A good read, concise and detailed enough to start

I found this book had alot of useful material and little filler. The book provides useful commands and common examples for using those commands without filling it with a bunch of man pages like some books. It also gives some key tips that will be helpful to any system administrator. I thought there should have been more information on system services like apache or mailsend, but maybe those won't be really covered much on the exam.

The questions at the end of the chapter, as mentioned by other users, aren't very useful, so you'll likely need to test yourself with other resources.

Don't be fooled by some reviewers who try to dispute the book with petty inconsistencies. They often are more interested in sounding like they have been diehard linux users all their life than actually giving any reliable feedback.

Pros: good coverage of cli commands, concise information without filler, useful tips that help you become a system administrator.

Cons: bad end of chapter questions, somewhat disorganized in the way the content is presented.

Other Reviews

• Good for understanding the Guts
• You will need another book in addition to this to pass
• Not enough to pass the test
• A good read, concise and detailed enough to start
• Good book for a Linux+ cert