System Admin IT Infrastructure.

Catalog description

This course will transition learners from working on one computer at a time to working with a whole fleet of computers. Systems administration is the field of IT that’s responsible for maintaining reliable computer systems in multi-user environments. In this course, participants will learn about the infrastructure services that keep all organizations, big and small, up and running. Topics include how to manage and configure servers, and how to use industry tools to manage computers, user information, and user productivity. Finally, the course will explain how to recover an organization’s IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster. People who complete this course will be able to do the following: Utilize best practices for choosing hardware, vendors, and services for an organization, Understand the most common infrastructure services that keep an organization running, how they work, and how to manage infrastructure servers, Manage an organization’s computers and users using the Active Directory and OpenLDAP directory services, Choose and manage the tools that an organization will use, Back up an organization’s data and recover IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster, Utilize systems administration knowledge to plan and improve processes for IT environments.