Information Technology (IT) Fundamentals for Everyone
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Taught by IBM Skills Network Team
Information TechnologyBusinessComputer Science
About the course
This course will guide you through fundamental concepts and skills to confidently navigate various aspects of IT and the digital world. You will be introduced to the vast field of IT, covering a wide range of topics to build your IT knowledge. You will delve into hardware, operating systems technology, software, programming, databases, networking, storage, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and support and operations. Designed to summarize the IT Fundamentals and Cloud specialization courses, this
The dissent
The most-upvoted critical review (11 votes, 2.0★).
“This course is outdated. When I brought this up, I was asked to tell them everything that was out dated. This was frustrating since I'm trying to study this info through them. I gave two examples that I was positive were missing some key information, but could tell a lot more of it needed some simple quick updates. After giving my examples, they asked me to go back and give them links to everything I thought needed updating... In their own course. Again, frustrating. I'm trying to get through my classes/work in this course and other courses I'm taking. I shouldn't have to go through go through and do the teachers job on top of that. IBM is still a highly relevant company and it's disappointing that their classes are not on par. Try a course through a different provider. Google, maybe.”
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