🖥️ CompTIA Certified Server+ Training

Install, administer, secure and troubleshoot servers — and pass the CompTIA Server+ (SK0-005) exam.

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About This Course

The WSQ CompTIA Certified Server+ Training is a hands-on, instructor-led course that prepares you to install, configure, secure and troubleshoot server hardware and operating systems — both on-premises and in the cloud — and to sit the CompTIA Server+ SK0-005 certification exam. Over three days you work through 33 practical labs aligned to the four official exam domains, all on the free browser-based Killercoda Ubuntu playground — no local install or physical hardware required.

It is designed for IT support staff, system administrators, data-centre technicians and anyone responsible for keeping servers running who wants a vendor-neutral server administration credential.

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Learning Outcomes

#	On completion, you will be able to
LO1	Install and manage server hardware — racking, cabling, power and cooling; deploy and manage storage (RAID, shared storage, capacity planning); and maintain hardware with out-of-band management and firmware upgrades.
LO2	Administer server operating systems and services — OS installation, partitions and file systems, IP/DNS/DHCP/VLANs, server roles, monitoring, high availability, virtualization, scripting and asset management.
LO3	Secure servers and plan for disaster recovery — data and physical security, identity and access management, mitigation strategies, server hardening, decommissioning, backup and recovery.
LO4	Troubleshoot server hardware, software, storage, OS and network problems using a structured methodology, and validate disaster-recovery and failover readiness.

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Course Topics & Labs

Each lab lives in its own file under labs/ with full step-by-step commands and reference links.

Domain 1 — Server Hardware Installation and Management (18%)

#	Lab
1	Server Form Factors, Racking, and Power Planning
2	Storage Deployment with mdadm (RAID 0/1/5/6/10)
3	LVM Provisioning and Capacity Planning
4	Shared Storage with NFS and iSCSI
5	Out-of-Band Management, BIOS/UEFI, and Firmware

Domain 2 — Server Administration (30%)

#	Lab
6	Installing a Linux Server (Unattended/Scripted)
7	Partitions, Volumes, and File Systems
8	IP, DNS, DHCP, and FQDN Configuration
9	Firewall and Port Management
10	Server Roles: Web, File, and Database
11	Directory Services with OpenLDAP
12	Performance Monitoring and Baselining
13	Data Migration and Transfer (rsync, scp, SFTP)
14	High Availability: Load Balancing and NIC Teaming
15	Virtualization with KVM/QEMU
16	Bash Scripting for Server Administration
17	Asset Management, Documentation, and Licensing

Domain 3 — Security and Disaster Recovery (24%)

#	Lab
18	Data at Rest (LUKS) and In Transit (TLS/SSH)
19	Physical and Environmental Security Walk-Through
20	Identity & Access: Users, Groups, sudo, RBAC
21	Multi-Factor Authentication with TOTP
22	Auditing, Logging, and SIEM Basics
23	OS and Application Hardening
24	Patch and Update Management
25	Secure Decommissioning and Media Destruction
26	Backup Strategy: Full, Incremental, Differential, Snapshots
27	Disaster Recovery: Replication and Site Failover

Domain 4 — Troubleshooting (28%)

#	Lab
28	Troubleshooting Methodology Walk-Through
29	Hardware Troubleshooting (dmesg, smartctl, sensors)
30	Storage Troubleshooting (fsck, badblocks, mdadm)
31	OS and Software Troubleshooting (systemd, logs)
32	Network Connectivity Troubleshooting
33	Security Troubleshooting (ports, processes, integrity)

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Tools

Every lab runs inside a disposable Ubuntu VM in the browser — all software is free (open source or free tier).

Tool	Purpose
Killercoda Ubuntu Playground	Disposable Linux VM in the browser — the environment for all 33 labs
IP Calculator	Subnet and IP planning (Labs 8, 32)
Cybersecurity Simulator	Interactive security concepts practice
PCAP Analyzer	Packet-capture analysis for network troubleshooting
Regex Generator	Build and test regular expressions for log parsing and scripting
mdadm, lvm2, parted, smartmontools	Storage — RAID, LVM, partitioning, disk health
dmidecode, lshw, ipmitool, fwupd	Hardware inspection and out-of-band management
bind9, isc-dhcp-server, ufw, tcpdump, mtr	Networking and diagnostics
nginx, samba, mariadb, slapd, qemu-kvm, haproxy	Server roles, virtualization and high availability
cryptsetup, auditd, lynis, restic, nwipe	Security, hardening, backup and secure decommissioning

Full inventory: labs/tools.md.

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Repository Structure

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├── README.md                                   ← this course landing page
├── courseware/                                 ← trainer slide deck, Lesson Plan & Learner Guide
│   ├── CompTIA Certified Server Plus Training-v4.1.pptx / .pdf   ← trainer slide deck
│   ├── LP-CompTIA Certified Server Plus Training.docx / .pdf     ← Lesson Plan
│   ├── LG-CompTIA Certified Server Plus Training.docx / .pdf     ← Learner Guide
│   └── LG-CompTIA Certified Server Plus Training.md              ← Learner Guide (Markdown mirror)
├── comptiaserverplus.pdf                       ← official SK0-005 exam blueprint
└── labs/                                        ← 33 hands-on labs, each in its own folder
    └── lab-NN-<slug>/                           ← guide (.md) + guidelines/cheatsheet/worksheet PDFs
        ├── data/                                ← CSV + Excel mock data (data-bearing labs)
        └── assets/ · scripts/                   ← Dockerfiles, Kubernetes YAML, shell scripts

Note: the confidential assessment/ folder (question papers + answer keys) is not part of this repository — it is distributed only via the LMS and Google Drive.

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Course Details

Course Title	CompTIA Certified Server+ Training
WSQ Course Code	TGS-2024048318
Certification Exam	CompTIA Server+ (SK0-005)
Duration	3 days · 8 training hours per day (24 hours)
Mode	Instructor-led, hands-on labs on the Killercoda Ubuntu playground
Assessment	Written Assessment (WA / SAQ, 1 hour) + Practical Performance (PP, 1 hour) — both open book
Provider	Tertiary Infotech Academy Pte Ltd (UEN 201200696W)

Funding

This course is WSQ-funded and eligible for SSG/SkillsFuture subsidies. See the course registration page for the latest fees, funding tiers and available course dates.

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Building the Courseware

The slide deck, Lesson Plan and Learner Guide are all generated from a single source (course_data.py + data_domainN.py) so they stay 100% aligned with the labs:

# from the course repo root, with the WSQ toolchain installed under .claude/
python3 .claude/skills/courseware-build/build/build_slides.py         # slide deck
python3 .claude/skills/courseware-build/build/build_lesson_plan.py    # Lesson Plan
python3 .claude/skills/courseware-build/build/build_learner_guide.py  # Learner Guide (+ Markdown mirror)

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Contact

• 🌐 Register / course page: https://www.tertiarycourses.com.sg/wsq-comptia-certified-server-training.html
• ✉️ Email: enquiry@tertiaryinfotech.com
• ☎️ Tel: +65 6100 0613
• 🎓 LMS / TMS: https://lms-tms.tertiaryinfotech.com

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