CompTIA Linux+ Study Guide: Exam XK0-004 4th Edition, Kindle Edition

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.

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!

This book doesn't explain the exam objectives in an easily understandable way. Some file locations from the exam objectives are barely mentioned. The purpose of the book is to prepare you for the exam and maybe it can, but not in an easy to digest way. I would definitely go for another book if there were any available right now. I guess it makes sense that this was the first book released. It wasn't edited for usability. They just wanted to get there first.

I'm using this book in conjunction with video training and lab work.The online resources? Yea, they don't work out of the box. I've signed up and registered the book, got access to the online flashcards and quizzes - and cant' create either as neither is showing *any* materials despite selecting all objectives. I've opened a case with Wiley already, so we'll see what they say.Note: I'll re-review if and when the issues with web content are resolved.

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.

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.

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!

Totally agree with someone who said "This book doesn't explain the exam objectives in an easily understandable way. Some file locations from the exam objectives are barely mentioned. The purpose of the book is to prepare you for the exam and maybe it can, but not in an easy to digest way". But the pain doesn't stop there, the coupon it's a lie. I waited for weeks to grant access from the website and redeem my coupon, but it never works. i was trying in the morning and at night, but never succeeded. Shame on this, because i bought this book for the voucher discount and never worked. BE CAREFUL if you buy for the same reason.

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.