Network Administration from Florida State University

National CAE Designated Institution

Classroom
Online, Instructor-Led

This course focuses on the planning, design, configuration, operation, and management of computer networks containing data communication devices, servers, workstations, and networked applications and support systems. It introduces students to administrative techniques inherent to basic operating systems, and also to enterprise management systems required by larger organizations. Students examine and discuss issues of scalability, performance management, and integration of internal resources with external resources such as cloud-based systems.

Learning Objectives

Identify key differences between very small ad hoc networks, small-to-medium hand-managed networks, enterprise networks, and "clouds".
Define networking services provided by a variety of operating systems, and perform basic operations on them.
Identify strengths and weaknesses in various network architectures, and identify gaps.
Analyze the role of networked applications such as databases, messaging, and voice, and how they integrate into the enterprise network environment.
Define cloud computing, virtualization and virtualization management systems.
Read, create, modify, and maintain network diagrams and documentation.
Explain how issues like scalability, time and resource management, ethics, and user information needs are critical to the effective practice of network and system administration.
Demonstrate basic network, server, and workstation troubleshooting functions.
Plan and implement information security policies and measures based on various organizations' needs and requirements.
Plan, prepare, and operate various enterprise-grade network management systems such as virus protection, intrusion detection, and workstation, server, and work performance- and fault-monitoring systems.