OPS235 Weekly Schedule - Fedora17

Summer 2013

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 Software Package management with rpm and yum	Slides: Package Management: [ odp ] [ pdf ] [ ppt ] Reference: Using the RPM Utility Using the YUM Utility	Lab 3
Week 4 (May 27 - June 2)	LVM & Software Package Management (continued) Logical Volume Management	Slides: Introduction to LVM: [ odp ] [ pdf ] [ ppt ] Reference: Logical Volume Management (Recommended Reading) LVM HOWTO - Read chapters 1 - 3
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	Linux File Systems (ext2/ext3/ext4) Partitioning with fdisk Mounting / Unmounting File-systems UID and GID explained	Lab 4
Week 6 (June 10 - 16).	Complete first half of course: Catch-up on Labs Work on assignment #1 (Due week #7 in class) Review for Practical Test #1 and Written Test
Week 7 (June 17 - 23)	Evaluation Practical Test 1 (covering weeks 1-4) Written Test 1 (covering weeks 1-4) Assignment 1 Due (in class)|
Study Week (June 24 - 30)
Week 8 (July 1 - 7)	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)	archiving with tar, gzip,gunzip Compiling Software from Source Code init vs systemd	Lab 5
Week 9 (July 8 - 14)	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
Week 10 (July 15 - 21)	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 11 (July 22 - 28)	Setting Up, Using & Maintaining a DHCP Server DHCP Server Assignment 2 released Review for Practical Test	DHCP Server Definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Protocol OPS235_Assignment_2	Lab 8
Week 12 (July 29 - Aug 4)	Practical Test 2
Week 13 (Aug 4 - 11)	Assignment 2 Due Review for Exam
Exam Week (August 12 - 16)

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