Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Sysadmin has very little to do with hardware details. The sysadmin at the school I worked at spent basically all of her time in Microsoft Active Directory/SCCM. She also created the images for deployment and managed the content filter. Obviously working for a school would be different than working for some big for-profit corporate place, so idk there could be differences.

I'm a Network Engineer so I deal with infrastructure, access points, switches/routers, servers, domain controllers...hardware specs like Plankton's been talking about has never once come up in my work