Curriculum Design and Instruction To Teach
Linux Administration: Bunch O' Stuff:
Management, Policy, and Politics:
Author: Charles Hayes:
This curriculum design and
instruction is for the Linux
administrator who must
efficiently solve technical
problems and maximize the
reliability and performance
of a production environment.
It addresses today's most
important Linux distributions
and most powerful new administrative
tools. It spells out detailed best
practices for every facet of system
administration, including storage
management, network design and
administration, web hosting,
software configuration management,
performance analysis, Windows
interoperability,m and much more.
Systems administrators will expecially
appreciate the thourough and up-to-date
subject of such topics such as DNS, LDAP,
secrutiy, and the Management of IT service
organizations:
Special Features Include:
* Phases For Conducting A Needs Assessment:
* Curriculum Design Supplement:
* Curriculum Design Plan:
* Lesson Plans:
* Instructional Goals:
* Instructional Objectives:
* Instructional Activities:
* Instructional Evaluation Techniques:
* Standard Vocabulary:
* A Limited Glimpse:
Topics Include:
* Bunch O' Stuff:
@ Management, Policy, and Politics:
A. Introduction:
B. Make Everyone happy:
C. components of a functional IT
organization:
D. The role of management:
1. Leadership:
2. Hiring, firing, and personnel
management:
3. Assigning and tracking tasks:
4. Managing upper management:
5. Conflict resolution:
E. The role of administration:
1. Sales:
2. Purchasing:
3. Accounting:
4. Personnel:
5. Marketing:
6. Miscellaneous administrative chores:
F. The role of development:
1. Architectural principles:
2. Anatomy of a management system:
3. The system administrator's tool box:
4. Software engineering principles:
G. The role of operations:
1. Aim for minimal downtime:
2. Document dependencies:
3. Repurpose or eliminate older hardware:
H. The work of support:
1. Availability:
2. Scope of service:
3. Skill sets:
4. Time management:
I. Documentation:
1. Standardized documentation:
2. Hardware labeling:
3. User documentation:
J. Request-tracking and trouble-reporting
systems:
1. Common functions of trouble ticket systems:
2. User acceptance of ticketing systems:
3. Ticketing systems:
4. Ticket dispatching:
K. Disaster recovery:
1. Backups and Off-line information:
2. Staffing your disaster:
3. Power and HVAC:
4. Network redundancy:
5. Security incidents:
6. Second-hand stories from the
World Trade Center:
L. Written policy:
1. Encryption:
2. Copyright:
3. Privacy:
4. Click-through EULAs:
5. Policy enforcement:
6. Control=liability:
7. Software licenses:
8. Regulatory compliance:
M. Software patents:
N. Standards:
1. LSB: the Linux Standard Base:
2. POSIX:
3. ITIL: the Information Technology
Interface Library:
O. Linux culture:
P. Mainstream Linux:
Q. Organizations, conferences, and other
resources:
1. Conferences and trade shows:
2. LPI: the Linux Professional Institute:
3. Mailing lists and web resources:
4. Sysadmin surveys:
R. Recommended Reading:
* STATE OF THE ART CURRICULUM DESIGN:
* NEW:
* REFERENCES:
* ILLUSTRATIONS:
* PHOTOS:
* PAPERBACK:
* TRANSPARENT FRONT PAGE:
* TITLE PAGE:
* BLACK OR WHITE BACK PAGE COVER:
* 8 TO 10 INCH FONTS:
* BINDED: B OR W OR COLOR COIL: WIRE-0:
* 150 WHITE PAGES: 8x11 INCHES:
* ALLOW 10 TO 14 DAYS TO RECEIVE ITEM:
* ORDER EARLY WHILE SUPPLIES LAST:
