CNSA 161: Systems Administration I                (3 Credits)

This course builds and continues where the previous course, Operating Systems I, left off. A systems administrator is the person in charge of the servers and client computers that are attached to a network. As a systems administrator, an individual is in charge of an organization’s most important asset—its information and data. Students learn how to manage servers and their services and how to create a reliable, secure user environment. It is in this course that students are introduced to active directory and come to understand the difference between a security accounts manager (local user database) and the active directory (domain-based user database). Students learn how to manage the network clients (users and their PCs) that are connected to a LAN and are a part of a Microsoft domain. User account maintenance, user profiles, logon scripts and the ever-powerful group policy are covered. Students will also learn in the classroom what goes on behind the scenes with DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol—automatic addressing) and DNS (Domain Name Server—computer name resolution). Ultimately they will take this classroom theory and apply it in the lab as they create their own active directory domains and configure DHCP and DNS services within their domain. This course can be used as preparation for Microsoft Certification though it is not an official exam preparation course. Prerequisite: CNSA 156

 

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