If you read this book, meditate on what you??™ve learned, and then practice the
skills and concepts you learned, using the Self Tests and Certification Exercises, you
will retain considerably more. When you practice, you exercise your brain, making
it easier to find and recall the information from your long-term memory. Then, if
you take what you know and apply it to an unencountered circumstance in the real
world, you ensure that the information is retained for a very long period of time.
The point is, don??™t just read this book and expect to remember everything. Utilize the
resources included in this book to help reinforce the ideas and skills you learn. Later in
this Introduction, we??™ll discuss test-preparation and test-taking strategies in more depth.
With this in mind, let??™s now spend some time familiarizing you with the Linux+
certification exam.
The Linux+ Certification Exam
Now that you understand how this book is organized, it??™s time for you to become
familiar with the Linux+ certification program and its associated exam. You need to
know the following:
?– About the Linux+ certification
?– Taking the Linux+ exam
?– Exam makeup
Introduction xxv
About the Linux+ Certi?¬? cation
The Linux+ certification is an excellent program! Linux+ is a vendor-neutral
certification designed and administered by the Computing Technology Industry
Association, affectionately known as CompTIA.
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