What Is Covered in This Book

This book is divided into four chapters. Each of the first three chapters builds on the ones that have come before it. You are presented with a case and some tasks to perform without any direction on how to accomplish those tasks. The fourth chapter walks through all the preceding exercises and shows one solution to each.

Chapter 1, "Novell Linux Desktop 9," offers 15 exercises using the Novell Linux Desktop. No other operating system or software is required, and you need only have a mastery of this NOS in order to work through these.

Chapter 2, "SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9," offers 30 exercises of intermediate difficulty using SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES). These cases are roughly equivalent to the practicums you would encounter during the CLP exam.

Chapter 3, "Advanced SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9," offers 30 exercises of greater difficulty using SLES. These cases are roughly equivalent to those you would encounter as practicums during the CLE exam.

Chapter 4, "Solutions to Exercises," walks through each of the exercises in the first three chapters and shows how to solve them. It is important to know that with Linux there are often multiple ways to arrive at the same solution, and each lab shows but one. Read through the solutions here if you do not know how to solve the exercises and even if you do, as it might provoke you to thinking through the answer to a predicament in a different way and that will always come in handy at some point in your future.