Ultiblob Learning · career paths on real infrastructure

The console is the classroom.

  1. 01Learn the skills.
  2. 02Practice in real infrastructure.
  3. 03Build evidence.
  4. 04Demonstrate what you can do.

Career paths built from courses and hands-on labs on real virtual machines in Ultiblob's private cloud. You read the runbook, then you do the work — on systems provisioned for you, reached from your browser.

Explore the Systems Administrator pathRead what we will not promise first
A learner seen from behind at a desk, working in a console window on a single large monitor.

state

Ready

health: healthy · access window open

  1. Requested0 s
  2. Workspace17 s
  3. Provisioning…
  4. Ready4 min 32 s
  5. Console+1.3 s
  6. Released7 s
Resting on the ready state.

Choose a path

Who do you want to become?

Each path is a sequence of courses and labs, published only when its content is ready. Start with the reference path; others follow as they are released.

All career paths
A systems administrator working at a crash-cart console between two server racks.
No experience neededCertificate13 labs

Systems Administrator

Build practical infrastructure skills through guided lessons, realistic labs on real virtual machines, and evidence-based work.

Courses
13 courses
Lessons
39 lessons
Content time
49 h

windows · identity · operations · Microsoft · Windows Server

$49.00pilot price

How Ultiblob training is different

Read, then do.

Six things happen on every path. The middle two are what a video course cannot give you.

  1. A learner reading a lesson on a tablet beside a keyboard and notebook.
    01

    Learn

    Structured courses with guided lessons, in the order the work actually happens.

  2. Hands typing at a server-room crash cart console.
    02

    Practice

    Launch real infrastructure labs — virtual machines provisioned for you — instead of watching someone else's screen.

  3. A learner walking a mentor through a diagram on a whiteboard.
    03

    Prove

    Complete the course assessment where one exists, and the capstone work where a path defines one.

  4. A desk with a checklist of completed items on screen and in a notebook.
    04

    Build evidence

    Every completed lesson, lab session and assessment is recorded against your account.

  5. A learner holding a folder with a completion document.
    05

    Earn

    Receive an Ultiblob-issued certificate of completion when a course's requirements are met — verifiable by serial.

  6. An engineer walking onto an operations floor with wide monitors.
    06

    Advance

    Move on to the next path as paths are published. We publish a path only when its content is ready.

Inside a lab

You administer the machine. We provision it.

When you launch a lab, the platform creates a private network for you, clones the course's virtual machines from our templates on the Ultiblob cluster in Flint, Michigan, and opens a console in your browser. When you release the lab, the machines are destroyed and your grant stays, so you can launch again while your access window is open.

Workspace
17 s
private network and pool, measured on production
First VM ready
4 min 32 s
Ubuntu 24.04 template, 2 vCPU / 4 GB
Console
in-browser
noVNC over a single-use ticket; no VPN
Access window
per course
shown on the lab page with a countdown

A VM console needs a keyboard and a wide screen — labs are best run from a desktop browser. Reading, progress and lab controls work on a phone.

Rack servers in the Ultiblob private cloud cluster with status lights.

state

Ready

health: healthy · access window open

  1. Requested0 s
  2. Workspace17 s
  3. Provisioning…
  4. Ready4 min 32 s
  5. Console+1.3 s
  6. Released7 s
Resting on the ready state.

Before you decide

What we will not promise

  • A job, a salary, or an employer introduction. We teach and we let you practise; we do not place people.
  • Accreditation. An Ultiblob certificate records what you completed here. It is not an industry certification.
  • Statistics we have not measured. You will not find completion rates, placement rates or student counts on this site until they exist and are audited.

We would rather lose you here than mislead you.

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