CompTIA Project+ PK0-004 – Managing the Project Procurement Part 2

5. Conducting procurements Once you have a procurement management plan, you’re ready to execute the procurement management plan. So this means that you create a plan and then you execute the plan. You do the plan, you actually conduct procurements. So this means that you’ll be obtaining seller responses. You’ll choose a seller to provide… Read More »

CompTIA Project+ PK0-004 – Managing the Project Procurement Part 1

1. Building or buying a solution? One of the things you’ll have to solve for in your exam and probably as a project manager in your organization is the determination of should you build it or should you buy it. So in this brief presentation, I’m going to show you a quick way to make… Read More »

CompTIA Project+ PK0-004 – Managing the Project Risks Part 2

5. Using quantitative risk analysis We’ve discussed qualitative risk analysis, where we qualify risk for additional analysis. Well, that additional analysis is quantitative, where we are trying to quantify by the probability and the impact of risk events. So in order to do quantitative risk analysis, we have to first understand well what risk events… Read More »

CompTIA Project+ PK0-004 – Managing the Project Risks Part 1

1. What’s a risk appetite? A term that we use often in project management, especially from a portfolio management perspective, is risk appetite. In this lecture, we’ll take a quick look at exploring attitudes towards risk. Often when we think about risk, we think of when we’re taking a risk that’s dangerous, but really risk,… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 08 – System Maintenance Part 7

60. grep Alright, so Grep, as we talk about a little bit more, is a tool that we use to do a pattern matching. It uses what’s called regular expressions. You probably have heard a lot of Linux and Unix people talking about Grep all the time. In fact, when people are working with files… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 08 – System Maintenance Part 6

50. Sample rsyslog.conf So let’s take a look at an example of what you might see. If you were to edit the Rsyslog config file, what you would see is a list of what we like to call the facilities and severity levels of what we want to look at. Now, what that means to… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 08 – System Maintenance Part 5

39. The uptime Command Another command that a lot of people like is the uptime command. The uptime just lets you know how long this thing’s been running the system itself since the last reboot or power on. Now, some of you may be encouraged to find these sites. We used to see them all… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 08 – System Maintenance Part 4

30. Topic C: Performance Monitoring All right, so now we’re going to look at some of these proactive things we can do to make sure our system is running well. Now, I keep emphasizing proactive. I’m big into that. I don’t like waiting till there’s a problem and then trying to figure out what’s happening.… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 08 – System Maintenance Part 3

20. Demo – Backing Up with dd Well, we’re going to look at using DD to do some of our backups. And what we need to know is the name of the device that some of our hard drives are mounted. So we need the Cat command to throw out some information about our different… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 08 – System Maintenance Part 2

13. Tape Archives Part Well, now that we’ve talked about compression, the next thing is backup. And that’s kind of what we said we’re going to start with, is talking about doing backups. Now, understand that the compression used to be something we did when we stored files on our servers because we didn’t have… Read More »