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About the Course

In this course -- through a combination of video lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on practice -- you’ll learn about the main components of an operating system and how to perform critical tasks like managing software and users, and configuring hardware. By the end of this course you’ll be able to: ● navigate the Windows and Linux filesystems using a graphical user interface and command line interpreter ● set up users, groups, and permissions for account access ● install, configure, and remove software on the Windows and Linux operating systems ● configure disk partitions and filesystems ● understand how system processes work and how to manage them ● work with system logs and remote connection tools ● utilize operating system knowledge to troubleshoot common issues in an IT Support Specialist role...

Top reviews

SG

Nov 27, 2021

Great course, lots of very challenging and useful information. You'll learn about Linux and some of the inner workings of Windows, plus lots of tools and programs that are really useful. Great course!

JB

Dec 27, 2020

This course was very informative and challenging. I really appreciate the way the course was put together. It would be ore helpful if the links to the readings were from material other than Wikipedia.

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By Robin E

Apr 11, 2023

This was very challenging and I'm eager to get a position and use these new skills that I have attained

By Ronald D G

Sep 1, 2022

Very informative, very challenging, depending on yourself to put the time in, no one can do it for you.

By Isaac A M C

Apr 8, 2022

Fue muy util la manera en que se impartieron los temas, cada modulo de aprendizaje fue muy impostante.

By Next L T a F

Jan 16, 2022

So much information to take in. This is a great window to learning how to navigate in Windows and Linux

By Abdallah M A E H

Feb 17, 2021

great hands-on labs gives an abstract overview with lots of reference material for any feature research

By Mashum A J

Nov 23, 2020

Very helpful in understanding the operation on Windows and Linux, unfortunately not teach about MAC OS.

By Guido F

Sep 23, 2020

I recommend this course for everyone even if you think you know a lot about systems, you probably wrong

By Benedikson S

Sep 7, 2020

I got to learn so many practical things in this course which can be used for day to day troubleshooting

By Curtly D

Jul 28, 2020

This was a great course!!! I love the hands portion the best. I would like to do more labs for practice

By Aimal A

Jun 23, 2020

Good Course and I really learned many things and it was almost practical.

Thank you Google and Coursera

By Murlene F

May 1, 2020

It was a little struggle but I made it through. There was a lot to learn to work on the Linux platform.

By Terence L

May 21, 2023

The labs didn't quite operate well at times, but I am satisfied with the knowledge base of the course.

By Paul W

Feb 11, 2023

command line was pretty confusing at times but , i reaally got used to using the commands in the labs.

By ياسر ا

Jan 7, 2022

I benefited and learned a lot during this course. Thanks Kyocera and Google. Thanks to all my teachers

By Jose A

Jan 5, 2021

Amazing, I didn't know anything about linux, and thanks to this course I feel confident with commands.

By LEONEL Y V M

Nov 5, 2020

excelente logre reforzar conocimientos y conocer nuevas herramientas. Dios quiera me ayude a Progresar

By Ahmed S M

Oct 6, 2020

I'm glad to done with this course, i want to thank cindy for all hard work she did for us

-All Love <3

By Samai C

Apr 6, 2020

A lot of information to cover, I suggest you take very detail notes. I love the videos in this course.

By Stacey G

Nov 11, 2019

I loved this course. It taught me a lot about operating systems and commands in powershell and linux.

By Kyle D

Oct 11, 2019

The quizzes finally let you do the work which is what i had been waiting on from the previous courses!

By Leo M

Apr 29, 2018

i really enjoyed this course. I wish there were more opportunities to practice built in to the course.

By Johann F

Aug 29, 2023

In depth information on Windows and Linux. Overall information yet a great foundation to build upon.

By ARNOLD T

Aug 28, 2022

For me this was very helpful and has taught me alot! I am thankful for all the information provided!

By Bryant O

Jun 6, 2021

this is the important stuff. well taught information well retained. be sure to take notes on commands

By Gary L

Oct 26, 2020

The course was great but challenging at the end. The instructors and the videos were awesome. Thanks!