System Administration and Maintenance (Beginner)

Introduction

In this course, student will acquire fundamental knowledge and skills about servers. Student will be exposed to server setup, deployment, management and maintenance. The knowledge area consists of skills and concepts that are essential to the administration of operating systems, networks, software, file systems, file servers, web systems and database systems.

Benefits of Learning the Programme

By the end of the programme, participant would be able to:

• Install, setup and configure Linux server based on their hardware and software requirements
• Perform fundamental server administration and management techniques, which include user and group management, backup management, security management, disaster recovery, resource management, and automation management (automatic job scheduling)
• Setup and configure basic Internet server such as Apache server with PHP scripting, MySQL server, FTP server and SSH server
• Setup and configure essential free and opensource web systems, such as content management system, wiki and e-commerce system

Duration

· 5 days

· 6 hours per day

Course Outline

· Introduction to System Administration

· Linux Server Installation and Configuration

· User and Group Management, Backup and Disaster Recovery

· Security, Resource and Automation management

· Apache Server with PHP Scripting Setup and Configuration

· MySQL Server Setup and Configuration

· FTP Server Setup and Configuration

· SSH Server Setup and Configuration

· CMS Setup and Configuration

· Wiki and e-Commerce System Setup and Configuration

Learning Methodology

· Lecture and hands-on lab sessions

Pre-requisites

· Some basic knowledge of IT