CompTIA Linux+: Exam XK0-004

Easy to understand, Lays everything out step-by-step great quizzes I’m still going through it so I haven’t taken my exam yet but this in a video course I’m working on really helped me understand the processes to prepare for the exam

At best, this might be an outline - remains to be seen when I take the test.Don't expect this to teach you Linux. If you use it, use it as an outline, and then be ready and able to study the subject matter on your own, with on-line resources, other books, man pages, and your Linux terminal in front of you.The style is incompetent - highly superficial and anecdotal in much of what it covers; ridiculous - "The best thing about [xargs] is that you sound like a pirate when you pronounce it..."; and outright (didactically) incompetent - like the introduction to hard links (pp57) (which ironically is introduced with the caveat that "many people are confused about hard links" - right, including the authors and anybody who might try to learn this subject from them).Command substitution is never called that. Instead, you "..put the command to execute in parentheses and precede it with a dollar sign." And later on, as the "$()" method." Which is technically not wrong, but do you talk about driving a car as "sitting down on a seat in a plastic or metal box with doors and windows and wheels, putting your foot on a pedal that goes in and out, and your hands on a round thing that can turn clockwise and counter-clockwise"? Would you trust somebody like that to teach you how to drive a car? Right!If you want to actually learn Linux, look for other resources - like "The Linux Command Line" by William Shotts, Jr., which is an excellent starting point (including for hard links).Use this book at best as a guide to the exam, and then go learn Linux on your own. I've made myself work through the first 100 pages; let's see how much longer I can endure this.

This book is full of misinformation. PWD does not stand for present working directory. PWD stands for Print Working Directory. The -v switch when used with mkdir does not stand for verification. The -v means verbose. Did you even research any of this before printing this book?

I'm still using it so I have no opinion either way, but it looks great! Haha

After a few months of trying a hands-on approach to learning Linux, I decided to purchase this as a supplemental learning tool. And it became the opposite! The guide became the primary. With in-depth information; easy to understand terminology; and real world examples! It is undeniably worth it!

I have this Study Guide and I am very unhappy with it. There is a lot of information within this book, however if you are like me, where you want a book to guide you through learning Linux so you can take this exam.THIS IS NOT THE BOOK.Christine used lots of examples to explain commands but there are few of them you can follow. The reason why that is because she is using her own directory and file structure that is on her Linux computer. For me to be able to follow along I would first need to create her directory and all the files under her account on my VirtualBox VM.After 4 chapters of this book, I just gave up. I want to learn the Linux commands not have to create a user called Christine then create all her directories and files that she uses to perform all the examples. Sybex missed the boat on releasing this book. It needs to be done over!! Here is a tip, used files that are already in Linux, or create new files and directories the user can used and follow to learn from. Learning is by doing.

Used this as one of my review materials and I am happy with the content and the online practice tests that came with it. Thumbs up!

Passed XK0-004 with help of this book. You do need to be pretty proficient with scripting. The performance portion of the exam is very hard for me, and I consider myself to be above average with Linux.

The book has a distinctive religious component which I very much do not appreciate being duped into paying for. If you do not happen to share the author's specific religion you may want to reconsider. It is a Linux book man, not a soapbox.

good book but nearly a 1000 pages and you need to learn several different linux distros but well written,just take your time

The book is quite extensive in contents.