Changes in the Undergraduate System Administration Specialization
Starting in fall of 2014, the undergraduate Specialization in System Administration will see a significant change. The existing curriculum features two six-credit-hour courses, ITMO 451 and ITMO 452. ITMO 451 is essentially a Windows system administrator course, while ITMO 452 has been a UNIX sysadmin course taught using Solaris UNIX. As of fall, ITMO 456, Introduction to Open Source Operating Systems, will replace the existing ITM 302 Hardware and Operating Systems II requirement for all students and will form the foundation of the System Administration specialization, which will add three new three-credit-hour system administration courses (a similar change will be reflected in the Graduate specialization as well.) The revised undergraduate specialization will then look like this:
System Administration
Focuses on the administration and management of servers.
ITMO 441 Network Applications and Operations
AND select two courses from the following:
ITMO 450 Enterprise End-User System Administration
ITMO 451 Enterprise Server Administration
ITMO 453 Open Source Server Administration
AND select two courses from the following:
ITMO 417 Shell Scripting for System Administrators
ITMO 444 Cloud Computing Technologies
ITMO 454 Operating System Virtualization
ITMS 458 Operating System Security