Versa Global's IT Infrastructure Engineer Program teaches five connected skill sets across 250 hours: hardware and networking, Windows Server 2022, Cisco CCNA, Microsoft Azure administration and Microsoft Office 365 administration. Together they cover what an IT administrator in a GCC company does in a normal week. Here is what each module involves and where it leads.
What Do I Learn in Hardware and Networking?
The foundations: PC installation and configuration, hardware maintenance and troubleshooting, boot issues, partitions and operating-system installs, network fundamentals, cable crimping, and setting up a basic LAN with routers, switches and a firewall. This is the module that makes the program workable for people without an IT background.
What Does the Windows Server 2022 Module Cover?
Installation, upgrades and migration; storage services; Hyper-V virtualisation; and the core services every Windows network depends on — Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, FTP, IIS and DFS. You also cover network load balancing, RAID, backup, disaster recovery and performance tuning. These are the daily tools of a System Administrator.
What Is CCNA and Why Do Employers Value It?
CCNA is Cisco's associate-level networking certification and one of the most widely recognised entry credentials in networking. The module covers IP addressing, subnetting and VLSM, router and switch configuration, static and dynamic routing, NAT, PAT and ACLs, VLANs, trunking and inter-VLAN routing, and port security. It leads towards Network Administrator and network support roles.
What Does a Microsoft Azure Administrator Do?
Manages an organisation's cloud environment: identities and governance, storage, virtual machines and containers, virtual networking and load balancing, monitoring, backup and site recovery. The module also covers automating deployments with ARM templates and Bicep. It points towards Microsoft Cloud Administrator roles.
Why Is Office 365 Administration a Separate Skill?
Because email and collaboration are business-critical and need their own administration: deploying and managing a Microsoft 365 tenant, Microsoft Entra identity, security with Microsoft Defender, compliance with Microsoft Purview, users, groups and roles, and migrating mailboxes from Exchange, Zoho or other platforms. This is the work of a Microsoft Messaging Administrator.
Which Certifications Are Included?
Three certification exams are included in the AED 23,500 program fee at no extra cost: MCSE Azure, Office 365 and CCNA Routing & Switching — a combined AED 6,500 in exam fees.
How Is This Different From Watching Courses Online?
You train on real servers, switches, routers, storage and firewalls, with remote server and cloud labs for online learners, and you work alongside MACOB IT Solutions' team on live client work in Dubai. Assessment includes three capstone projects, and a 7-stage career-readiness track runs alongside the technical modules.
Read the full curriculum on the IT Infrastructure Engineer Program page.
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