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Computer system administration - course description

General information
Course name Computer system administration
Course ID 11.3-WE-INFP-ComSysAd-Er
Faculty Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Automatics
Field of study Computer Science
Education profile academic
Level of studies Erasmus programme
Beginning semester winter term 2017/2018
Course information
Semester 6
ECTS credits to win 5
Course type optional
Teaching language english
Author of syllabus
  • dr inż. Jacek Bieganowski
Classes forms
The class form Hours per semester (full-time) Hours per week (full-time) Hours per semester (part-time) Hours per week (part-time) Form of assignment
Lecture 15 1 - - Credit with grade
Laboratory 30 2 - - Credit with grade
Project 15 1 - - Credit with grade

Aim of the course

  1. Familiarize students with installation and configuration of operating systems and network devices.
  2. Familiarize students with typical system administrator tasks.
  3. Familiarize students with useful tools and software.
  4. Familiarize students with virtual machines.

 

 

Prerequisites

Operating systems.

Scope

Installing and configuring Windows, Windows Server, UNIX/Linux machines. Installing and configuring e-mail servers, database servers, SSH servers, web servers. Backups, redundant array of independent disks (RAID), replacing failed drives, performing full and incremental backups on the example of ZFS file system. Configuration of network devices and services: virtual private networks (VPN), DHCP servers, DNS servers, firewalls, NATs, NTP. Remote desktops and remote administration. Virtual machines configuration. Scripting and automation of routine task.

Teaching methods

lecture, laboratory classes, project

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description Outcome symbols Methods of verification The class form

Assignment conditions

Lecture - the passing criterion is a sufficient mark from the final test.

Laboratory - the passing criterion are positive marks for laboratory exercises and tests.

Project - the passing criterion are positive marks for all project exercises.

Final mark components = lecture: 30% + laboratory: 40% + project: 30%

 

 

Recommended reading

  1. MikroTik devices documentation, https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:TOC.
  2. OpenVPN documentation, https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html.
  3. FreeBSD Handbook, https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/.

Further reading

  1.   Eric Steven Raymond, The Art of Unix Programming, http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/, 2003.

Notes


Modified by dr inż. Jacek Bieganowski (last modification: 24-04-2019 22:40)