System and network administration course outline

1. System and Network administration
Course Outline
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2. Course objective
 At the end of this course you will be able to:
 Create and manage users and groups;
 Manage disks and files;
 Manage a network
 Backup and restore system and user data
 Remotely administer a network
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3. Course outline
 Unit One
1. Introduction & Background
1.1. Computer Systems & Network overview
1.2. Philosophy of System Administration
 Unit Two
2. Windows Network Concepts
2.1. Workgroups
2.2. Server Domain
2.3. Domain Controllers
2.4. LDAP & Windows Active Directory
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4. Cont. ..
 Unit Three
3. User Administration Concepts & Mechanisms
3.1.1. Users and capabilities
3.1.2. Policy Tools & Roaming Profiles
3.1.3. Advanced Concepts I
3.1.3.1. The Registry
3.1.4. Automating Administrative Tasks - Windows
Host Scripting
3.2. Advanced Concepts II
3.2.1. Routing and NAT
3.2.2. Proxies and Gateways
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5. Cont. ..
 Unit Four
4. Resource Monitoring & Mgt I
4.1.1. Stand-alone systems
4.2. Resource Monitoring & Mgt II
4.2.1. Bandwidth
4.2.2. File & Mail Servers
4.2.3. Network Printers
4.3. Remote Administration
4.4. Performance
4.4.1. RAID
4.4.2. SCSI
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6.  Unit Five
5. Security
5.1.Introduction
5.2. Linux Systems and Network Concepts
5.3. Linux Resource Monitoring & Management
5.3.1. Monitoring Tools
5.3.2. Network Bandwidth and Processing Power
5.3.3. Managing Storage
5.4. Linux User Administration
5.5. Linux Service/Server Administration
5.5.1. Supporting a Windows Network - through SAMBA
5.5.2. Mail Server
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7. References
1. The practice-of-system-and-network-administration-
2nd edition,2007
2. Computer Networks, 3 edition, by Andrew
Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall.
3. An Engineering Approach to Computer Networks, S.
Keshav
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