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Ops School Curriculum
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Welcome to the Ops School curriculum documentation site.

Ops School is a comprehensive program that will help you learn to be an operations engineer.
Operations engineers are highly skilled people who manage the computer systems of businesses big and small.
In addition to corporate systems, operations engineers also maintain the systems that allow websites, networks, payments systems and other Internet services to function.
The field of operations engineering covers a wide variety of topics, from systems administration, to security, networking and beyond.
Ops School will guide you through all of these skill sets from beginner to expert.

Since the early 90's, operations engineers have been in high demand.
As a result, these positions often offer high salaries and long term job security.
The `SAGE/LISA Salary Survey <https://www.usenix.org/lisa/salary-surveys>`_ has charted the average salaries for systems administrators and operations engineers
since 1999 and has consistently shown the field to be prosperous for those people who enjoy diving into the inner workings of computer systems.

If you already know about the profession and want to know how to start, read :ref:`how-to-become-an-operations-engineer`.

If you are reading about this career for the first time and want to know if it is for you, check out the :ref:`careers` chapter.


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Table of Contents
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   introduction
   meta/guidelines
   careers
   sysadmin_101
   unix_101
   unix_201
   windows_101
   text_editing_101
   text_editing_201
   sysadmin_tools
   security_101
   security_201
   troubleshooting_101
   networking_101
   networking_201
   common_services
   identity_management
   active_directory_101
   active_directory_201
   remote_filesystems_101
   remote_filesystems_201
   programming_101
   programming_201
   hardware_101
   datacenters/datacenters_101
   datacenters/datacenters_201
   datacenters/datacenters_301
   virtualization_101
   virtualization_201
   logs_101
   logs_201
   databases_101
   databases_201
   application_components_201
   loadbalancing_101
   monitoring_101
   monitoring_201
   bcp
   architecture_101
   architecture_201
   config_management
   capacity_planning
   statistics
   deployment_101
   deployment_201
   soft_skills_101
   soft_skills_201
   labs
   learning
   seealso
   reading_list
   meta/contributions
   meta/conventions
   meta/style_guide
   glossary


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TODO List
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.. todolist::


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Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`