Professional Training

This certificate training validates the candidate's hands-on skills as an IT professional who installs, manages, and troubleshoots servers in the data centers as well as on-premise and hybrid environments.

Curriculum

Domain 1—SERVER HARDWARE INSTALLATION AND MANAGEMENT (18%)

• Installing physical hardware
• Deploying and managing storage.
• Perform server hardware maintenance.

Domain 2—SERVER ADMINISTRATION (30%)

• Installing server operating systems
• Configure the server to use network infrastructure services.
• Configure and maintain server functions and features.
• Key concepts of high availability for servers
• Virtualization
• Scripting basic for server administration
• Importance of assets management and documentation
• Explain the license concept.
• Data security risk and mitigation strategies
• Server hardening techniques
• Server decommissioning concepts
• Backup and restore.
• Disaster recovery

Domain 3—SECURITY AND DISASTER RECOVERY (24%)

• Data security concepts
• Physical security concepts
• Identity and access management for server administration

Domain 4—TROUBLESHOOTING (28%)

• Troubleshooting theory and methodology
• Common hardware failures
• Troubleshooting storage problems
• Troubleshooting common PS and software problems
• Troubleshooting network connectivity issues
• Troubleshooting security problems

Who should learn Server +?

• Network Administrator
• System Administrator
• Server Administrator
• Datacenter Technician
• Datacenter Engineer
• NOC Technician

What will I be able to do at the end of the training?

• Ability to install and maintain physical hardware and storage.
• Manage and maintain servers, OS configuration, access control, and virtualization.
• Apply physical and network data security techniques.
• Understand disaster recovery and implement backup techniques.
• Diagnose and resolve system hardware, software, connectivity, storage, and security issues.

What are the prerequisites for Server +?

• CompTIA A+
• Network +