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Foundations

  • Introduction
  • Critical Thinking 101
  • Guidelines
  • Careers in Operations
  • Sysadmin 101

Operating systems

  • Unix fundamentals 101
  • Unix fundamentals 201
  • MS Windows fundamentals 101
  • Text Editing 101
  • Text Editing 201
  • Tools for productivity
  • Hardware 101

Networking

  • Networking 101
  • Networking 201
  • Common services
  • Load Balancing

Security and identity

  • Security 101
  • Security 201
  • Identity Management 101
  • Active Directory 101
  • Active Directory 201

Storage and data

  • Remote Filesystems 101
  • Remote Filesystems 201
  • Databases 101 (Relational Databases)
  • Databases 201
  • Logs 101
  • Logs 201

Running services

  • Troubleshooting
  • Monitoring, Notifications, and Metrics 101
  • Monitoring, Notifications, and Metrics 201
  • Software Deployment 101
  • Software Deployment 201
  • Configuration Management 101
  • Configuration Management 201
  • Capacity Planning
  • Statistics For Engineers
  • Business Continuity Planning

Design and build

  • Programming 101
  • Programming 201
  • Architecture 101
  • Architecture 201
  • Application Components 201
  • Virtualization 101
  • Virtualization 201
  • Datacenters 101
  • Datacenters 201
  • Datacenters 301

People and practice

  • Soft Skills 101
  • Soft Skills 201
  • Labs exercises
  • Learning and the Community
  • Reading List
  • See also

Contributing and reference

  • Contributions
  • Conventions
  • Style Guide
  • Unfinished sections
  • Glossary

Curriculum / People and practice

See also¶

A list of System Administration or Ops related classes or degree granting programs. It would be well worth our time to compare their syllabi, course outcomes, exercises etc.

  • http://www.hioa.no/Studier/TKD/Master/Network-and-System-Administration/

  • http://www.hioa.no/Studier/Summer/Network-and-system-administration

  • http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~jschauma/615/

  • http://goo.gl/4ygBn

  • http://www.cs.fsu.edu/current/grad/cnsa_ms.php

  • http://www.rit.edu/programs/applied-networking-and-system-administration-bs

  • http://www.mtu.edu/technology/undergraduate/cnsa/

  • http://www.wit.edu/computer-science/programs/BSCN.html

  • http://www.his.se/english/education/island/net–og-kerfisstjornun/

In addition, Usenix SAGE (now LISA) used to have a sage-edu@usenix.org mailing list, but I don’t know if that is still active. LOPSA has https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators

http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/Report_on_programs_in_System_Administration__25-June-2012.pdf

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