CompTIA
CompTIA Linux+
LINUX+ · Status not verified
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- Exam cost
- $369 USD (historical estimate)
- Questions · time · passing score
- Maximum of 90 questions, multiple-choice and performance-based, 90 minutes, passing score of 720 on a scale of 100-900
- Prerequisites
- 12 months of hands-on experience with Linux servers; recommended certifications: CompTIA A+, Network+, Server+
- Estimated salary premium
- 8000–8000 USD (historical estimate)
- Renewal requirements
- 3-year cycle · CPE/CEU requirement not verified
- Difficulty
- Not rated
Domains covered
- ** Configure and manage software
- storage
- processes
- and services
- Understand best practices for permissions and authentication
- firewalls
- and file management
- Create simple shell scripts and execute basic BASH scripts version control using Git and orchestration processes
- Analyze system properties and processes and troubleshoot user
- application
- and hardware issues
- System management (Linux basics
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