Textbook in PDF format Eckert's CompTIA Linux+ and LPIC-1. Guide to Linux Certification, 7th Edition, equips learners for success on CompTIA's Linux+ (XKO-006) and the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 (101-500 and 102-500) certification exams, as well as in their IT careers. Content includes the latest Linux distributions, as well as virtualization, containerization, cloud orchestration, configuration management (CM), and enterprise storage. Coverage also addresses artificial intelligence (AI) and automation tools, and essential job-related services and cloud technologies, like firewalls, FTP, NFS, Samba, Apache, Nginx, DNS, DHCP, NTP, PTP, Postfix, PostgreSQL, SSH, VNC, RDP, Docker, Kubernetes, and Ansible. Appendices provide opportunities for learners to transfer their Linux skills to macOS and FreeBSD, and to apply their scripting knowledge using Python. Hands-on projects using the latest Fedora(TM) and Ubuntu Linux distributions offer practice with either Windows PC (Intel or ARM) or macOS PC (Intel or Apple Silicon)