Server Administration Fundamentals 2017 (Server+ SK0-004)

Master Server Administration Fundamentals & Prepare for the CompTIA Server+ (SK0-004) Exam

Boost your IT career with our comprehensive Server+ Networking Fundamentals course! This course is designed to help you validate your skills and gain the knowledge needed to excel in today's dynamic IT landscape. Become qualified for roles like network administrator, systems engineer, help desk technician, and hardware technician.

Learn Server Administration Fundamentals and master the principles, techniques, and tools required to confidently prepare for the CompTIA Server+ (SK0-004) certification exam.

Course Overview:

This course provides a thorough review of the CompTIA Server+ (SK0-004) exam objectives. We cover key concepts including:

• Understanding Servers: Explore different server types, their purposes, and essential features.
• Installing and Configuring Servers: Learn the initial steps for server utilization, from form factors to hardware components.
• Configuring Server Operating Systems: Master the process of selecting, installing, and configuring operating systems for your servers.
• Server Administration and Maintenance: Discover best practices for server access, administration techniques, fault tolerance, asset management, and documentation.
• Virtual Server Essentials: Understand the power of virtualization, hypervisors, and their role in modern server environments.
• Understanding Storage Systems: Explore various storage solutions including hard disks, RAID, SAN, and external drives, and learn how to calculate storage capacity.
• Server Security Essentials: Implement robust security measures, from physical security to server hardening and data encryption.
• Network Configuration and Administration: Gain expertise in IP addressing (IPv4 & IPv6), networking services, ports, protocols, and network scanning.
• Server Disaster Recovery: Develop strategies for server disaster recovery, including continuity operations, recovery sites, data replication, and backup methodologies.
• Troubleshooting Server Problems: Learn effective troubleshooting methodologies for both hardware and software issues, and identify common errors.

Our engaging lectures are complemented by demonstrations and quizzes, providing visual examples and real-world applications of key concepts.

Why Choose the CompTIA Server+ Certification?

The Server+ Certification is a globally recognized, vendor-neutral credential endorsed by industry computing manufacturers and organizations. This course provides the foundational knowledge you need to succeed.

Earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs):

This course qualifies for Continuing Education Units (CEUs). Redeem up to 22 CEUs upon course completion.

Flexible Learning:

Sections can be taken in any order, allowing you to review concepts as needed. However, for those new to the field, we recommend a sequential approach, starting with security and ethical hacking.

Course Breakdown:

• Section 1: History of network servers, server types, purposes, and key features.
• Section 2: Server form factors, processors, RAM, hardware, and cooling systems.
• Section 3: Selecting, installing, and configuring server operating systems.
• Section 4: Server access, administration techniques, fault tolerance, asset management, and documentation.
• Section 5: Introduction to virtualization, hypervisors, and their role.
• Section 6: Understanding storage systems: hard disks, RAID, SAN, external drives, and capacity calculation.
• Section 7: Partitioning, volumes, internal/external drives, arrays, encryption, and data compression.
• Section 8: Server security: physical security, hardening, and data wiping.
• Section 9: IP addressing (IPv4 & IPv6), networking services, ports, protocols, and port scanning.
• Section 10: Server disaster recovery: continuity operations, recovery sites, data replication, and backup.
• Section 11: Troubleshooting server hardware and software problems.
• Section 12: Demonstrate proficiency in Server+ Administration Fundamentals (SK0-004).

What Others Are Saying:

"Great Material - This course is a great reference and way to refresh your skills for the new Server+ exam! I needed a good refresh before taking the exam and this course is clearly laid out and copiously covers the material for the exam. Great course, well worth the money!" -- M.B.

"Perfect Course - Not only do you get great lectures that are pretty much PowerPoints with an instructor teaching you the concepts, there are also Demo lectures that show you how each of the concepts works in real life. This is such valuable information to have when taking the test. I feel very confident that this course is the best course on Udemy." -- D.R. Jr.

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