The Recruiting Infrastructure and Cloud Masterclass

Overview and Objectives:

Another world first for IT recruitment consultants, resourcers and HR professionals looking to build up credibility within today’s IT recruitment arena.

This training will teach you everything you need to know in order to confidently discuss a broad range of IT concepts, strategies, roles
and technologies associated with Infrastructure and Cloud. As well as clarifying the jargon and terminology seen on IT CVs, you will be introduced to some of the newer associated technologies (such as virtualisation BYOD, Cloud, and  Internet of Things) and become more confident in handling all the associated roles in these areas.

The course is designed to give even the most cynical technophobes a warm feeling about the brave new world of the evolving IT architecture in the 21st century. Regardless of your previous occupation or experience with IT, we are confident that we can instill a new passion, energy and credibility, thus giving you that solid foundation as you launch into your new career.

 Course Overview:

IT Infrastructure Basics

• The evolution from Dumb terminal to Virtualised Citrix
• From Dumb terminals to PC
• Client server architecture
• The benefits of thick versus thin
• VDI, Zero client, VmWare and Wyse
• The Citrix Xen family
• 3-tier, n-tier and peer-to-peer

Infrastructure Design

• LAN, CAN, WAN, MAN and PAN
• Topologies
• Pros and Cons of Star, bus, ring and tree topologies

Transmission Mediums

• Copper and CAT
• Fibre and FTTx
• Wireless to 802.11- 2016
• Applications along the architecture
• Advantages and disadvantages of each in network design

The Infra spectrum from Onsite to Cloud

•  When are you truly 
  • Offsite 
  • Offshore 
  • Outsourced 
  • Data Centre 
  • Cloud

Cloud Masterclass

•  The two definitions of ‘virtualisation’ 
  • Virtualisation of the server
  • Virtualisation of the IT department 
• Everything as a service
  • SaaS
  • IaaS
  • DaaS 
  • PaaS
  • xaaS 

Infrastructure Roles

•  Duties of a Systems Administrator

• Looking after the health of a system 
• The elements of ITIL – Book 1 to 5
• The Windows Administrator
  • Powershell
  • Active Directory
  • Batch, SCCM and SCOM
• The Unix Administrator
  • The Kernel and the Shell
  • Shell scripting
  • Bourne, Bourne Again, POSIX and Tenex
  • Patching, user group management
  • Security sweep
• Systems configuration management (SCM)
  • Puppet
  • Chef
  • Akamai
  • OpenStack
•  Continuous Delivery
  • Microservices
  • Containers
  • Clusters
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Maestro-ng
  • Jenkins
  • Fleet

Cloud Case Studies

• Amazon AWS
• Amazon worldwide Cloud Architecture
• Regions and Zones 
• Microsoft Azure
• The Pros and Cons
• The Interfaces of each

Quizzes, group presentations and workshops throughout the day.

Content and sequence may vary slightly at the trainer’s discretion.

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