Network Admin to Site Reliability Engineer

Course fee

Cost: R4 800.00

Deposit: R1 200.00

Monthly instalments: R900.00 x 4

Duration: You will have Skillsoft access to this course for 12 months. The average time required to work through the syllabus is:

• 49 courses (48h 53m)
• Optional additional resources are available to enhance your learning in your own time.

About the course

Course code: C01386

Course overview:

• Track 1: Network Admin
• Track 2: DevOps Engineer
• Track 3: Chaos Engineer
• Track 4: Site Reliability Engineer

What are Aspire Journeys?

Aspire Journeys are guided learning paths designed and published by Skillsoft. These courses provide:

• A clear starting point across the roles and responsibilities of tomorrow.
• Exercises for on-the-job applications to put what you’ve learned into practice.
• Verifiable, shareable, and portable digital badges so you can celebrate accomplishments along the way.
• A diverse array of learning tools from the books to audiobooks to video courses, and more.

The learning path for each journey comprises tracks of content in a recommended order. Completing all content within a track completes the track. Completing all tracks within the journey completes the journey.

Modules and topics covered:

Track 1: Network Admin

• Site Reliability: Engineering
• Site Reliability: Tools & Automation
• OS Deployment Strategies: Upgrading & Maintaining Systems
• OS Deployment Strategies: Deploying Modern Systems
• OS Deployment Strategies: Maintaining & Managing Modern Systems
• Backup & Recovery: Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Backup & Recovery: Enterprise Backup Strategies
• Backup & Recovery: Windows Client Backup and Recovery Tools
• Describing Distributed Systems
• Monitoring Distributed Systems
• Site Reliability Engineering: Scenario Planning
• Final Exam: Network Admin

Track 2: DevOps Engineer

• Build & Release Engineering Best Practices: Release Engineering
• Build & Release Engineering Best Practices: Release Management
• Best Practices for the SRE: Automation
• Best Practices for the SRE: Use Cases for Automation
• SRE Simplicity: Software System Complexity
• SRE Simplicity: Simple Software Systems
• SRE Postmortums: Blameless Postmortem Culture Creation
• Cloud and Containers for the SRE: Cloud Architectures & Solutions
• Cloud and Containers for the SRE: Containers
• Cloud and Containers for the SRE: Implementing Container Solutions
• Final Exam: SRE DevOps Engineer

Track 3: Chaos Engineer

• SRE Troubleshooting Processes
• SRE Troubleshooting: Tools
• SRE Emergency & Incident Response: Responding to Emergencies
• SRE Emergency & Incident Response: Incident Response
• SRE Testing Tasks: Software Reliability & Testing
• SRE Testing Tasks: Testing Considerations
• SRE Load Balancing Techniques: Front-end Load Balancing
• SRE Load Balancing Techniques: Data Center Load Balancing
• Site Reliability Engineer: Managing Overloads
• Site Reliability Engineer: Managing Cascading Failures
• Distributed Reliability: SRE Critical State Management
• Distributed Reliability: SRE Distributed Periodic Scheduling
• SRE Data Pipelines & Integrity: Data Pipelines
• SRE Data Pipelines & Integrity: Pipeline Design
• SRE Data Pipelines & Integrity: Data Integrity
• SRE Products at Scale: Product Launches
• Final Exam: Chaos Engineer

Track 4: Site Reliability Engineer

• SRE Team Management: Scaling the Team
• SRE Team Management: Managing Operational Loads
• SRE Team Management: Operational Overload
• Core Skills for Site Reliability Engineers: SRE Collaboration & Communication
• SRE Metric Management: Software Reliability Metrics
• SRE Metric Management: Software Reliability Monitoring and Reporting
• SRE Engagement: Production Readiness Review
• SRE Engagement: The SRE Engagement Model
• Final Exam: Site Reliability Engineer

Admission requirements

Academic grade: No minimum school pass requirements or formal prerequisites, but recommend the following prerequisite skills:

• Familiar with Site Reliability Engineering
• Familiar with Networking
• Familiar with DevOps

Language: Proficiency in English (course material and support only available in English).

Expertise level: Beginner

Equipment: Access to a PC or laptop with a reliable internet connection.

Effort: Self-paced learning online.

Accreditation status

Course type: Short course

Industry partner: Skillsoft

Certification: Certificate confirming course completion.

Certification issued by: College SA

Assessment details

Each track concludes with a final internal exam that will test your knowledge and application of the topics presented throughout that specific track.

There are no external certification exams for this course.

What to expect

Dedicated support team

We understand that students may require guidance and support to navigate the learning journey, and our Client Services team is always ready to assist them in every possible way. Our team is readily available during office hours and can be contacted via email, phone, WhatsApp and social media.

Skillsoft Learner Management System (LMS) access

Skillsoft is an online learning management system that offers all students enrolled for any of our IT Academy courses compelling content, interactive videos, quizzes, mentoring and practical simulations/virtual labs. The platform allows students to learn at their own pace.