CompTIA Server+
This CompTIA Server+ course covers the core skills needed to install, configure, manage, secure, and troubleshoot servers in data centers, on-premises environments, and hybrid environments. Training typically combines instructor-led lessons with practical exercises aligned to the SK0-005 exam objectives.
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Description
This CompTIA Server+ course covers the core skills needed to install, configure, manage, secure, and troubleshoot servers in data centers, on-premises environments, and hybrid environments.
Training typically combines instructor-led lessons with practical exercises aligned to the SK0-005 exam objectives. Key topics include server hardware, server operating systems, storage, virtualization, networking, security controls, backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and troubleshooting.
After completion, participants can support server environments more effectively and prepare for the vendor-neutral CompTIA Server+ certification exam.
What You Will Learn
This CompTIA Server+ course follows the SK0-005 exam areas and combines instructor-led lessons, demonstrations, guided labs, and scenario-based exercises. Training balances server concepts with practical administration tasks used in data centers, server rooms, and cloud environments.
Module 1: Server hardware installation and management
Install physical server hardware, including rack layout, cooling, safety, cabling, and power considerations.
Manage storage using HDD, SSD, SAS, SATA, NAS, SAN, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and FCoE concepts.
Perform hardware maintenance with BIOS/UEFI settings, firmware updates, IP KVM, remote console access, hot-swappable drives, fans, cards, and power supplies.
Module 2: Server administration
Install server operating systems using GUI, core, bare metal, virtualized, remote, unattended, and image-based methods.
Configure IP addressing, VLANs, DNS, DHCP, gateways, firewalls, and name resolution.
Maintain server roles such as file, print, database, web, application, and messaging services.
Use monitoring, event logs, SSH, Remote Desktop, PowerShell, Bash, Batch, and basic scripting tasks.
Module 3: Security, backup, and disaster recovery
Apply identity and access management, MFA, SSO, permissions, auditing, and password policies.
Practice server hardening, patching, media destruction, decommissioning, and data protection for PII and PCI DSS contexts.
Compare full, incremental, differential, snapshot, tape, disk, and cloud backups, including restore testing and recovery planning.
Module 4: Troubleshooting
Use a structured troubleshooting method to diagnose hardware, storage, OS, software, network, and security issues.
After completion, participants should be able to support server deployment, administration, recovery, and troubleshooting tasks aligned with CompTIA Server+ objectives.
Certification & Exam
The CompTIA Server+ course prepares participants for the CompTIA Server+ certification exam, SK0-005. The exam validates practical server administration skills, including server hardware installation and management, administration, security, disaster recovery, and troubleshooting.
Candidates complete one exam with up to 90 multiple-choice and performance-based questions, with a 90-minute test time and a passing score of 750. CompTIA recommends CompTIA A+ certification or equivalent knowledge, plus about two years of hands-on experience in a server environment before testing.
After passing the exam, participants earn the vendor-neutral CompTIA Server+ certification from CompTIA. Refer to the official CompTIA Server+ certification page for current exam and certification details.
What You Will Achieve
Install and maintain physical server hardware, including drives, power supplies, fans, cabling, rack components, firmware, BIOS, UEFI, KVM, and IP KVM access.
Configure server operating systems, server roles, storage, network settings, directory connectivity, administrative interfaces, and licensing requirements.
Implement storage and availability practices, including RAID concepts, capacity planning, backups, restore procedures, replication, and high-availability options.
Apply server hardening and security controls, including encryption, MFA, permissions, access control, auditing, physical security, environmental controls, and secure decommissioning.
Analyze monitoring data, event logs, performance baselines, CPU, memory, disk, network, and IOPS metrics to identify server health and capacity issues.
Troubleshoot common server hardware, operating system, storage, network, security, and application issues using a structured problem-solving process.
Evaluate disaster recovery and business continuity requirements, including backup types, recovery objectives, alternate sites, and service restoration priorities.
Prepare for CompTIA Server+ certification topics by practicing skills that map to server hardware installation and management, server administration, security and disaster recovery, and troubleshooting.
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