Career Essentials in System Administration by Microsoft and LinkedIn
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
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
- 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
- Commercial administration monitoring tools
- Physical equipment maintenance
- Utilizing event logs to monitor and maintain a server
- Built-in Windows monitoring tools
- 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
- 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
- What is virtualization?
- Windows Hyper-V
- VMware virtualization
- Creating an Azure virtual machine
- The future of virtual machines and containers
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Explore the hiring process
- Writing your resume
- How to be successful starting out
- Your next sysadmin steps
Taught by
Robert McMillen
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