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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!

BO

Apr 1, 2019

This is my most favorite module module, especially the Linux, which is my all time favorite OS ever enjoy learning, working Programing, and configuring, and will continue enjoying til the end of time.

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By Taya S

Sep 22, 2023

this is a terrible cert. the assessments never work and or are just so unclear or just dont accept correct work. this entire cert is just a giant headache if you can avoid the google it cert save yourself the troubles of wanting to die for the next 6 months of your life and dont take the google it cert qwicklabs never works im on the verge of killing myself because of how ass this course is

By Andrea

Sep 13, 2023

There was way too much information being crammed into this course and not enough detailed explanation. It is not possible to become a power user from the scrambled bits and pieces of material thrown together as it is here. I do not feel I have learned and obtained the proper information to be knowledgeable in Linux or Powershell from the material I have covered so far.

By David V

Feb 5, 2021

If could give zero stars I would this is supposed to be for beginners well that I am, I have exceeded my lab quota time and cannot go back in so, in essence, I have failed the course no sense in continuing thanks a lot, generally, you can retake quizzes but you can't retake labs, seems like a bad system don't worry I will share my excitement with all those I know.

By Cyber D

Feb 4, 2021

garbage course. awful labs. You need to figure how to make these labs a lot better. all the labs do are make me angry. The labs are so disconnected from the lessons. I had 50 tabs open and 30 pages of notes and still was having issues with the last labs. If you don't make labs more interactive then people are just gonna quit.

By Nick F

Oct 24, 2021

It is just a primer. This will get you a job in the chat-box helping people perhaps. Very unhappy worst $40 I ever spent. I have had zero job responses even from employers since taking this course. If Coursera can find me a job in this field granted the chat-box is all it qualifies you for then I will re-write this review.

By Craig J

Jul 18, 2020

This course is a waste of money! I feel like I just was cheated out of $100 bucks. With the large amount of bugs and errors in the information and during graded assessments, this course should be free or refunded. Sad way to take money from highly interested and committed customers. Deserves no stars.

By Sean T

Aug 24, 2021

The courses truly are an expensive version of free information you can find online, there was no additional value that any of these courses offered than any other learning outlet would have.

It is seriously putrid that that any of these courses are being lauded as a worthwhile endeavor.

By Hal L

Nov 12, 2023

instrcutor speaks too fast, leaving less time to take notes, have to review several times. Lots of the command is not explained, has to google for actual usage such as scp commands. Instructor spoke too much irrelavant words, influencing the learning process negatively.

By MAAZ S

Jul 17, 2023

There were allot of technical Lab and the Content issues including the teacher expression and the face Behavior with were not matched it was a really tough and challengeable course i do not like the contents and the teacher methodology regarding this course.

By Jacob G B

Mar 14, 2020

The labs are absolutely broken. I can't finish the course because I can't pass 3 of the labs because the instructions are not working with the lab or the score doesn't update when activities are completed. I'm paying for this for some reason.

By Leopold S

Aug 4, 2023

The transcripts are a disgrace. They appear to the audio from the video lecture converted to text using a very poor quality speech to text converter. In this course, there are many commands that need to be better documented for the student.

By Jamie T

Dec 11, 2021

The Linux portions of this course were very difficult to complete. Some of them had glitches that made it impossible to do and I had to reach out to QwikLabs to reset my attempts. Pay very careful attention to every single step!

By Jefferson P

Apr 8, 2021

Broken exam, I would have gotten 100 if not for poor execution of this assessment. When you update vlc the system does not recognize that it is installed from the power shell even though the program will launch without issue.

By Fresh S 3

Nov 14, 2023

Awful course, week 4 and week 6 projects don't even work worst, learning experience ever, please fix this for students in the future, make something better please, can't even get my certificate for this course.

By Jason M

Jul 30, 2023

The directions on this module are absolutly trash!!!!!!!! I have been in the IT field for 17 years and the directions you have provided are garbage and do not work!! This module neeeds a complete overhaul!!!!!

By Matthew K

Aug 25, 2021

Im not sure anyone will read this but I struggled alot and I believe that if we were able to move along and do the steps on our own with the instructor in the background it would be more beneficial to some .

By Curtis L

Aug 31, 2021

Course contents are not well structured. Assignments sometimes too easy but sometimes a little bit tricky. After finishing this course, I cannot feel I understand more about operating system.

By Aida S

Oct 30, 2024

Did NOT like this course. I felt the information was disjointed and not comprehensive enough for beginner levels. The microsoft labs are wonky and slow as well.

By Roger J

Jun 13, 2020

Of all the courses, this one was by far the worst. From the presenter to the 2 final labs, I enjoyed all of the courses BUT this one.

By Deleted A

Jun 15, 2024

I like the quizzes and I learned some new things, the labs absolutely SUCK. unenrolling purely out of frustration with the Qwiklabs.

By Peter

Nov 6, 2019

the last linux test is impossible to complete and the course does not provide the resources to complete it properly.

By Perrin B

Sep 26, 2021

Worst course I've ever taken. Pointless and Labs have incorrect instructions which makes it difficult to complete.

By Jacob L

Feb 1, 2021

So little effort has been put into the organization, proof reading, editing, and presentation of this course. Wow.

By Jose Z

Nov 9, 2020

Cant complete labs week 3 in RDP and I even used an online RDP And spoke to tech support. Nothing!! So moving on

By Jack T

Dec 7, 2019

The graded modules at the end are actually broken and don't have all the content you need to complete them.