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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Operating Systems: Overview, Administration, and Security by IBM

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About the Course

51% of organizations are planning to increase security investments as a result of a breach (IBM Report). Companies need skilled IT support and cybersecurity professionals now more than ever. Whether you’re just starting out or switching to tech, this course provides the critical operating systems (OS) knowledge you need to move forward. Operating systems are fundamental to all aspects of computing. In this course, you’ll learn foundational concepts common to all operating systems and the unique aspects of Windows, Linux, and MacOS. You’ll explore OS file systems and the associated security features. You'll discover the macOS features that revolutionized OS functionality. Plus, you’ll investigate virtualization and containerization. Additionally, through labs and a final project, you’ll get hands-on managing virus and threat protection, configuring user accounts and permissions with command-line tools, and securing systems against threats. If you’re looking to get started IT or cybersecurity, enroll today to gain essential knowledge in operating systems that enables you to work towards a career in cybersecurity, system administration, network engineering, or IT support....

Top reviews

MG

Apr 24, 2020

Very solid course. Quick overview about almost everything you need to know at the beginning. A lot of useful links with additional material to study. Thanks a lot for sharing the knowledge, indeed!

TC

May 10, 2020

Knowledge delivery is exceptional. Content is to the point and the tests really pinpoint the attention level of the volunteer taking the course.Thank you for designing such a knowledgeable course

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By Toby C

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Oct 1, 2020

Terrible quality slides, unreadable screenshots in most cases. Repeat videos and sections from the first course in the IBM Professional Cert.

By Sarah M

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Aug 6, 2020

the videos were very not-interesting. and there was problem with sound. also something wrong with the quizes. but content was good.

By April B

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Jul 10, 2023

Some of the slides were blurry and the audio is not great. Some things are hard to hear and the transcript just says "inaudible".

By Rodrigo H

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Jul 17, 2022

voice sounds are very bad or very low and you can hear very strong accents in there, also the presentations are very low quality

By Alexander o

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Aug 25, 2021

Was a very good course, although the delivery of some of the content was really abstract, could do with more everyday examples.

By Ana D

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Jul 17, 2020

The material from course 1 was repeated a lot, some bad audio and visuals here and there. Operating systems week was useful.

By khadijah a

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Sep 19, 2023

This course is great, although the images and charts need updated. The quality is low on some of these images.

By HITESH U

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Mar 22, 2021

Instructor should getting better audio equipment and recording equipment otherwise it is a very good course.

By Viktors K

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Jul 27, 2022

Very basic information with no depth. Low effort videos, transcrips are not proofread and full of errors.

By Andres M G

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Aug 10, 2020

Way too general, do not really understand the need for the OS week, just talking about shortcuts of the OS

By Anneshan S

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Nov 16, 2020

Not that great experience . I have taken other courses which provide better explanation then this one.

By Jason D

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Jan 24, 2022

Content was excellent. The issues were production quality in nature; couldn't read some key slides.

By FERKOUN M

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Jul 10, 2022

VEry generic, for non IT professionals / beginners as stated though good to review fundamentals

By Rishabh N

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Aug 2, 2020

Some instructors don't sound properly and the slides are also not clearly visible despite 720p.

By Didier H

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Jun 24, 2020

Interesting and usefull content, although the "live chat" audio must be done something about...

By Tyrone B

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Aug 8, 2021

Some of the texts is misspelled. The accents were challenging at times. Did hold my attention.

By Himmel B

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Oct 18, 2022

In the videos the resolution of the slides and pictures is just poor and requires update.

By Paul T

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Apr 4, 2020

Fairly general, not too much focus on security

Some reference links need to be updated

By Ahasan S

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Aug 30, 2021

Video and Voice quality is very poor. Course Content could be more enhanced

By Jason L

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Feb 6, 2021

Course is good, though a little dated and has a few broken "reading" links.

By LUAY S A A

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Feb 4, 2023

The quality of the videos is not that much, some slides are not readable.

By Dinkle G

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Apr 8, 2022

Course is really useful but in some videos picture quality is not good.

By Nicole T

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Jan 15, 2021

The closed caption did not match what the speaker was clearly saying.

By Bradley G

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Apr 13, 2022

Best part of course was the cloud and virtualisation component.

By sobit t

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Jul 4, 2020

Pictures,screenshots and charts used in the course are not clear