PC Maintenance Syllabus
- Important definitions
- Tenets of information assurance
- Digital Citizenship
- Information systems fundamentals
- Advantages and disadvantages of virtual machines VMware
- How to start a virtual machine
- An introduction to Windows operating systems
- Firewalls
- Security tools and policies
- A primer on types of cyber threats
- Common vulnerabilities
- Remediation strategies
- Patches
- System monitoring
- Auditing
- Common network devices and protocols
- DNS
- Network configuration tools
- An introduction to Unix
- Linux Flavors
- General Unix security practices
- Password best practices
- Password security guidelines
- Password strength policies in Windows and Unix