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Infrastructure and operations

Systems Administrator

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

Skills
8
Published coverage
5
Awaiting publication
3

Skills

Systems foundations

  • Operating systems

    Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

    Understands processes, memory, filesystems, boot, and system interfaces.

    Course coverage

    • Course planned (1)
  • 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

    • Course planned (1)
  • Identity and directory services

    Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

    Administers users, groups, policy, and directory-backed access.

Systems operations

  • Networking

    Importance: Very important (4 of 5)

    Configures and diagnoses host and service connectivity.

    Course coverage

    • Course planned (1)
  • Storage and backup

    Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

    Operates filesystems, storage, backup, and recovery.

    Course coverage

  • Troubleshooting

    Importance: Essential (5 of 5)

    Diagnoses failures systematically across system layers.

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Relevant courses

Core foundations

Supporting knowledge

Specializations