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Career Essentials in System Administration by Microsoft and LinkedIn

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Overview

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Learn the skills you need for an in-demand career in system administration and earn a Career Essentials Certificate by Microsoft and LinkedIn to showcase your skills to employers..

Syllabus

Introduction to System Administration
  • Start your sysadmin journey
  • What are the roles of a system administrator?
  • A week in the life
  • The biggest challenges
  • Keeping your skills sharp
  • Major components of a modern network
1. Operating Systems: Installing, Updating, and Maintaining OSs
  • Servers and clients
  • Active Directory
  • Operating system installation
  • System Center Suite
  • Endpoint Manager
  • Manual installation options
  • Windows Server Update Services
  • Why updates are so important
2. Servers: Managing, Configuring, Maintaining, and Monitoring
  • Commercial administration monitoring tools
  • Physical equipment maintenance
  • Utilizing event logs to monitor and maintain a server
  • Built-in Windows monitoring tools
3. Identity and Authentication Services
  • On-premises and cloud identity services
  • Active Directory from scratch
  • Azure AD and Directory Services
  • Multi-factor authentication
  • Single sign-on
  • Group creation and management
  • Group policy application
  • Shared folder security
  • Security in the modern era
4. Basic Networking
  • The sysadmin's role in networking
  • What runs over the Internet Protocol?
  • The OSI model
  • IP structure
  • Routing tools
  • VLANs and subnets
  • Static and dynamic routing
5. Virtualization
  • What is virtualization?
  • Windows Hyper-V
  • VMware virtualization
  • Creating an Azure virtual machine
  • The future of virtual machines and containers
6. Cloud Administration
  • What is cloud administration?
  • How cloud computing adds resiliency
  • Preparing for a cloud environment
  • Utilizing the hybrid cloud
  • Virtualization in the cloud
  • Overview of the Azure Portal and services
  • Azure cloud storage
  • Microsoft 365 online services
7. Security and Monitoring
  • What security means to the role of a systems administrator
  • Email security from phishing attacks
  • Securing the network from attacks
  • How to secure your cloud resources
  • Data loss prevention
  • How to be secure in public places
  • Mitigating social engineering attacks
8. Backup and Recovery: Scheduling, Monitoring, and Securing Backups and Sound Backup Strategy
  • Overview of backup solutions
  • Different backup types for different types of organizations
  • Windows Server backups for smaller operations
  • Commercial backup options from third-party companies
  • Backing up Linux and Macintosh
  • Windows client backup solutions
  • What type of hardware should be used in a backup solution?
  • Azure backup for on-premises and cloud resources
9. Getting Started as a System Administrator
  • Explore the hiring process
  • Writing your resume
  • How to be successful starting out
Conclusion
  • Your next sysadmin steps

Taught by

Robert McMillen

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