Systems and Network Administration - ZEIT3115
Faculty: UNSW Canberra at ADFA
School: School of Engineering & Information Technology @ UNSW Canberra at ADFA
Course Outline: ZEIT3115 Course Outline
Campus: UNSW Canberra at ADFA
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ZEIT2102 or ZEIT2902
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
Description
This course will cover systems administration in depth. While there are numerous brands of systems in use today, the fundamental architecture remains constant. As such, the practical elements of this course will be based on a single operating system, Linux. Hence some working knowledge in Linux will be helpful. This course will introduce you to the skills, methodologies and activities required to administer a computer system which consists of various hardware, software and users within an organisational infrastructure. In particular, students will be introduced to user, device and file system administration, computer and network security, system monitoring, administrative support tools, network, server and client administration.