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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Eleventh Edition (Exams 220-1101 & 220-1102), 11th Edition

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Copyright © 2023 by McGraw Hill. All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-26-461015-0
MHID: 1-26-461015-7

This bestselling on-the-job reference and test preparation guide has been fully revised for new 2022 exam objectives

This highly effective self-study exam guide has been thoroughly updated to cover 100% of the topics covered on the latest version of the exam. This new edition includes expanded coverage of mobile computing, cloud and virtualization services, Windows 10, Linux, enhanced security, and advanced software troubleshooting procedures.

CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Eleventh Edition (Exam 220-1101 & 220-1102) enables you to take the test with complete confidence. In keeping with the All-In-One philosophy, the book serves both as an exam guide and as a practical reference for IT support and technical personnel. Online content includes 200 accurate practice questions, sample Mike Meyers training videos, sample TotalSim interactive lab simulations, Mike’s favorite PC hardware Cool Tools, and a searchable PDF glossary.

  • Online content includes 200 practice questions, sample video training featuring Mike Meyers, sample Total Sim interactive lab simulations, and a searchable PDF glossary
  • Contains a coupon for 10% off of the exam fee—a $46 value
  • Written by experienced trainer Scott Jernigan and edited by training guru Mike Meyers

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Grafana

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Grafana is a multi-platform open-source analytics and interactive visualization web application. It can produce charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources.

As a visualization tool, Grafana can be used as a component in monitoring stacks, often in combination with time series databases such as InfluxDB, Prometheus and Graphite; monitoring platforms such as Sensu, Icinga, Checkmk, Zabbix, Netdata, and PRTG; SIEMs such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and Splunk; and other data sources. The Grafana user interface was originally based on version 3 of Kibana.

https://grafana.com

Reference

Grafana. (2025, January 8). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafana

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Cassandra

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Cassandra is a NoSQL database. It is a database management system designed for use with large volumes of data across multiple computers. It prioritizes availability and scalability. It is well suited to systems with high write requirements. Cassandra is maintained by Apache.

Data Model Comparison

FeatureCassandraRDBMS
OrganizationKeyspace → Table → RowDatabase → Table → Row
Row StructureDynamic columnsFixed schema
Column DataName, type, value, timestampName, type, value
Schema ChangesRuntime modificationsUsually requires downtime
Data ModelDenormalizedNormalized with JOINs
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Cassandra
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PowerShell Cookbook, 4th Edition

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Copyright © 2021 Lee Holmes. All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-098-10160-2

Online Searchable Edition: https://www.powershellcookbook.com
GitHub: https://github.com/LeeHolmes/PowerShellCookbook

How do you use PowerShell to navigate the filesystem, manage files and folders, or retrieve a web page? This introduction to the PowerShell language and scripting environment provides more than 400 task-oriented recipes to help you solve all kinds of problems. Intermediate to advanced system administrators will find more than 100 tried-and-tested scripts they can copy and use immediately.

Updated for PowerShell 5.1 and Open Source PowerShell up to 7.0 and beyond, this comprehensive cookbook includes hands-on recipes for common tasks and administrative jobs that you can apply whether you’re on the client or server version of Windows. You also get quick references to technologies used in conjunction with PowerShell, including regular expressions, the XPath language, format specifiers, and frequently referenced .NET, COM, and WMI classes.

  • Learn how to use PowerShell on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019
  • Tour PowerShell’s core features, including the command model, object-based pipeline, and ubiquitous scripting
  • Master fundamentals such as the interactive shell, pipeline, and object concepts
  • Perform common tasks that involve working with files, internet-connected scripts, user interaction, and more
  • Solve tasks in systems and enterprise management, such as working with Active Directory and the filesystem
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Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook – Second Edition

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Copyright © 2022 Packt Publishing

ISBN 978-1-80324-691-8

Discover practical recipes to help you efficiently monitor enterprise IT infrastructure for Microsoft Windows, Linux, networking, and more

Key Features

  • Find out how you can leverage some of the most exciting features of Zabbix 6
  • Perform professional IT infrastructure and application monitoring on multiple platforms
  • Discover easy-to-follow, practical solutions to problems in network monitoring with Zabbix

Book Description

This updated second edition of the Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook brings you new recipes, updated with Zabbix 6 functionality. You’ll learn how to set up Zabbix with built-in high availability, use the improved Business Service Monitoring, set up automatic reporting, and create advanced triggers. Zabbix offers useful insights into your infrastructure performance and issues and enables you to enhance your monitoring setup with its powerful features. This book covers hands-on, easy-to-follow recipes for using Zabbix 6 to monitor effectively the performance of devices and applications over the network.

You’ll start by working your way through the installation and most prominent features of Zabbix and make the right design choices for building a scalable and easily manageable environment. This Zabbix book contains recipes for building items and triggers for different types of monitoring, building templates, and using Zabbix proxies. Next, you’ll use the Zabbix API for customization and manage your Zabbix server and database efficiently. Finally, you’ll find quick solutions to the common and not-so-common problems that you may encounter in your Zabbix monitoring work.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use Zabbix for all your monitoring needs and build a solid Zabbix setup by leveraging its key functionalities.

What you will learn

  • Implement your high-availability Zabbix setup
  • Build templates and explore the different types of monitoring available in Zabbix 6
  • Use Zabbix proxies to scale your environment effectively
  • Work with custom integrations and the Zabbix API
  • Set up advanced triggers and effective alerting
  • Maintain your Zabbix setup for scaling, backups, and upgrades
  • Discover how to perform advanced Zabbix database management
  • Monitor cloud-based products such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Docker

Who this book is for

This book is for IT engineers who want to get started with Zabbix and anyone with an intermediate-level understanding of Zabbix looking to extend their knowledge. Although not necessary, prior experience with Zabbix will help you to make the most of this book.