CompTIA Server+ vendor-independent server skills

The vendor-independent training provides novice professionals with a comprehensive overview of server technologies, systems, installation, configuration, monitoring and maintenance of server-side operating systems and related networks. During the training, in addition to theoretical lectures, participants will also get hands-on experience with the installation, configuration and tools of different server operating systems.

The training will include:

• official CompTIA training material (e-book)
• lab environment, which can be used for further practice after the training

The course is recommended for IT professionals with previous knowledge of operating systems and networking, who will be responsible for implementing, installing, configuring, operating and maintaining enterprise, server systems and server-side operating systems, and who would like to specialise in a particular operating system, or acquire higher-level system administrator or systems engineer skills.

The course is also ideal for those who do not want to specialise in a particular vendor area later on, but who need general server-side knowledge for their work (e.g. priority users, help-desk specialists, IT support staff, network specialists).

It is also ideal for those who wish to prepare for the optional CompTIA Server+ certification exam.

On completion of the training, participants will acquire the following skills:

• Server administration concepts
• Virtualization and cloud-based systems
• Physical and network security concepts
• Physical asset management
• Server hardware management
• Storage management and configuration
• Server operating system installation and configuration
• Troubleshooting server operating system, application and network configurations
• Managing administrative tasks after installation
• Managing data security
• Managing service and data availability
• Server decommissioning and decommissioning

Theoretical parts

• Comparing desktop and server systems, types and characteristics of servers and racks
• Server motherboard architectures, overview of processor and memory architectures
• Server data storage, storage architectures and devices (IDE, SCSI, ATA, SATA, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCIP), RAID technologies, SAN and NAS technologies, bus systems
• Server system configurations
• Server operating systems overview
• Server networking: Ethernet, TCP/IP, routers/switches and firewalls overview and features, network services and applications overview (DNS, WINS, DHCP), virtualisation services
• Typical server roles and configurations, application server models; storage services; volume management; directory services; file and printer services; system monitoring and troubleshooting options, diagnostic and management tools, remote monitoring options
• Virtualisation and virtualisation solutions overview
• Overview of cloud and cloud-based services
• Server maintenance, fault prevention: fault detection and recovery procedures, uninterruptible power supply design, configuration management, server management (performance analysis, monitoring)
• Management of upgrades and upgrades: processor upgrades, memory additions, memory expansion, BIOS and firmware upgrades, peripheral upgrades, software component upgrades
• Server security: on-site security, security tools and solutions, remote access services, disaster recovery, data/system backup and restore, overview of high availability software and hardware solutions (cluster), server redundancy.

Practical parts

• Examination of server specifications
• Deployment of virtualisation solutions
• Testing cloud instances
• Deploying virtualization resources
• Implementing network encryption using IPsec
• Real-time inventory management
• Managing physical servers
• Log file management
• Managing software and hardware inventory and system information
• RAID storage configuration
• Preparing for server installation
• Configuring volumes and partitions
• Managing network configurations
• Using network troubleshooting tools
• Installing and configuring a server
• Performing post-installation tasks
• Managing server roles
• Protecting the server operating system and applications
• Managing data security
• Using security tools
• Implementing post-installation requirements
• Configuring backup solutions
• Configuring NIC Teaming
• Configuring Replication
• System decommissioning, rollout
• Availability management and server decommissioning

Windows or Linux user skills and experience, information technology and networking skills. The necessary basics can also be acquired through our CompTIA A+ and Network+ training. As the training materials and training lab environments are in English, at least a basic level of English at document reading level is required. Lectures are in Hungarian, and the optional official exam is in English.

• CompTIA Security+
• Microsoft Windows Server or Linux operator courses