CompTIA Linux+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition (Exam XK0-005)

This was and is a good reference, not only for certification studying, but also for practical working knowledge.

Great read, great lab videos, easy to use VM image. All around awesome, glad I took a chance on this brand of books. Enjoyable reading material, not too boring, very engaging. The important information without the fluff.

For those into Linux

I liked how the author to prepare you to be a linux administrator instead of just giving you jus the necessary to pass the exam. I will definetely come back to it for review.

Item arrived on time and as described. Excellent!

This has helped my husband tremendously in the cyber field! He’s taking classes and this book has done the job great

Great book

Okay so the book doesn't give the best instructions to get the vm image you need. First, it's in the index but not under Virtual Machines. You need to register and log into the hub.totalsem.com, the link is in the "Signel User License terms and Conditions" section, along with your key. To import the image, which the instructions have wrong due to updates to the software, you need to just download Virtual box, default settings, and click File, import appliance, file (select your file, likely in downloads), next, ensure it says, "Include only NAT network adapter MAC addresses", and finish. You should be fine, else do it again and select "Generate new MAC." FYI I'm using Oracle Virtual Box 7.0. The instructions also mention Vmware workstation but avoid that like the plague and get virtualbox. The instructions are down a bit. For some reason they put vmware at the top. It would not be my choice at all. Although I would say use vmware if your company was okay with it on your work machine. Also, you'll need to have a CPU capable of virtualization I guess, so turn that on in the BIOS. I think for my AMD system it was SVM? Don't quote me on that. You may need to select advanced features, and it depends on your BIOS or EFI, etc. Check your booklet that came with the board, cpu, or laptop. Once it comes up, just do the usual and check a site with ping or curl. Happy studying kids. Bad rating for a bad start. Come on guys the basic stuff for getting the image is obscure.

On the inside cover, there is a coupon for 10% off the CompTIA exam price. However, it does not work in the EU. I have worked on small projects (web hosting, proxies, etc) in Linux for many years. I only learned what I needed and never dug into the system. This book filled in many gaps in my knowledge and made me a confident Linux user.

With this book, I passed the CompTIA Linux+ Exam.

Just what I wanted and more..