Link to the Course:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/system-administration-it-infrastructure-services/
Learning Objectives
Week 1
- Examine the roles and responsibilities of a Systems Administrator.
- Differentiate the technical differences between a server and a client machine.
Week 2
- Understand why DNS and DHCP servers are used and what is needed to set it up.
- Learn about the physical infrastructure services in an organization that make server management easier.
Week 3
- Know what communication services are available and what you need for an organization.
- Run a local webserver and understand how a public webserver works.
Week 4
- Understand what services a directory server provides.
- Understand what LDAP and Active Directory are.
Week 5
- Understand tradeoffs between on-site vs off-site backups
- Understand what characteristics to evaluate when designing a backup system
- Understand the value and importance of backup and recovery testing
- Understand the different options for data backup and the risks that each one protects against
- Understand the purpose and contents of a disaster recovery plan
Week 6
The last week of this course is dedicated to the final project. For the final project, you will apply all the skills you’ve learned in this course by providing systems administration consultation. You will assess the IT infrastructure of three fictitious (but very real-life based!) companies and provide recommendations and advice about how to support their IT infrastructure. By the end of this project, you will demonstrate the skills and problem-solving techniques of a SysAdmin.
About the Course: 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.