to install and uninstall Linux distributions, followed by working with various package managers. You’ll then move on to manipulating files and processes at the command-line interface (CLI) and creating, monitoring, killing, restarting, and modifying processes. As you progress, you’ll be equipped to work with display managers and learn how you can create, modify, and remove user accounts and groups, as well as understand how to automate tasks. The last set of chapters will help you configure dates and set up local and remote system logging. In addition to this, you’ll explore different internet protocols, and delve into network configuration, security administration, Shell scripting, and SQL management. By the end of this book, you’ll not only have got to grips with all the modules you need to study for the LX0-103 and LX0-104 certification exams, but you’ll also be able to test your understanding with practice questions and mock exams.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Mock Exam - 1
20
Mock Exam - 2

Summary

In this chapter, we focused on hardware settings, looking at the CPU, RAM, and swap information in the various directories. We used a variety of commands. Also, we touched on IRQs and the various interrupts available in a Linux system. We then looked at devices, in the context of files. Finally, we worked with modules. We saw the various modules currently available in a Linux system, and learned the steps to install and remove a module.

In the next chapter, we will focus on the process of booting the system. Moreover, the various boot managers will be covered. This is another critical aspect for every Linux engineer to get to grips with. Simply put, without a boot manager, the system won't be able to boot unless we boot off some form of media. Gaining the knowledge will put you, as a Linux engineer, ahead of other so-called engineers. You will be at a greater advantage regarding certification after completing the next chapter.