Open Source Unix Certification

Description:

The Open Source Unix Certification is a series of 3 classes that will, upon successful completion, result in the awarding of a Certificate of Open Source Unix System Administration. The three classes are:

Introduction to Open source Unix
Unix Administration I
Unix Administration II

Students who maintain an 85% (or higher) grade in each of the 3 classes are candidates for certification. At the completion of the first introduction class, the student will be able to navigate the Unix file system from a command prompt, be able to create and edit files using the vi editor, create and edit web-publishable directories and attain a basic understanding of shell-scripting concepts and practices.

The second class, Unix Administration I, the student will install and learn to administer a Unix workstation. The tasks will include using a compiler to build and install programs and utilities from source code and to use Unix utilities to maintain, backup and restore the workstation. The installation of graphical interface using X windows and the installation of a full functioning desktop environment will also be covered and required in the class.

The 3rd class, Unix Administration II, will cover the skills necessary to maintain a production Unix server in a multi-user, multi-client environment. Emphasis will be on the daily administration tasks required of a proficient system administrator. The student's final project will be to install the Unix operating system on a dedicated machine, install from source code a typical distribution of server-side packages, (Apache, PHP, MySQL, PostgresQL, and others).

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Course Details

Date: 15th of each month, Continuous
Course Length: 30 hours over 4 weeks for each section
Format: Online instruction
Cost: $1,500 per section, or $4000 for the complete track of 3 sections
CEUs: 3 per section (9 for complete track of 3 sections)

Course Length:

Each section contains 4 weeks of instruction and tasks that must be completed within 8 weeks of the start of each class while having maintained an 85% (or above) average in each class section for certification credit to be earned. 9 CEU's from NJIT will also be awarded.

All written requests should be submitted to training@njit.edu.