System Administration Online Certification Training

System administrator is responsible for setting up and maintaining the system or server. He/she has following responsibilities:

• User administration (setup and maintaining account)
• Maintaining system
• Verify that peripherals are working properly
• Quickly arrange repair for hardware in occasion of hardware failure
• Monitor system performance
• Create file systems
• Install software
• Create a backup and recover policy
• Monitor network communication
• Update system as soon as new version of OS and application software comes out
• Implement the policies for the use of the computer system and network
• Setup security policies for users. A sysadmin must have a strong grasp of computer security (e.g. firewalls and intrusion detection systems)
• Documentation in form of internal wiki
• Password and identity management

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and its is used to transfer information through a network.