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28 hours

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Beginner

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  • Beginner Level
  • Approx. 28 hours to complete
  • English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish
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  • This course will transition you from working on a single computer to an entire fleet. Systems administration is the field of IT that?s responsible for maintaining reliable computers systems in a multi-user environment. In this course, you?ll learn about the infrastructure services that keep all organizations, big and small, up and running. We?ll deep dive on cloud so that you?ll understand everything from typical cloud infrastructure setups to how to manage cloud resources. You'll also learn how to manage and configure servers and how to use industry tools to manage computers, user information, and user productivity. Finally, you?ll learn how to recover your organization?s IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster.
  • By the end of this course you?ll be able to:
  • ? utilize best practices for choosing hardware, vendors, and services for your organization
  • ? understand how the most common infrastructure services that keep an organization
  • running work, and how to manage infrastructure servers
  • ? understand how to make the most of the cloud for your organization
  • ? manage an organization?s computers and users using the directory services, Active
  • Directory, and OpenLDAP
  • ? choose and manage the tools that your organization will use
  • ? backup your organization?s data and know how to recover your IT infrastructure in the case of
  • a disaster
  • ? utilize systems administration knowledge to plan and improve processes for IT environments
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System Administration and IT Infrastructure Services
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Curriculum

What is System Administration?

Course Introduction

What is Systems Administration?

Servers Revisited

The Cloud

Organizational Policies

IT Infrastructure Services

User and Hardware Provisioning

Routine Maintenance

Vendors

Troubleshooting and Managing Issues

In Case of Fire, Break Glass

Dion Michelle Obama Story

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Never Test in Production

Assessing Risk

Fixing Things the Right Way

Navigating Coursera

Program Surveys

How to Use Discussion Forums

Get to Know Your Classmates

Supplemental Reading on KVM switch

Recording Your Actions

What is System Administration?

Systems Administration Tasks

What is System Administration?

Network and Infrastructure Services

What are IT Infrastructure Services?

The Role of IT Infrastructure Services in SysAdmin

Types of IT Infrastructure Services

How do Qwiklabs Work?

Heather First Tech Job

Server Operating Systems

Virtualization

Remote Access Revisited

FTP, SFTP, and TFTP

NTP

Network Support Services Revisited

DNS

DNS for Web Servers

DNS for Internal Networks

DHCP

Unable to Resolve a Hostname or Domain Name

What do Services Look Like in Action

Managing Services in Linux

Managing Services in Windows

Configuring Services in Linux

Configuring Services in Windows

Configuring DNS with Dnsmasq

Configuring DHCP with Dnsmasq

Supplemental Reading for IT Infrastructure Services

Supplemental Reading for Server Operating Systems

Supplemental Reading for Remote Access and SSH

Supplemental Reading for FTP Clients

Supplemental Reading for BIND/PowerDNS

Supplemental Reading for DNS and DHCP

Intro to IT Infrastructure Services

Physical Infrastructure Services

Network Services

Network Services

Qwiklabs: Service Management in Linux

Qwiklabs: Service Management in Windows

Qwiklabs: Getting familiar with DNS and DHCP

Software and Platform Services

Module Introduction

Configuring Communication Services

Configuring Email Services

Configuring User Productivity Services

Configuring Security Services

Heather Managing Self Doubt

What are file services?

Network File Storage

Mobile Synchronization

Configuring Print Services

Web Servers Revisited

What is a database server?

Is the website down?

Cloud Concepts

Typical Cloud Infrastructure Setups

When and How to Choose Cloud

Supplemental Reading for Chat Communication Services

Supplemental Reading for Email Services

Supplemental Reading for File Services

Supplemental Reading for Network File Storage

Supplemental Readings for Mobile Synchronization

Supplemental Reading for Print Services

Supplemental Reading for Web Servers (Revisited)

Supplemental Reading for Database Admin Jobs

Supplemental Reading for Troubleshooting with Developer Tools

Managing Cloud Resources

Software Services

File, Print, and Platform Services

Qwiklabs: Managing websites with Apache2

Troubleshooting Platform Services

Software and Platform Services

Directory Services

Module Introduction

What is a directory server?

Implementing Directory Services

What is centralized management?

What is LDAP?

What is LDAP Authentication?

Heather Overcoming Obstacles

What is Active Directory?

Managing Active Directory

Managing Active Directory Users and Groups

Managing Active Directory User Passwords

Joining an Active Directory Domain

What is Group Policy?

Group Policy Creation and Editing

Group Policy Inheritance and Precedence

Group Policy Troubleshooting

Mobile Device Management (MDM)

What is OpenLDAP?

Managing OpenLDAP

Supplemental Reading for Centralized Management

Supplemental Reading for LDAP

Supplemental Reading for Kerberos

Supplemental Reading for Active Directory

Supplemental Reading for Group Security Principles

Supplemental Reading for EFS Features

Supplemental Reading for DFL & FFL

Supplemental Reading for Group Policy Troubleshooting

Supplemental Readings for Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Supplemental Reading for OpenLDAP

Supplemental Reading for Managing OpenLDAP

Introduction to Directory Services

Qwiklabs: Using Active Directory

Centralized Management and LDAP

Active Directory

Directory Services

Data Recovery & Backups

Module Introduction

What is Data Recovery?

Backing Up Your Data

Backup Solutions

Job transition

Testing Backups

Types of Backup

User Backups

What's a Disaster Recovery Plan?

Designing a Disaster Recovery Plan

What's a post-mortem?

Writing a Post-Mortem

Interview Role Play: Sys Admin

Supplemental Reading for GitLabs Data Recovery

Supplemental Reading for Backup Solutions

Supplemental Reading for RAID Levels

Planning for Data Recovery

Disaster Recovery Plans

Post-Mortems

Data Recovery & Backups

Final Project

Final Project Introduction

Alex passion & success

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    Learning Experience: Content was good, training experience excellent, having good expertise, all good but was online so real time would do better
    Faculty: Faculty was best, quality lectures based on pratical knowledge, should go for it All resources in the course were ok
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    Learning Experience: It was good and convenient course. I completed my course from home and learned a lot.
    Faculty: Amazing Yes
    Course Support: Yes
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    Learning Experience: Everything about system Administration and IT Infrastructure
    Faculty: Very nice and supportive Yes, I liked everything about this course.
    Course Support: No career support provided
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    Learning Experience: Learning experience was good
    Faculty: Instructors taught well Curriculum was relevant and comprehensive
    Course Support: Career support was helpful
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    Learning Experience: Nothing as such just basic of networking
    Faculty: Instructors did not teach well Curriculum was relevant and comprehensive
    Course Support: No career support provided
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