Training for Network Managers

        By Mike Wright, Microcomputer Computer Systems Manager (wright1@cc1.unt.edu)

        Training on the new NetWare 4.1 operating system has already begun with the first group of network managers having started on February 20, 1995 for three full weeks of courses. The initial offering includes four courses which provide a base for understanding the new operating system. These courses are:

        • NetWare 4.X Administration,
        • NetWare Directory Services Design,
        • NetWare 4.X Installation & Configuration,
        • NetWare 4.X Advanced Administration.

        After a series of these courses have been offered to the network managers, the two remaining courses will be taught. They are:

        • NetWare Service and Support
        • Networking Technologies.

        The cost of training each network manager is approximately 1/20 of what a student would pay for these courses in the market place. This translates into a cost savings to the University of more than 95% per student over prices of commercially available courses. Each attendee receives a certificate upon completion of each course and may then take Novell s nationally administered test at an independent testing site for CNE certification.. Each test costs $85.00 for which the students must pay themselves. If they achieve the necessary minimum score on all the tests in a curriculum, they will be awarded their CNE by Novell.

        The classes are being held in a new training facility in the Information Sciences Building jointly created by the School of Library and Information Sciences and the Computing Center (ISB 203). The facility, which has state of the art equipment, is designed in such a way as to present the best possible combination to the learner of instructor-led software training and classical lecturing.

        This kind of effort by the University to provide the technical training needed to maintain its strategic technical infrastructure demonstrates to its peers and to the community at large that we value not only what we can do to educate and empower others but we also value what we can do to further the technological understanding of our own. Through programs such as these, the University of North Texas continues to demonstrate its technological leadership as it moves into the twenty-first century.


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