This course will cover systems administration in depth. While there are numerous brands of systems in use today, the fundamental architecture remains constant. As such, the practical elements of this course will be based on a single operating system, Linux. Hence some working knowledge in Linux will be helpful. This course will introduce you to the skills, methodologies and activities required to administer a computer system which consists of various hardware, software and users within an organisational infrastructure. In particular, students will be introduced to user, device and file system administration, computer and network security, system monitoring, administrative support tools, network, server and client administration.