SysAdmin

Python C
Learn a programing language
It doesn’t matter which language you pick, key is to get
Ruby some programing knowledge for automation C++

Memory & Storage

RBAC Management
Startup Management
(initd)
Process Management File Systems

I/O Management
Threads & Concurrency
Understand different OS concepts
Virtualization
Sockets

OS logs screen
POSIX Basics
Service Management
(systemd) user & kernel space
Networking Concepts tmux

SUSE Linux Terminal Multiplexers

Learn about Managing Servers
Get some administration knowledge in some OS. Go
Debian Operating Systems with any Linux distro, pick Ubuntu if you have no
Learn to live with Terminal
experience with Linux
Fedora Bash
Linux FreeBSD
Ubuntu Text Manipulation Tools Learn Text Editor
Shell
awk, sed, grep, sort, uniq, cat, cut, vi or vim, nano, emacs
Unix OpenBSD echo, fmt, tr, nl, egrep, fgrep, wc
CentOS Compiling apps from source PowerShell
Windows NetBSD Process Monitoring gcc, make, and other related stuff
RHEL
ps, top, htop, atop, lsof
System Performance
nmon, iostat, sar, vmstat
Network
nmap, tcpdump, ping, mtr, traceroute,
dig, airmon, airodump, iptables, netstat
Others
Networking, Security, and Protocols strace, dtrace, sytstemtap, uname, df,
history, lsblk

Email HTTP Servers CPU DIMM Disks

Identity service
management
IPMI HTTPS PSU PCIE devices
VPN
DHCP FTP
Know how data center equipment works RAID BBUs Cache
RedFish Storages
Switching SSL/TLS Performance, IOPS,
Data transfer protocols
VLAN Fibre Channel, SCSI, ISCSI, Latency, Throughput
access, trunk, hybrid, IPV4, IPV6, DNS FCoE, NVMe-oF, ROCE
QinQ subnetting
SSH
NTP TCP/IP Networks Firewalls Load balancers Routers
Port forwading
Clusters OSI 7 Layers Switches
SNMP
Building SOPs Security &
Data center access
facilities
Inter and intra
connectivities Power

Learn how to monitor infrastructure Rack Cooling Water

Fire
HAVC
suppression
Infrastructure Logs Management
Monitoring
Automation & orchestration
SIEM Papertrail
Prometheus Zabbix
Infrastructure Orchestration IPAM Elastic stack
provisioning tools Datadog Monit
Graylog
Grafana Nagios
Terraform Ansible Puppet Splunk
Cacti
CloudFormation Chef Saltstack

Pulumi Juju

Equipment Life Cycle Management

Architecting and Capacity Design
Asset
Procure
Management DC power &
Data management
cooling mgmt
Dispose Maintain
Design &
implementation
Security from
physical to data Keep Learning
level
Management and
monitoring Compute &
storage capacity
assessment
Reliability,
availability,
maintainability, Cost
and safety for
systems
Risk management