I803 IT Infrastructure services

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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

Updated soon

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 information

Course portal for videos

2016

2016

Lectures

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