CompTIA Server+ Course

There is no compulsory prerequisite.

CompTIA recommends around nine to twelve months of hands-on server or IT hardware experience, and a foundation equivalent to A+ or Network+ helps.

Candidates can achieve this certification by passing the following exam(s).

• SK0-005

The SK0-005 exam includes multiple choice and performance-based questions and is graded pass or fail. The official exam fee is included in your course price.

The exam can be registered and attempted within three months of course or module completion at a Logitrain training centre, at a local Pearson VUE test centre, or online.

CompTIA Server+ Study Guide

• Install and manage server hardware and storage, including RAID
• Administer server operating systems and services
• Apply virtualisation in physical, virtual and hybrid environments
• Secure servers and apply disaster recovery practices
• Troubleshoot server hardware, software, network and storage issues

This course is likely to add to the employment related skills of the participants. The skills developed are likely to be used in the course of being an employee or working in a business.

Following people can attend the CompTIA Server+ certification training course:

• Server administrators
• Data centre and infrastructure technicians
• IT support staff moving into server roles
• Systems administrators
• Anyone responsible for server hardware and operations

• Installing physical hardware, including server form factors such as tower, rack and blade, and the core components of CPU, memory, bus types, expansion cards, network cards and drives
• Power and environment, covering redundant power supplies, uninterruptible power supplies, power distribution units, cooling and airflow, rack units, mounting, cable management and physical safety
• Storage deployment and management, covering RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10, capacity planning, hot-swappable drives and hot spares, storage interfaces such as SAS, SATA and Fibre Channel, and storage architectures including direct attached storage, network attached storage and storage area networks
• Server hardware maintenance, including out-of-band management and IPMI, KVM access, firmware and BIOS updates, drive and component replacement, and safe handling against electrostatic discharge
• Installing server operating systems, covering Windows Server and major Linux distributions, installation methods such as local, network and unattended or scripted installs, partitioning schemes, and common file systems
• Configuring servers to use network infrastructure services, including IP configuration, DNS, DHCP, time synchronisation and remote access
• Configuring and maintaining server roles and features, including monitoring tools, log management and performance baselines
• High availability concepts, covering clustering in active to active and active to passive configurations, load balancing, fault tolerance and failover
• Virtualisation, covering type one and type two hypervisors, the difference between virtual machines and containers, resource allocation, and the relationship between host and guest
• Scripting basics for administration, covering common languages such as PowerShell and Bash, basic constructs, variables and comments, and where automation helps
• Asset management, documentation and licensing, covering inventory, labelling, warranty and the main licensing models you will meet in a server environment
• Data security concepts, covering encryption of data at rest and in transit, and data classification
• Physical security methods for server rooms and data centres, including access control, locks, biometrics and surveillance
• Server hardening, covering operating system and application hardening, disabling unnecessary services and ports, and a disciplined patching approach
• Server decommissioning, covering secure data wiping, media destruction and responsible disposal
• Backup and restore, covering full, incremental, differential and snapshot backups, backup media and rotation, the three two one principle, retention, and the importance of testing restores rather than assuming they work
• Disaster recovery, covering hot, warm and cold sites, replication, recovery time and recovery point objectives, disaster recovery testing and business continuity
• Troubleshooting methodology, working through identifying the problem, establishing and testing a theory, planning and implementing a fix, verifying the result, and documenting what was done
• Hardware troubleshooting, covering power-on self-test errors, memory, processor and drive failures, overheating and power faults
• Storage troubleshooting, covering RAID failures, capacity and performance issues and storage connectivity
• Operating system and software troubleshooting, covering boot failures, service problems, patch issues and performance
• Network connectivity troubleshooting, covering IP configuration, name resolution, ports and firewalls
• Security troubleshooting, covering permissions, authentication failures and the early signs of compromise

We highly recommend spending ample time on self-study during this course, reviewing each domain and practising the hands-on tasks, so you are well prepared for the SK0-005 exam

If you would like to get started, the full CompTIA Server+ course details and dates are at logitrain.com.au, or call the team on 1800 159 151 to talk through the right format for you

Which exam does this course prepare me for?
The current exam, SK0-005, the only valid version of Server+.

Is the exam fee included?
Yes. The official SK0-005 exam fee is included in the course price.

Do I need A+ or Network+ first?
Neither is compulsory, but a foundation equivalent to A+ or Network+ helps, along with around nine to twelve months of hands-on server experience.

What jobs does Server+ lead to?
Server administrator, data centre technician, infrastructure and systems administration roles.

Is Server+ still worth doing?
Yes. It remains a current, vendor-neutral certification that covers physical, virtual and hybrid server environments, which is what most workplaces run.

Can I do Server+ online?
Yes. You can train live online in real time with a trainer from anywhere in Australia, or in person in Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane.