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Institute of Advanced Technological and Commercial Studies

IHETC School of Engineering

Networks and Cloud

The infrastructure everything else stands on.

Entry level
Bachelor's degree
Award
Bachelor's degree
Duration
2 years
Actual work
20 h/week
Pace
Compatible with a job
Tuition
5 600 000 GNF per year

An infrastructure administration programme, from cable to container. It covers enterprise networks as well as cloud architectures, with particular attention to local constraints: power cuts, limited bandwidth, sovereign hosting.

Learning objectives

  • Design and administer a secure enterprise network
  • Deploy and operate services on cloud infrastructure
  • Automate infrastructure configuration as code
  • Guarantee service availability and know how to restore it

Curriculum

1200 hours · 120 credits

Year 1440 hours

  1. Enterprise networks

    240 hours · 24 credits

    The TCP/IP model, switching, routing, VLANs, VPNs, quality of service, monitoring, troubleshooting

  2. Systems administration

    200 hours · 20 credits

    Linux and Windows Server, accounts and rights, services, scripting, backup, logging

Year 2480 hours

  1. Virtualisation and containers

    180 hours · 18 credits

    Hypervisors, containers, orchestration, images, virtual networks, storage

  2. Cloud architectures

    180 hours · 18 credits

    Service models, sizing, high availability, controlling infrastructure cost

  3. Service continuity

    120 hours · 12 credits

    Continuity and recovery planning, backup and restore, power and UPS, failover drills

Cross-curricular, throughout280 hours

  1. Cross-curricular base

    160 hours · 16 credits

    Technical English, applied mathematics, methodology

  2. Workshop and placement

    120 hours · 12 credits

    Documented build of a complete infrastructure · ten-week placement · publicly defended

Real prerequisite

What follows is assumed and will not be explained again. If most of it is foreign to you, this is not the right entry point — better to know now than at the final assessment.

Networking basics — addressing, DNS — and comfort with the command line. The opening module assumes both.

Entry requirements

  • Science or technical high school diploma, or IT experience
  • Some operating system knowledge is a plus
  • Motivation interview

Career outcomes

  • Systems and network administrator
  • Cloud engineer
  • Infrastructure technician
  • Site reliability engineer
  • Data centre administrator

Skills acquired

  • Linux
  • TCP/IP
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Monitoring

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Networks and Cloud — IHETC