Winter 2012 OPS235 Weekly Schedule

Week	Objectives and Tasks	Course Notes / Assigned Reading	Labs
Week 1 January 9 - 13	Fedora 16 Installation (on Main Host) Manually Creating Partitions Installing Fedora Boot loaders	Introduction to Linux (YouTube Videos): [ Part1 ] [ Part2 ] [ Part3 ] Fedora 16 Installation Guide	Lab 1
Week 2 January 16 - 20	Creating & Using Virtual Machines Installing and Using Virtualization Software Installing Guest VMs	Fedora 16 Installation Guide -Advanced Installation Options Automating the Installation with Kickstart Kickstart Installations Kickstart Configurator Fedora Virtualization Guide	Lab 2
Week 3 January 23 - 27	LVM & Software Package Management Logical Volume Management Software Package management with rpm and yum	Logical Volume Management LVM HOWTO - Read chapters 1 - 3 Use the RPM Utility Using the YUM Utility	Lab 3
Week 4 January 30 - February 3	LVM & Software Package Management (continued) Logical Volume Management Installing / Removing Applications with Yum	Refer to Week 3 notes...
Week 5 February 6 - 10	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	Logical Volume Management Partitioning with fdisk Mounting / Unmounting File-systems UID and GID explained	Lab 4
Week 6 February 13 -17	Archiving Files, Compiling Software Packages from Source, Managing Services Using Archive Files (tar, tar.gz, tgz) Compiling Software from Source Code System Services (via systemd) Catch-up on Labs Work on assignment Review for Practical and Written tests	archiving with tar, gzip,gunzip Compiling Software from Source Code init vs systemd	Lab 5
Week 7 February 20 -24	Evaluation Practical Test 1 (covering weeks 1-5) Written Test 1 (covering weeks 1-5)
Study Week - February 27 - March 2
Week 8 March 5 - 9	Configuring a Network Using Virtual Machines Static Network Configuration Network Configuration with a DHCP client Basic TCP/IP network commands: ping, ifconfig, netstat	Networking with Virtual Machines (Introduction) Virtual Network - Definition Important Linux Networking Commands (Also refer to lab 6 notes) Linux Network Configuration IPTables Reference Lab6 Notes: IPTABLES Firewall	Lab 6 (N/A)
Week 9 March 12 - 16	Setup and Configure Secure Shell Services, Using Virtual Machines Network Services SSH	Network services/ssh SSH Tutorial How to Make SSH More Secure IPTables Interest Topic: Linux Security Tips (See Areas involving Networking)	Lab 7 (N/A)
Week 10 March 26 - 30	Setting Up, Using & Maintaining a DHCP Server DHCP Server	DHCP Server Definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Protocol	Lab 8 (N/A)
Week 11 April 2 - 6	Assignment 2 released Review for Practical and Written Tests
Week 12 April 9 - 13	Practical Test 2
Week 13 April 16 - 20	Assignment 2 Due Review for Exam
Exam Week - April 23 - 27

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