The CompTIA Server+ course equips students with the essential knowledge and skills to install, configure, and manage server hardware and operating systems (OSs). It emphasizes the implementation of proper security controls, effective troubleshooting of common server issues, and a solid understanding of key disaster recovery concepts.
The course also prepare students for the SK0-005 exam and covers the following high levels objectives.
Server Hardware Installation and Management
- Given a scenario, install physical hardware.
- Given a scenario, deploy and manage storage.
- Given a scenario, perform server hardware maintenance.
Server Administration
- Given a scenario, install server operating systems.
- Given a scenario, configure servers to use network infrastructure services.
- Given a scenario, configure and maintain server functions and features.
- Explain the key concepts of high availability for servers.
- Summarize the purpose and operation of virtualization.
- Summarize scripting basics for server administration.
- Explain the importance of asset management and documentation.
- Explain licensing concepts.
Security and Disaster Recovery
- Summarize data security concepts.
- Summarize physical security concepts.
- Explain important concepts pertaining to identity and access management for server administration.
- Explain data security risks and mitigation strategies.
- Given a scenario, apply server hardening methods.
- Summarize proper server decommissioning concepts.
- Explain the importance of backups and restores.
- Explain the importance of disaster recovery.
Troubleshooting
- Explain the troubleshooting theory and methodology.
- Given a scenario, troubleshoot common hardware failures.
- Given a scenario, troubleshoot storage problems.
- Given a scenario, troubleshoot common OS and software problems.
- Given a scenario, troubleshoot network connectivity issues.
- Given a scenario, troubleshoot security problems.