Chapter 1

Understanding Linux Fundamentals

This chapter covers the following topics:

The exam objective covered in this chapter is as follows:

  • Objective 1.1: Summarize Linux fundamentals

Linux is a great operating system, useful for a large variety of tasks and replete with a lot of tweakable and configurable options, although some of them are not well documented or easy to understand.

Using Linux is like buying a car off the car dealer’s lot, if you just start it up and drive it, it’s pretty simple, just avoid crashing and keep the fluids full and you’ll ...

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