OPS235 Weekly Schedule - Fedora17

Summer 2013 Weekly Schedule

Week	Objectives and Tasks	Slides / Reference	Labs
Week 1 (May 6 -12)	Fedora 17 Installation (on Main Host) Manually Creating Partitions Installing Fedora Boot loaders	Slides: Course Introduction: [ odp ] [ pdf ] [ ppt ] Lab 1 Preparation / Debriefing: [ odp ] [ pdf ] [ ppt ] Reference: Fedora 17 Installation Guide	Lab 1
Week 2 (May 13-19)	Creating & Using Virtual Machines Installing and Using Virtualization Software Installing Guest VMs	Slides: Virtual Machines Part I (Lab 2 Investigations 1-4): [ odp ] [ pdf ] [ ppt ] Virtual Machines Part II (Lab 2 Investigations 5-7): [ odp ] [ pdf ] [ ppt ] Reference: Fedora 17 Installation Guide Automating the Installation with Kickstart Kickstart Installations Kickstart Configurator Fedora Virtualization Guide	Lab 2
Week 3 (May 20 - 26)	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 (May 27 - June 2)	LVM & Software Package Management (continued) Logical Volume Management Installing / Removing Applications with Yum	Refer to Week 3 notes...
Week 5 (June 3 - 9)	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 (June 10 - 16).	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 (June 17 - 23)	Evaluation Practical Test 1 (covering weeks 1-6) Written Test 1 (covering weeks 1-6)
Study Week (Feb 25 - Mar 3)
Week 8 (July 1 - 7)	Configuring a Network Using Virtual Machines Static Network Configuration Network Configuration with a DHCP client Basic TCP/IP network commands: ping, ifconfig, netstat Assignment 1 Due	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
Week 9 (July 8 - 14)	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
Week 10 (July 15 - 21)	Setting Up, Using & Maintaining a DHCP Server DHCP Server	DHCP Server Definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Protocol	Lab 8
Week 11 (July 22 - 28)	Assignment 2 released Review for Practical Test	OPS235_Assignment_2
Week 12 (July 29 - August 4)	Practical Test 2
Week 13 (August 4 - 11)	Assignment 2 Due Review for Exam
Exam Week (August 12 - 16)

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