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| Linux Administrator Street Smarts: A Real World Guide to Linux Certification Skills | 
 enlarge | Author: Roderick W. Smith
Publisher: Sybex
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 329265
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 335
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0470083484
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.432
EAN: 9780470083482
ASIN: 0470083484
Publication Date: October 30, 2006
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Product Description
Develop the skills you need in the real world
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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 a bit pedestrian but worth every penny April 18, 2007
This is one of the best beginning linux books I have ever seen. Having said that, I wouldn't trust this book alone as a single resource for any test. Mr. Smith uses a fantastic pedagogical style throughout the book that makes the toughest linux/ UNIX concepts fun and easy to understand. I heartily recommend this book to any person wishing to know more about linux in general, even if they have grown up in the windows world.
On the downside, this book does try to "re-invent the wheel" by presenting an all-encompassing book of linux commands and progs. O'Reilly's /*Linux in a Nutshell*/, /*Using Red Hat Linux*/, and */Using Debian*/ all performed that function better than this a long time ago. The "Linux Beginner's Handbook" is also an important book [...] that this one valiantly attempts to replace.
Still, I cannot get over the fact that Mr. Smith is a good teacher and a very gifted writer. The format is accessible and tye book leaves the reader feeling smart and capable as opposed to confused or frustrated. This is what computer books ought to be.
I gave it three stars because there is no substitute for years of work in on UNIX or linux mainframe. In those cases, a good pocket reference from O'Reilly was what we used.
I think that this book does deserve a place among the great linux documents written since 1993
 A perfect class on Linux December 30, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This Book is a great book if you are looking for a class on Linux. It is easy to read and the instructions are great. It is more of a hands on work book then an actual book to read.
Although the subject matter is not the most advanced and sometimes the tasks are oversimplified it does help one prepare for certification or teach them basic linux skills well. That after all is what this book claims to be. If you complete all the tasks you will be well on your way to knowing linux although it can take a while.
If your looking to for a book that will build you linux skills then this is a must have for your libary.
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