CompTIA Linux+ Certification Kit: Exam XK0-005 2nd Edition

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While the content of the book has so far been appreciating? The topics discussed do not at all follow any flow. Not its own, nor any representation of the Enterprise. It is completely A.D.D. What I mean? Is take for example Chapter 1 - Preparing Your Environment. Here, would have been a great place to discuss and segue into popular imaging methods used by the person and enterprise, i.e. Preparing and loading the USB ISOs, covering the popular virtual software, to set up a guest OS, containers and the theory behind PXE imaging (since it will vary across organizations). Then, taking the two most likely to be used for setting up a training environment at home (USB loading and virtual software) and getting you setup. Instead, it brushes lightly on how to setup an OS at home, even shows you some update commands, then goes on to talk about servers for the next 10-15 pages. What? Why not lead into configuring your new environments? Email and the various methods and theory and methodology behind that and so on...from there, go into system management, since most industries using Linux distros are going to start at the hardware/ system management level as the entry level, as opposed to administrative/ cyber security/ networking or development positions, and teach people how to manage and troubleshoot devices, network and OS issues, view event logs...then we can go one to discuss servers, protocols and the like.The other problem here is I like to read before bed for about an hour or more. But I've been treating this book as if I was expected to be at a PC/ desk but, again, here I am having only setup my training space and updated my OS's and that was the last thing I'd do for the rest of the evening because? Again, I was reading about servers for the next hour. Then I went to bed. Give us some sort of queue, as to when actual exercises are involved. Say, in the chapter "It is recommended to be in your training environment for this chapter. We will be predominantly using Redhat-like distros in the following examples." Then actually have viable practices to follow, as opposed to just one or two lines. Apply them in practice. The problem is there may just be one or two lines covered, like using LS and CD and then nothing again for many pages--possibly the entire chapter, which is my third issue; not enough workshopping.I don't know... my wife argues that it's just a study guide to prepare for testing, to which I ask, "...why are the tests arranged this way then? There should be a flow. It should represent entry-level to intermediate topics and leading into more advanced topics and practices. That's how I want to study!" But my fear is if I just skip to the chapters in the order I want to read them in, to emulate this progression/ flow, things discussed in previous chapters wont link together well i.e. "in the last chapter we discussed [x] thing." I'll miss discussed topics in skipping around etc. So I guess I'll just have to learn about such things as servers and mySQL before I learn about the basic OS and just run before I learn to walk.I may not know much, but I've done help desk for 1 year, desktop support for going on 8 years, and server repair for 3 years, but? I have gotten a sense for how the enterprise is structured and where the starting points is and they don't begin with MySQL and servers/ server protocol. They start with learning the available tools and learning your environment. I think the CompTIA people need to job shadow different positions and spend a little more time at the basic desktop troubleshoot level, as that is where we determine whether something can be isolated and fixed in short order, or we just cheap-out, give up and re-image the PC and save production time for ourselves and the employee. That is where quick knowledge needs to be executed because everyone is operating on tight SLA timers, while these upper departments can hang on a ticket for a month with almost no reprimand. We're the ones trying to determine that what is causing the task bar menu to freeze is an outdated version of Cirix VDA, when, at first glance? It seemed OS related. Or that the GUI issues in Office turned out not to be video drivers/ a acceleration issue, nor a problem with the app itself upon clearing the cache files and reinstalling it, but rather? A profile corruption and that rebuilding it fixes the issue. So why not start with setup and system management?I'll keep reading but I really dislike reading things with no flow and starting in weird places. I don't doubt the information I need isn't largely there, it's just not in the place where you'd expect it to be. System management, for example, is spread across multiple chapters that are not in order to one another, something like chapters 5, 8, and 11. It would be like if someone very knowledgeable just spewed out all this information on paper and it just landed in random places and that's where you start to piece together you're 2400 piece jigsaw puzzle for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

Definitely need this. I thought I was quite knowledgeable on Lennox since I’m on my colleges cyber security team but this practice quiz here made me feel completely stupid like I don’t know what I’m doing. It’s a great review to help prepare you for the exam.

Average book ! Better take online courses along with lab to pass the exam at first sitting.