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Infrastructure and operations

Systems Administrator

Operates servers, operating systems, identities, storage, and core services across physical and virtual environments.

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Skill coverage

100%

9 of 9 skills

Course coverage

100%

97 of 97 courses

Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.

Role skills: 9
Published coverage: 9
Relevant courses: 97

Capability map

Skills

Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.

01

Systems foundations

5 capabilities

Operating systems
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Understands processes, memory, filesystems, boot, and system interfaces.
Course coverage
Linux administration
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Configures and maintains Linux hosts and services.
Course coverage
Windows administration
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Configures and maintains Windows Server environments.
Course coverage
Identity and directory services
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Administers users, groups, policy, and directory-backed access.
Course coverage
Virtualization
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Administers hypervisors and virtual machines across on-premises and hybrid environments.
Course coverage

02

Systems operations

4 capabilities

Networking
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Configures and diagnoses host and service connectivity.
Course coverage
Storage and backup
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Operates filesystems, storage, backup, and recovery.
Course coverage
Automation
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Automates configuration and repetitive administration safely.
Course coverage
Troubleshooting
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Diagnoses failures systematically across system layers.
Course coverage

Learning path

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Core foundations

The concepts this role is built on.

Supporting knowledge

Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.

Specializations

Deeper paths for particular environments or directions.

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