Administration is where networking theory meets a ticket queue. This course covers the work: configuring switches and routers from the command line, planning and managing addressing schemes that survive growth, and running the services everything depends on, including DHCP, DNS, and NTP. You will set up VLANs and inter-VLAN routing, configure static and dynamic routing, and implement redundancy so a single failure is not an outage. Monitoring is covered with SNMP, syslog, and flow data, along with the baselines that make an anomaly visible. A substantial part of the course is structured troubleshooting: a repeatable method for isolating faults at the right layer instead of changing things until it works.