Chapter 1
Hardware and System Configuration

THE FOLLOWING COMPTIA LINUX+ EXAM OBJECTIVES ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:

•   1.1 Explain Linux boot process concepts.
  • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms, and utilities:
    • Boot loaders such as GRUB and GRUB2
    • Boot options such as UEFI/EFI, PXE, NFS, and booting from ISO and HTTP/FTP
    • /etc/default/grub
    • /etc/grub2.cfg
    • /boot
    • mkinitrd
    • dracut
    • grub2-install
    • grub2-mkconfig
    • initramfs
    • linux.efi
    • vmlinuz
    • vmlinux
•   1.2 Given a scenario, install, configure, and monitor kernel modules
  • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms, and utilities:
    • lsmod
    • insmod
    • modprobe
    • dmesg
    • rmmod
    • depmod
    • /usr/lib/[kernelversion]
    • /usr/lib/modules
    • /etc/modprobe.conf
    • /etc/modprobe.d/
•   1.3 Given a scenario, configure and verify network connection parameters
  • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms, and utilities:
    • ping
    • netstat
    • nslookup
    • dig
    • host
    • route
    • ip
    • ethtool
    • ss
    • iwconfig
    • nmcli
    • brctl
    • nmtui...