Hello, and a big warm welcome to you to this Pluralsight course.
My name is Andrew Mallett, and I'd like to introduce you to
the CompTIA Linux+ XKO‑005 certification.
Now that's a bit of a mouthful, isn't it?
But welcome in any case. Here,
we're going to introduce to you both CompTIA, the organization,
as well as a little bit about the Linux+ exam.
So when you're sat comfortably, ready to begin with a hot
charge cup of coffee right in front of you,
we're going to take a look at CompTIA and Linux+.
So we'll be going through a little bit about who and what the CompTIA is,
the CompTIA exams, Linux+, and then the relationship with Linux and the
current DevOps environment. As we take a look at CompTIA,
the first thing to understand is probably you could say it anyway that
you want, so CompTIA or Comp T‑I‑A, but most people say CompTIA, the
Computer Technology Industry Association.
So yeah,
it's a trades association representing everybody and the big
companies involved in the computer industry. As we go through and
take a look at their certifications,
they are vendor agnostic, so they're not necessarily batting for Microsoft
or for Linux or for any particular Linux distribution.
So when we look inside the organization,
they work with technical certifications,
educational programs, writing advocacy elements for legislation,
working with community engagement, and making sure that they are really
part of the community and feeding back into the community.
They're based in Illinois, so their headquarters are in Chicago,
although, of course, they do have offices all over the world. Here,
they have an office in London in the UK.
And when we go back and look at their history of some of their exams,
they are really well founded, the A+ certification dating back to 1994.
When we go through and take a look at some of their certification exams,
it's not just geared around Linux+ or A+,
but when we look at this,
of course, includes A+, one of the original exams and certifications
gearing around making sure that people and people getting into the
industry do understand about the computer hardware. Server+, so we
understand a little bit about server operating systems and managing
servers in the corporate environment.
Network+ so we understand about our different network
hardware and network protocols.
When we look at Security+, this is something probably everybody in an
enterprise needs some awareness of security these days.
So very much Security+ is that entry‑level
certification as far as security is concerned.
But we can up it a little bit by taking a look at things like
the PenTest+, our pen, or penetration, testers. There are other
security certifications as well.
We're just going through some of them.
But of course, what we're focusing on here is Linux+, the Linux+ certification,
getting to know Linux and, again, not being tied to any
specific distribution, just learning Linux.
Now having done a little bit on our slides,
why don't we dive out not to our command line,
but let's see if we can fire up a browser so we can learn a little bit more about the organization and their certifications.