Linux Administrator Street Smarts: A Real World Guide to Linux Certification Skills
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Description
Hit the ground running with the street-smart training you'll find in this practical book. Using a "year in the life" approach, it gives you an inside look at Linux administration, with key information organized around the actual day-to-day tasks, scenarios, and challenges you'll face in the field. This valuable training tool is loaded with hands-on, step-by-step exercises covering all phases of Linux administration, including:
Working on the command line
Configuring hardware and the kernel
Managing software and processes
Documenting the system
Working with partitions and file systems
Configuring network features
Managing security
An invaluable study tool
This no-nonsense book also maps to the common tasks and exam objectives for the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) LPIC-1 certification exam and CompTIA's Linux certification exam. So whether you're preparing for certification or seeking practical skills to break into the field, you'll find the instruction you need, such as:
Using the command shell history
Redirecting input and output
Resolving hardware conflicts
Reconfiguring the login screen
Managing RPM and Debian packages
Protecting your system from runaway processes
Monitoring your system for degraded performance and security problems
Using journaling filesystems
Configuring common server software
The Street Smarts Series is designed to help current or aspiring IT professionals put their certification to work for them. Full of practical, real world scenarios, each book features actual tasks from the field and then offers step-by-step exercises that teach the skills necessary to complete those tasks. And because the exercises are based upon exam objectives from leading technology certifications, each Street Smarts book can be used as a lab manual for certification prep |
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