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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

Working with the XDM

The XDM manages a collection of X servers. This could either be locally on the system or remotely on another X server on a network. The XDM utility is somewhat similar in nature to the older SysVinit, so you may be wondering about the concept of an X server. An X server is a program in the X Window system; it runs locally on the machine. It usually manages access to the graphics cards, displays, and interaction with the keyboard and mouse on the local machine. So what is an X Window system? Well, an X Window system , commonly called X, is an entire suite that is made up of a cross-platform, free client-server infrastructure for managing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) on a single or a range of computers, as is the case in networking environments. In the context of X, the way that the client/server works is a bit odd; an X server runs on each local machine...