Where can I practice system administration (testing grounds)?

Question

System administration

Are there popular and comfortable resources / services on the Internet that allow you to pump, practice, test and simply learn how to administer networks, operating systems, any hardware, emulate something? Like some kind of testing grounds? Paid or free services?
Tell me addresses, companies, contacts?

Answer 1

OSI (mf!)
and what kind of people went ....
"There were people, like people, and suddenly they all became nerds at once. Paradox."

Answer 2

Enough :) Probably :)

Answer 3

www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com

Answer 4

Buy more memory on your home computer, install some kind of hypervisor, design and raise the infrastructure of some hypothetical office. About the OS, I think everything is clear, and many network hardware or their analogues exist in the form of virtual applications.

Answer 5

www.intuit.ru - a lot of things on IT topics
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs - the ability to set up Win-servers in a virtual environment

Answer 6

1. get a job in a small office as an incoming system administrator
2. raise the Internet there through a router, file server, anti-virus protection, learn how to update 1C, work with hardware and software suppliers, providers, administer corporate mail.
3. optionally make a server with a domain controller, raise WSUS for centralized updates, raise DNS, DHCP, ISA Server.
4. continue to smoke manuals and practice
5. get a job in a larger office
and in general it is worth getting a job as an assistant to a Jedi system administrator and studying under his sensitive guidance.

Answer 7

A virtual machine is taken in vmvari / virtualbox directly on the current workstation, configured and launched. then another, then another...