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Career Essentials in System Administration by Microsoft and LinkedIn
Pathway Summary
If you’re interested in a career in system administration but aren’t sure where to start, this course is for you. System administration requires skills spanning across many topics, and in this course, Robert McMillen helps you get started by providing an overview of the role, core skills and tools needed, and how to start and advance your career. Learn about managing on-premises, cloud, physical, and virtual implementations as well as storage security and much more. If you’re looking for the skills necessary to continue your learning journey and earn a Career Essentials Certificate by Microsoft and LinkedIn to showcase your skills to employers, join Robert in this course.
Browse All Pathway Courses
Here’s a list of all the courses that are part of this learning pathway. Not interested in completing the entire pathway? You can click on the links to get started on individual courses.
- Start you 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 are updates 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
September 1 - 30, 2024
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Note: Only courses started and completed between September 1 - 30, 2024 count towards the AI Skill-A-Thon.
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