> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://linux-plus.ipoint-labs.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Welcome

> Intellectual Point CompTIA Linux+ training.

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You are here for **CompTIA Linux+ (XK0-006)**. Fifteen domains, 42 hands-on labs, then you sit the exam. The CompTIA decks live in this portal. The labs run in the IP Lab Portal. Graded homework goes to MyIP Portal, not here.

## What you'll walk away with

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      <span className="obj-item__lead">How Linux is put together</span>
      <span className="obj-item__detail">The shell, the filesystem hierarchy, processes, and permissions. You need this before any command will stick.</span>
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      <span className="obj-item__lead">All fifteen exam domains</span>
      <span className="obj-item__detail">We run CompTIA's own decks in CompTIA's own order, from Identifying Basic Linux Concepts through Automating Infrastructure Management.</span>
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      <span className="obj-item__detail">Live Labs on real machines, Applied Live Labs that pull a whole domain together, and Challenge Live Labs with no hand-holding. Reading one is not the same as running it.</span>
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      <span className="obj-item__detail">Use them to find the holes. Do not treat a passing mock as a reason to skip a domain.</span>
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      <span className="obj-item__lead">Homework in MyIP Portal</span>
      <span className="obj-item__detail">Exam Edge and other homework are submitted in MyIP Portal. This portal does not take that homework.</span>
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      <span className="obj-item__lead">Skills that outlast the cert</span>
      <span className="obj-item__detail">Users, services, storage, networking, and logs on a real machine. The same work whether the box is on a desk or in a cloud.</span>
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## What is in this portal

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      <span className="obj-item__lead">Domain Material</span>
      <span className="obj-item__detail">The first page under each domain. It is the CompTIA instructor deck, embedded as slides — arrow keys or the on-screen controls to move, and a fullscreen button for the back of the room.</span>
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      <span className="obj-item__detail">Everything under Domain Material is a lab, listed in the order the course runs them. Each page carries one button that opens that exact lab in the IP Lab Portal. The steps themselves live there, not here.</span>
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      <span className="obj-item__detail">One page per cohort in the sidebar. Find yours — evening, weekday, or weekend — for the running order and the Exam Edge due dates.</span>
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## Who is it for?

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    <span>Engineers</span>
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    <img src="https://mintcdn.com/ip-linux-plus-training/8etSiHQ8EveryB6p/images/avatars/admin.svg?fit=max&auto=format&n=8etSiHQ8EveryB6p&q=85&s=adba3fe2e0d7bfaa2a0b123595dd0e96" alt="System administrator avatar" noZoom width="360" height="360" data-path="images/avatars/admin.svg" />

    <span>Sysadmins</span>
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    <img src="https://mintcdn.com/ip-linux-plus-training/8etSiHQ8EveryB6p/images/avatars/operator.svg?fit=max&auto=format&n=8etSiHQ8EveryB6p&q=85&s=3b0fd0ea63acb380d5b93341db34c4d6" alt="DevOps avatar" noZoom width="360" height="360" data-path="images/avatars/operator.svg" />

    <span>DevOps</span>
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    <img src="https://mintcdn.com/ip-linux-plus-training/8etSiHQ8EveryB6p/images/avatars/builder.svg?fit=max&auto=format&n=8etSiHQ8EveryB6p&q=85&s=fa1fcc6d59c82181f36ea44ff0f968a3" alt="Support technician avatar" noZoom width="360" height="360" data-path="images/avatars/builder.svg" />

    <span>Support techs</span>
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    <img src="https://mintcdn.com/ip-linux-plus-training/8etSiHQ8EveryB6p/images/avatars/analyst.svg?fit=max&auto=format&n=8etSiHQ8EveryB6p&q=85&s=d26b660a26d06f750b7209b70cbb3f14" alt="Security analyst avatar" noZoom width="360" height="360" data-path="images/avatars/analyst.svg" />

    <span>Security analysts</span>
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    <img src="https://mintcdn.com/ip-linux-plus-training/8etSiHQ8EveryB6p/images/avatars/knowledge.svg?fit=max&auto=format&n=8etSiHQ8EveryB6p&q=85&s=5b5a569c55709f8d140f6549053ef6bf" alt="Software engineer avatar" noZoom width="360" height="360" data-path="images/avatars/knowledge.svg" />

    <span>Software engineers</span>
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    <img src="https://mintcdn.com/ip-linux-plus-training/8etSiHQ8EveryB6p/images/avatars/finance.svg?fit=max&auto=format&n=8etSiHQ8EveryB6p&q=85&s=7d4c1e3cc8882d1240319f18ee640d2f" alt="Developer avatar" noZoom width="360" height="360" data-path="images/avatars/finance.svg" />

    <span>Developers</span>
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    <div className="who-bracket__label"><strong>80%</strong> of who it's for</div>
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    <div className="who-bracket__label"><strong>20%</strong> of who it's for</div>
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Most of the room administers systems already. If you write application code and need the cert, you will keep up.

## Ground rules

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    <span className="rule-card__title">No question is too dumb</span>
    <span className="rule-card__text">If you are wondering it, three other people in the room are too. Ask.</span>
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    <span className="rule-card__title">Interrupt me whenever</span>
    <span className="rule-card__text">This is a workshop, not a webinar. Stop me the moment something does not click.</span>
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    <span className="rule-card__title">Do the labs</span>
    <span className="rule-card__text">Reading is not the same as typing. There are 42 of them in the IP Lab Portal. Submit homework in MyIP Portal.</span>
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## How to move through the material

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    <span className="move-flow__num">01</span>
    <span className="move-flow__title">Find your cohort</span>
    <span className="move-flow__text">Evening, weekday, and weekend groups run the same material on different days. Open the Study Plan section in the sidebar and use the page for your class.</span>
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    <span className="move-flow__title">Slides in class</span>
    <span className="move-flow__text">We walk the domains in order, one deck at a time. Your instructor sets the pace and you take notes.</span>
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    <span className="move-flow__title">Labs in the IP Lab Portal</span>
    <span className="move-flow__text">When we hit a lab, the talking stops. Open the lab page, hit the button, launch it, do the work.</span>
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    <span className="move-flow__title">Mocks, then the exam</span>
    <span className="move-flow__text">The last sessions are revision and two full mocks. Sit Linux+ while the material is still fresh.</span>
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Sidebar labels stay short. Open the page for the full lesson title.