HOUR 19Role of the Network Administrator
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
• Review of network management jobs and tasks
• Computer networking education and certification
• Key concepts in administrating a computer network
• Ideas on effective project management
A network administrator is the person responsible for ensuring the health and well-being of a network. We’ve examined much of the information that a network administrator must know, such as computer hardware, network protocols, and Network Operating Systems (NOSs). An understanding of this information, coupled with experience and a healthy dose of common sense, enables an administrator to keep the network up and running.
A network administrator may be called by another title. For example, ...
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