ONLINE IT SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

CIS 294 - System Administration and IT Infrastructure Services
Course Start Date
Start the first of every month
Credits
3
Learning Format
Fully Online
Duration
Self-Paced
Course fee
N480,000

Overview

This course is the fourth in a series that will prepare learners for a Google IT Certificate. Learn more about the certificate here.

This course will transition learners from working on a single computer to an entire fleet. Systems administration is the field of IT that’s responsible for maintaining reliable computer systems in a multi-user environment. In this course, learners will learn about the infrastructure services that keep all organizations, big and small, up and running. We’ll deep dive on cloud so that they will understand everything from typical cloud infrastructure setups to how to manage cloud resources. They will also learn how to manage and configure servers and how to use industry tools to manage computers, user information, and user productivity. Finally, they will learn how to recover an organization’s IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster

Required prerequisites for this course:

  • CIS 194 Business Technology Fundamentals
  • CIS 194 Computer Networking in Organizations
  • CIS 194 Operating Systems Management for Business

 

What you'll learn

  • 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
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Exams and grading

49%

Google Module Completion

30%

Quizzes

12%

Reflections

9%%

Writing Assignment

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