OS Architecture
Describe the purposes, types, components, functions and inter-relationships of operating systems (desktop, mobile, and enterprise). Describe how hardware enables and integrates with this functionality.
OS Subsystems
Describe how OS sub-systems work (scheduling, memory management, etc).
OS Practice
Demonstrate an ability to work with Operating Systems by installing, compiling, configuring, and optimizing real and virtual systems. Describe Scalability issues.
Information Assurance and Security
Describe common IAS concepts related to system administration. Describe system administration aspects of IAS, including authentication, directory services and access control models.
OS Distribution and Virtualization
Describe distributed/virtualization computing concepts. Implement some distributed services in an enterprise environment.
Development
Independently create systems that are in developing fields or applications of OS and system administration.