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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

Installing a Linux distribution as a fresh installation

Working within a LiveCD is fine when we just want to do some administrative tasks. For this, we can install a Linux distribution as a full installation; in that, we install Linux on a hard disk. To continue from the LiveCD demo, we will use the Install Ubuntu... option on the desktop to perform a fresh installation. This will present the following setup:

  1. From here, we then have to select the language with which setup will continue. There is a wide range of languages to choose from. In our case, we will accept the default, English, and select Continue:
  1. Now we have options to download updates during installation and/or install third-party software for graphics and so on. For this section, you will need an active internet connection; the reason being, the system will go out and download the most recent updates which have...