CIS 527 - Enterprise System Administration
About
Computer information systems form the backbone of many large organizations, and many students will be called upon in their careers to help create, manage and maintain these large systems. This course will give students knowledge and experience working with enterprise level computer systems including workstation management, file servers, web servers, networking devices, configuration management, monitoring, and more. We will mainly focus on the GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows server software, and much of the learning will take place in hands-on lab activities working directly with these systems. In addition, students will be responsible for developing some technical documentation and communicating information about their systems in a variety of ways. Finally, throughout the course students will be exposed to a variety of information directly from system administrators across campus.
Objective
Objectives
- Understand the major components of an enterprise level computer network and server system
- Design and implement a simple enterprise level server system and network, as well as provision workstations on that network quickly and easily
- Communicate information about enterprise systems clearly and effectively to users of all skill levels and interests
- Develop ways to increase efficiency by automating tasks whenever possible using scripting and configuration management tools
- Understand and describe security risks in any enterprise system and any ways that they can be mitigated
- Show how to monitor enterprise systems for problems and use that information to locate and fix any issues within the system
- Work with cloud technologies and describe how they can be integrated into an enterprise information technology setup
Course Outline
- Secure Workstations
- Configuration Management
- Core Networking Services
- Directory Services
- The Cloud
- Containers
- Application Servers
- Backups, Monitoring, & DevOps
- Final Project