Course Overview
In today’s IT environment, a wide variety of server equipment must be planned, secured, and maintained. The CompTIA Server+ certification validates the skills of IT professionals. The CompTIA Server+ credential boosts IT professionals’ performance across all sizes of businesses. The CompTIA Server+ certification validates your knowledge of server and storage systems that are commonly used in the IT industry. By demonstrating this certification, businesses are able to narrow their skills gaps and gain hands-on experience.
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Course Syllabus
- Describing Network Models
- Identifying Common Server Types and Functions
- Describing System Boards
- Describing Processors
- Describing Memory
- Exploring SCSI Devices
- Exploring IDE/ATA Devices
- Describing RAID
- Exploring NAS Implementations
- Exploring SAN Implementations
- Exploring the Communication Subsystem
- Exploring the Power Subsystem
- Exploring the Input/Output Subsystem
- Planning for Server Installation
- Identifying Data-Transmission Media Types
- Installing Hardware into a Server
- Installing Servers into an Environment
- Verifying the Server Installation
- Configuring RAID
- Network Operating System Installation
- Configuring External Peripheral Devices
- Installing System Monitoring Agents and Service Tools
- Documenting the Server
- Backing Up Server Data
- Baselining Servers and Monitor Server Performance
- Performing Physical Housecleaning
- Creating and Using Upgrade Checklists
- Adding and Replacing Hardware
- Upgrading Server Software
- Evaluating Physical Security
- Evaluating Server Room Environment
- Performing Problem Determination
- Using Diagnostic Tools
- Identifying Bottlenecks
- Appendix A: Mapping Element K Course Content to the CompTIA Server+ Exam Objectives
Skills Gained
- Explore server fundamentals
- Describe the characteristics of the system processing core subsystem
- Describe storage system components, so that you can effectively implement several types of storage solutions
- Explore the communication, power, and input/output subsystems
- Install servers
- Configure servers
- Maintain servers
- Upgrade server components
- Explore environmental issues surrounding servers
- Troubleshoot servers
- Explore disaster recovery concepts and technique
Comptia certification career pathway
prerequisites
To ensure your success with this course, you should also take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge:
- A+ Certification: Core Hardware Third Edition – A CompTIA Certification
- A+ Certification: Operating Systems Third Edition – A CompTIA Certification
- Network+ Certification Fourth Edition – A CompTIA Certification
Soft skills
Soft skills are important to business continuity and growth of an organization and if employees lack essential soft skills, they might not be able to adequately fulfill the responsibilities of leadership or team collaboration, even if they possess the necessary technical proficiency. Considering this, and the industry requirement to address, we are focusing on building some of these below mentioned soft skills of our learners based on the level of education, work experience and role.
- Interview handling
- Stress and Conflict management
- Importance of global communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Setting the priority
- Delightful Customer experience
- Communicating etiquette
- Working with teams
- Customer allegiance
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