Quick Answer: Is System Administration a Science?
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Is system administration a management or engineering?

First, a clarification: Systems engineers deal mostly with the planning, design, design changes, and implementation of a network or system. System administrators or sysadmins manage the ongoing support of those same systems and networks as well as many other aspects of an IT infrastructure.

Is system administration a engineering?

The Wikipedia definition would also have tightly fit if this kind of system administration had been recognized as an engineering discipline. But it is not recognized as an engineering discipline in the general sense; nobody goes to a post graduate degree to discover how to better design such solutions.

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