- Course
- Core Tech
Introduction to Business Information Technology
Learn about the IT industry, and the skills that you need to score your first IT job.
What you'll learn
This course will give you a high level technical overview of the IT industry - its classification, how things work in organizations, core components of an infrastructure like server and services, networking, and storage. Then we'll cover the essentials of software development where you'll get to know about the most popular types of applications, languages, and platforms. The target audience of this course are people who are new to IT, want to learn about the bits and pieces of the IT industry, and want to understand the skills required to get their first job, on their way to pursue a career in IT.
Table of contents
- Agenda | 2m 26s
- Core Components of an Infrastructure | 1m 34s
- Client Server Model | 3m 7s
- Operating Systems | 4m 47s
- Servers and Services Overview - Types of Server Hardware | 2m 39s
- Directory Services Server | 2m 4s
- File and Print Servers | 2m 4s
- Web Servers | 1m 35s
- Database Servers | 3m 4s
- Email Servers | 1m 55s
- Communication Servers | 2m 17s
- Remote Desktop | 1m 40s
- Networking Overview - TCP/IP | 3m 17s
- Computer Names, IP Addresses, MAC Addresses, and Ports | 1m 42s
- Types of Networking Hardware | 1m 47s
- DHCP Servers and DNS Servers | 2m 31s
- Firewalls, Perimeter Networks, and VPNs | 2m 24s
- Storage Overview - Types of Storage Hardware | 1m 32s
- DAS, SAN, and NAS Comparison | 2m 3s
- RAID Configurations | 1m 44s
- Summary | 54s
About the author
Kunal D Mehta is a Microsoft and VMware certified IT Pro specializing in Core Infrastructure solutions, Virtualization, and Cloud. When he's not configuring clusters or provisioning VMs, he prefers hanging out with friends, watching movies, and going on long drives or pranking people. Kunal loves surprises and hates "Access Denied" messages.