Course Catalog Information (24-25)
CIS 69D
System Administration and IT Infrastructure Services
Course Description
This course will transition learners from working on a single computer to supporting an entire data center. Systems administration is the field of IT that's responsible for maintaining reliable computer systems in a multi-user environment. In this course, students will learn the infrastructure services that keep all organizations, big and small, up and running. The material focuses particularly on the cloud, covering everything from typical cloud infrastructure setups to how to manage cloud resources. Students will learn how to manage and configure servers and how to use industry tools to manage computers, user information, and user productivity, as well as learn how to recover an organization's IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster.
Student Learning Outcomes
- 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.
- Manage an organization’s computers and users using the directory services, Active Directory, and OpenLDAP.
- Learn about disaster recovery and use system administration knowledge to improve IT processes.
Course Details
- Units
- 4.5 Units
- Hours
- Weekly Lecture Hours: 4
- Weekly Lab Hours: 1.5
- Gen Ed
- Non-GE Class
- Program Status
- Program Applicable
- Credit
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Transferability
- Transferable to CSU only
- Grading Method
- Letter Grading
Requisite and Advisory
- Prerequisite(s)
- Corequisite(s)
- Advisory(ies)
Limitations on Enrollment and Entrance Skills
- Limitation(s) on Enrollment
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