Skills Needed for Network Technician and Network Administrator

Fig 1:Skills Needed for Network Technician and Network Administrator

Network Technician Skills:

Following are the network technician skills that are very helpful to do work in the effective pattern:

Manage the organization's network system. Maintain the organization's network system. Great knowledge about the LAN and WAN. Good troubleshooter for the detection of the fault in real time environment. Network technician duty is provide the clear technical guidance on computer systems. Network technician should be a good evaluator for the performance of the network. Good inspector for the LAN infrastructure. Network technician should be a good communicator. Great knowledge about the cablings. Network technician should have the abilities to repair the devices and provide the possible and fast solution for the better organization's network system environment. Critical thinking is the great skill for the network technician to make decision in complex situations.

Following are the major and important devices and tools on which network technician has great capabilities:

Devices

Router
Server
Modem
Switches

Tools

Scissors
Pliers
Screwdrivers
Wire strippers

Network Administrator Skills:

Network administrator has the more knowledge and well experienced person than the network technician. Network technician and network administrator have the same task in real time environment but network administrator most often involve in the securing of the enterprise network. So following are the skills that needed for network administrator:

In the past few years, technology has been progressively taking over the groundwork of technology-related jobs. In fact, information technology is one of the fastest growing fields around the world. In order to succeed in a job involving system administration and networking skills, there are certain skills more you should have to knowledge about. Familiarity with hardware concepts and networking basics, such as bandwidth, network topology, router configuration, firewall setup, DNS configuration, TCP/IP architecture.

Network monitoring is the great skill for the network administrator. Testing the network for the finding out the weakness of the network . If there is any update need in network than it's a responsibility of network administrator to update that. Network administrator should have the abilities to installing and implementing the security programs. Network administrator should be a good evaluator for the performance of the network. Good inspector for the LAN and WAN infrastructure. Network administrator should be a good communicator. Network administrator should have the abilities provide the possible and fast solution for the better organization's network system environment. Critical thinking is the also great skill for the network administrator to make decision in complex situations. Network Administrator knows that how to manage the scenarios and questions that are rise at the industry levels.

Network administrator should have great knowledge about the hardware and also hands on experience on the switches and firewall. The another major and great role for the network administrator is the virtualization and the other one is active directory work. Great experience on the different operating systems {Window XP |Window 7|Window 8 |Window 10 |Window 11| Red Hat Linux | Kali Linux}.