AWS Academy Data Center Technician

Self-Study

The AWS Academy Data Center Technician course is designed to help students develop technical expertise in data center operations. This course is for learners enrolled in a data center operations, engineering, or information technology track in a STEM course at a higher education academic institution. This course also helps to re-skill data center professional learners.

$500.00

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

Section 1: Hardware

- Describe a computer, operating system (OS), and program
- Recognize a computer installation, repair tools, and safety rules
- Identify the components of a motherboard, and steps to install or remove one
- Define the functions of a processor in a PC, and the steps to install or remove one
- Define memory in a PC
- Identify the types of storage drives and how to install them
- Define a power supply unit (PSU), and the steps to install and remove one from a PC
- Recognize the functions of a graphics card, and how to install, remove, and troubleshoot one
- Identify basic hardware peripherals

Section 2: Software

- Define OS fundamentals
- Explain the installation of an OS and how to create disk partitions
- Describe OS configuration (including application, drivers, and firewall)
- Describe the installation and configuration of various web browsers, and how to manage them
- Define file systems
- Describe the basics of using the command line interface (CLI)
- Define an OS process and process control block (PCB)
- Define memory, paging, segmentation, and memory swapping
- Define the basic ways to use Microsoft Office

Section 3: Networking

- Identify the fundamentals of networking
- Define the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) model, function of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and function of a Domain Name System (DNS)
- Identify copper networking cables, fiber data cables, and optical fiber transceivers
- Compare the different cabinets and racks used in a data center
- Recognize the process of data transmission through networks
- Understand IP and subnetting

Section 4: Programming

- Describe the basic concepts of structured programming
- Define a string and its use case
- Identify the use of loops in computer programming
- Define an array and the two different methods to assign values to an array

Section 5: Applications and Mathematics

- Identify operations for fractions, powers, percentages and how to convert between decimal, hexadecimal, binary, and octal number systems
- Recognize the basics of databases
- Define logic, probability, and graphs

Section 6: Web Development

- Describe the basics of web development

Course Outline

- Module 01: Hardware Fundamentals
- Module 02: Hardware Used to Work on Computers
- Module 03: Motherboards
- Module 04: Processors
- Module 05: Memory
- Module 06: Storage Drives
- Module 07: Power Supplies
- Module 08: Graphics Cards
- Module 09: Hardware Peripherals
- Module 10: Operating System Fundamentals
- Module 11: Operating System Installation
- Module 12: Operating System Configuration
- Module 13: Web Browsers
- Module 14: File System
- Module 15: Command Line
- Module 16: Processing
- Module 17: Memory Management
- Module 18: Microsoft Office
- Module 19: Networking Fundamentals
- Module 20: Models and Protocols
- Module 21: Network Links
- Module 22: Physical Network
- Module 23: Data Transmission
- Module 24: IP and Subnetting
- Module 25: Programming Fundamentals
- Module 26: Strings
- Module 27: Loops
- Module 28: Arrays
- Module 29: Mathematics Fundamentals
- Module 30: Databases
- Module 31: Logic, Probability, and Graphs
- Module 32: Web Development Fundamentals

COURSE ID:

AWS-DCT-SS

COURSE LENGTH:

16 Weeks

COURSE DELIVERY:

Self-Study or In-Person

RECCOMMENDED PREQUIISITES:

This is an entry-level course, but students should possess general knowledge of mechanical or electrical engineering.

EXAM:

N/A

EXAM VOUCHER:

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