I803 IT Infrastructure services

I803 IT Infrastructure services

Introduction

Lecturer

Andres Septer >> andres (.) septer (ät) itcollege (.) ee

form of graduation

Comprehensive examination, ECTS 6

Structure

• Lectures (I explain stuff)
• Excercises – practical tasks with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions. Practicing themes discussed in lectures.
• Labs – same as exercises, except no step-by-step instructions. You have to find all the necessary information by yourself (Though there is some hints) and solve the problems independedly.

Grade

• You do series of labs and present them to lecturer.
• All labs have minimum achievements that MUST be met.
• All labs are mandatory (at least minimum level)
• All labs must be ready at due date
• Lab minimums sum up as 50 points. You need at least one additional point to get graded.
• Additionally you you have to do one 5-minute presentation about IT Infra

Presentation

• You will be teamed up by lecturer.
• Team size will depend on how many people attends to course in given year.
• Team members are chosen randomly.

Your task explained

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Premises

• Basic understanding how OS and services work
• Basic Linux shell experience
• Basic understanding how TCP/IP networking works

We DO repeat some (critical) stuff you learned previously (but not all)

Topics covered

• Introduction. Seminar: IT Infrastructure and it's components.
• core services: DHCP, DNS, NTP jms.
• web services (from Infra admin point of view)
• Documenting
• Backup and Archive
• Monitoring and log aggregation
• Redundancy and high availability
• Automation
• Virtualization
• Additional themes may add up

Additional files you will need

• enos
• How to prepare router for labs

Course portal for videos

2016

2016

Lectures

• 31.08 Introduction + teamwork video1 video2 [slides]
• 14.09 Introduction to root services: DNS + exercise