- Week
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- Objectives and Tasks
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- Course Notes / Assigned Reading
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- Labs
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- Week 1
- January 9 - 13
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- Fedora 16 Installation (on Main Host)
- Manually Creating Partitions
- Installing Fedora
- Boot loaders
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- Introduction to Linux (YouTube Videos):
- [ Part1 ] [ Part2 ] [ Part3 ]
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- Lab 1
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- Week 2
- January 16 - 20
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- Creating & Using Virtual Machines
- Installing and Using Virtualization Software
- Installing Guest VMs
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- Lab 2
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- Week 3
- January 23 - 27
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- LVM & Software Package Management
- Logical Volume Management
- Software Package management with rpm and yum
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- Lab 3
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- Week 4
- January 30 - February 3
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- LVM & Software Package Management (continued)
- Logical Volume Management
- Installing / Removing Applications with Yum
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- Week 5
- February 6 - 10
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- Working with Partitions / User & Group Management
- Creating / Managing Virtual Partitions
- Mounting / Unmounting File Systems
- Automatically Mount File Systems Upon Boot-up
- User and Group Management
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- Lab 4
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- Week 6
- February 13 -17
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- Archiving Files, Compiling Software
Packages from Source, Managing Services
- Using Archive Files (tar, tar.gz, tgz)
- Compiling Software from Source Code
- Using git (common Revision Control System)
- System Services (via systemd)
- Catch-up on Labs
- Work on assignment
- Review for Practical and Written tests
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- Lab 5 (N/A)
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- Week 7
- February 20 -24
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- Evaluation
- Practical Test 1 (covering weeks 1-5)
- Written Test 1 (covering weeks 1-5)
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Study Week - February 27 - March 2
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- Week 8
- March 5 - 9
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- Configuring a Network Using Virtual Machines
- Static Network Configuration
- Network Configuration with a DHCP client
- Basic TCP/IP network commands: ping, ifconfig, netstat
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- Networking with Virtual Machines (Introduction)
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- Lab 6 (N/A)
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- Week 9
- March 12 - 16
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- Setup and Configure Secure Shell Services,
Using Virtual Machines
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- Lab 7 (N/A)
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- Week 10
- March 26 - 30
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- DHCP Server Definition:
[1]
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- Lab 8 (N/A)
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- Week 11
- April 2 - 6
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- Assignment 2 released
- Review for Practical and Written Tests
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- Week 12
- April 9 - 13
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Week 13
- April 16 - 20
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- Assignment 2 Due
- Review for Exam
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Exam Week - April 23 - 27
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