LPIC-1/CompTIA Linux+ Certification All-In-One Exam Guide (All-In-One (McGraw Hill))

Prior to this book, I was a complete neophyte in regards to Linux. Like most Windows veterans, I knew of, but didn't know Linux. Having read Mr Tracy's book cover to cover, I'm comfortable with my knowledge of Linux now. I'm far from being an expert, but this book really gave me the basics of how to work with Linux. If that was the only purpose of this book, then it would easily receive 5 stars. Mr Tracy's approach is to assume that the reader knows absolutely nothing about Linux, so he starts from basics and works his way towards more and more advanced information. As such, this is a great way to learn about Linux.However, as stated in the title of the book, the primary purpose here is to prepare the reader for the Linux + exams. This is where Mr Tracy is less effective. While I definitely learned the basics, it was the various practice exams I found online that truly prepared me for the test. If I had relied solely on this book, I most definitely would have failed the exam.So, 5 stars for being a great tool for teaching me the basic concepts. And 2 stars for preparing me for the actual test. I will say that I'm willing to give Mr Tracy some benefit of the doubt, since CompTIA is notorious for constantly changing and evolving their tests, so any given book will be lacking in some regard. Also, its worth pointing out that Mr Tracy's 2 page explanation of the OSI Model is vastly superior to the entire chapter devoted to the topic in the Network + book.

Robb Tracy is a fantastic technical writer who is capable of taking an incredibly dull and dense topic such as Linux fundamentals and make it humorous and exciting to read. Be warned though, this is NOT really an introductory text on Linux. Yes, it covers the basics such as installing Linux, managing the GRUB loader, command line tools, etc, but he does assume a certain level of familiarity and as such moves very quickly through these topics. If you are brand new to Linux, I would recommend a title not geared necessarily towards certification (I found that "How Linux Works" by No Starch Press was a wonderful introductory text).

I bought this book1) because it had the latest publishing date and I figured that it would more accurately reflect the latest CompTIA Linux+ exams and2) because the books similar to the ones I used to study for the Security+, Network+, and A+ exams were published either pre-2009 or had really bad reviews.I found this book to be very good for Linux study, but not so good for preparation for the Linux+ exam.I am not sure whether it is the exam's fault or the book. The exams only seemed to use about 10% of the really useful stuff you should know from the book, 50% of the more fringe stuff from the book that is not really highlighted in the text as much or even addressed in the practice exams, and 40% from stuff that is not even addressed in the book or was contradictory to what the book said.The biggest surprise was that the exam had several fill in the blanks, where the book's practice questions and exams have none and I don't recall any mention of fill in the blanks (could be wrong, but I was not prepared for that).The book did help, but I ended up going thru both exams 5 times and used all but 15 minutes on each test and was not sure at all that I would pass.I ended up with 610 and 620 on the exams, with passing being 500, but I had to really depend on my actual Linux experience (which was a little rusty) as much or more than what I got out of the book.This book is probably better than what else is available, but it could do a much better job of preparing someone for the exams.

Excellent quality, coverage and it is very easy to read.You dont need any other source to learn to comptia certification linux+.But remember to read all the book before take any exam. It is not well divided and some informations are thrown inside later chaps.Obs I: no book can lead u to any linux certification if u dont use or work with these technologies.Obs II: The cover is excellent! Easy to carry in any bag.

Great resource material

There are several reasons for which I would not recommend this book, let's enumerate them:- First, it doesn't follow any order of the Linux+ exams, other editorial divide the book in first exam subjects and then second exam subjects, in this one everything is mixed.- Too much useless redundant information or personal about the author, like that he's not good memorizing things or that he loves rsync utility to make a mirror of his own computer, or that he prefer SUSE...something really annoying in the whole book for having too much references to SuSe tools like YaST that has no relation with the CompTIA/LPI exam.- If you just summarize the entire book in the useful information for the exam, you will have less than 50 pages (the proof is that I already did it).- Has strong lack of objectives of the exam, and even basic question as the immutable flag in files that doesn't appear. The chapter about VI, among others, is so huge in useless content and lack of useful ones that in the exam you will feel scammed when you have questions like "how to copy 16 lines of a text file with a command in vi from the line in which the cursor is?".- The exam has lots of no options questions, like "write the command with which you can do exactly THIS task" and you have to write with no faults the command. THE BOOK doesn't say that.- The companion CD has an amazing exam to be runned ON WINDOWS? Hello?I first did the A+ exam studying with another editorial and I was feeling, I AM feeling like the wikipedia of the A+ because the books were amazing (they're being sold here, three books in a pack, no more tips). After wasting my money to study the Linux+ with this exam and passing the first one with a score of just 540 because most of the questions weren't in the book, I 've just cancelled the second exam appointment, I've thrown away this book, and buy GOOD ones with another editorial, the same one I used to learn the A+.That's my recommendation. Thanks.

This is the best book out there for LPIC-1 cert! The price is great and the content is perfect! You will not regret getting this.

It's a very good book. Really complete but you must know OpenSUSE to do the practice into the book. But it's not really bad at all.