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About the Course

In this course -- through a combination of video lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on practice -- you’ll learn about the main components of an operating system and how to perform critical tasks like managing software and users, and configuring hardware. By the end of this course you’ll be able to: ● navigate the Windows and Linux filesystems using a graphical user interface and command line interpreter ● set up users, groups, and permissions for account access ● install, configure, and remove software on the Windows and Linux operating systems ● configure disk partitions and filesystems ● understand how system processes work and how to manage them ● work with system logs and remote connection tools ● utilize operating system knowledge to troubleshoot common issues in an IT Support Specialist role...

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BV

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Should of separate the lessons in a way where it compliments one another. Windows by itself and Linux by itself instead of mixing it one after another (Windows then Linux). But either way, good videos

GM

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This course really goes in depth with shell commands, and navigating the windows and Linux OS'It was very informative, and the tests walk you through using the commands by using virtual machines.

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By Ferd C

Jun 7, 2019

Does not prepare you for the final linux lab!!

By Bruno

Apr 15, 2021

I had too many issues with Window's Qwiklabs

By Jack B

Mar 29, 2021

Very vague and some instructions not clear.

By Alan T

Nov 15, 2021

really awkward to use the windoze vm's

By Michelle Z

Aug 29, 2021

the way she says her "s" hurts my ears.

By Rhonda

Jun 21, 2019

where is a mentor at for the linux logs

By Paris S

Jul 13, 2019

would like more help to navigate labs

By Samiulhaq S

Jan 5, 2021

GUI is much Easier then Command line

By Arina A

Sep 24, 2020

i found it very boring

By Chris V

Jun 13, 2022

So long and tedious

By Dalton P S

Aug 10, 2022

Linix i super hard

By Karthikeya G

May 10, 2021

verification sucks

By Ahmed G

Apr 26, 2024

لم يتم منحي فرصة

By Mic T

Jan 3, 2021

logs suck

By Issabek M

Mar 18, 2022

shit VM

By HARDIK S

Sep 27, 2022

great!

By Mohamed M K

May 11, 2022

It's ok

By ahmed r

Nov 3, 2021

good

By Garrett H

May 17, 2021

Good

By Rashmeet K

Mar 7, 2023

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By SAPPHIREKING E

Apr 11, 2021

The reason For Only 1 Star is because I've been getting no help at all for the week 4 last quiz for me to complete this course I got only one solution from qwiklab support when I emailed them the issue and attached the screenshots of what the issue was and after 2 support team members gave me the same solution twice and i told them and showed them the screenshots again in another email that it didn't work then they just didn't reply back and help me any further, now I'm still having the same problem and I don't know when or how I'm going to complete the 3rd Course and get my Certificate for it as well. The only thing i can do for the time being and complete the last 2 courses and then cancel my subscription for the GOOGLE IT Certification Course because I cant keep spending $54.12 just waiting for no help on the one part of my last quiz of week 4 which was Creating a Partition, hopefully only getting 4/5 certifications for the GOOGLE IT SUPPORT Course will be enough for me to get the work from home online job I've been trying to get for a long time and I also hope that qwiklab does a better job helping others who get in situation as I am in because as of right now i'm very disappointed with how qwiklab is functioning for the LINX labs and how the Qwiklab Support Team just doesn't try hard enough to help someone with issues like this.

By Bill C

Apr 11, 2022

When you get stuck on a lab there is no help so learners just quit which is crazy for a learning MOOC to not care about.

I have been stuck with this for days now student@ca721599e80e:~$ cd /home/user/Pictures student@ca721599e80e:/home/user/Pictures$ mv /home/user/Images/Vacation.JPG .student@ca721599e80e:/home/user/Pictures$ ls 'Europe Pictures' Vacation.JPG chocolate egg Click Check my progress to verify the objective when I go to check my progress it say that you have not done the lession which I have ..the instructions are not clear. are we to use the \ slash instead of the / slash which is used in lynux. In the directory /home/user/Movies, there's a folder called "Europe Pictures". We'll move this folder into the correct directory for pictures: /home/user/Pictures. Note the use of the backslash "\" to escape the space between "Europe" and "Pictures" in the directory name, "Europe Pictures" I tried to get help in quicklabs nothing but dropdowns that don't cover the problem

By Anthony D

Feb 9, 2023

Frustration doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about this course. Several of the QwikLabs VM's used for the labs either don't work at all, or are extremely buggy and slow. Right now I'm in my second bout with QwikLabs tech support to try and get a lab working, just so I can pass the course. I completed the written tests, the videos, the quizzes, everything, but I can't earn a pass because the lab isn't functioning. Really it's a shame, because the content is useful (except for the Linux content) but I may have to cut my losses and quit this certification program if these issues with the labs can't be resolved. For what they charge per month to subscribe to this certification course I think we as students deserve better, especially for a product with the Google brand name attached to it.

By Joshua C

Dec 19, 2023

fuckin garbage! trying to follow this course has been a nightmare. the material is garbage. with no actual logic to follow on why things actually function the way they do. the course has simply been . "do this do that" but then half way through there's a note saying they messed up. now i have to undo all the fuckery i was taught to try and get it right, and then on top of that they give us this exam on a vm that doesn't even follow the fuckin layout of the exam. this is by FAR!! the WORST!! course i've ever done in my life!! i thought cisco courses were bad because they were exhaustive in material, but nothing fuckin beats giving wrong info and providing tools that don't work correctly. this has been a real fuckin shit show. not gonna lie

By Jacob S

Oct 18, 2020

From the page for the Google IT Support Professional Certification program:"Upon completion of the certificate, learners eligible to work in the US can directly share their information with Google, as well as employers like Hulu, Infosys, Intel, Walmart, and more. "

The wording of this implies that UPON COMPLETION of the course, there will be opportunities for applications for WORK that were NOT AVAILABLE PRIOR. Saying this is MISLEADING. OF COURSE I can 'share my information with [these companies]", I COULD DO THAT BEFORE. The wording of this sentence was the ENTIRE REASON I took this course! I WASTED TWO MONTHS ON THIS! I COULD'VE JUST STUDIED FOR A+! THANK YOU FOR WASTING MY TIME.