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Network Administration and Cybersecurity Career Certificate
Network Administration and Cybersecurity Career Certificate
at College of Lake County
Chicago Catalog
Learn how to keep networks secure from outside intrusion and how to secure evidence if network security has been breached. A Network Administration and Security Certificate takes four semesters and prepares you for a career in designing and administering computer networks. You gain skills needed to run a secure IT environment, including how to:
- configure systems and software
- maintain networked devices, software and systems
- troubleshoot networking devices, protocols and servers
- assess cybersecurity threats
- design defenses This certificate prepares you to work in programming, computer science or related fields.
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Network and Computer Systems Administrators
Install, configure, and maintain an organization's local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), data communications network, operating systems, and physical and virtual servers. Perform system monitoring and verify the integrity and availability of hardware, network, and server resources and systems. Review system and application logs and verify completion of scheduled jobs, including system backups. Analyze network and server resource consumption and control user access. Install and upgrade software and maintain software licenses. May assist in network modeling, analysis, planning, and coordination between network and data communications hardware and software.
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$55,630
$86,610
$134,210
$26.74
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