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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)
19
Mock Exam - 1
20
Mock Exam - 2

Summary

In this chapter, we configured IPv4, IPv6 configuration, client-side DNS and network troubleshooting. First, we worked with IPv4, and we looked at various ways with which we would manage IPv4 addressing. Next, we covered IPv4 routing; we saw how we would add a default route in addition to adding static routes for subnets not directly connected. This was then followed with IPv6 configuration; we saw how we would manage our IPv6 infrastructure using various tools available via the command line. Following this, we looked at configuring routing for IPv6, particularly focusing on default routes and static routes for subnets not directly connected. Next, we covered client-side DNS. We looked at ways of configuring the DNS servers' IP addressing. We then tested our DNS configuration by browsing out to the internet. Finally, we covered network troubleshooting; we covered...