OPS345 Weekly Schedule

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Instructors: see OPS345

Note: Each OPS345 instructor will indicate the due dates for labs, tests and assignments. This schedule is a general guideline for week-by-week content.

Week	Objectives and Tasks	Labs
Week 1: date	Course introduction About the course Review of prerequisite skills from ULI101 and OPS245 AWS account requirements and account setup Your workstation setup	Prep for Labs
Week 2: date	First VM in the cloud AWS cost monitoring Basic security on a public-facing server: users, passwords, login requirements, SSH keys AWS networking, static IPs Deploying a pre-built VM on AWS	Lab 1
Week 3: date	iptables introduction The purpose of a firewall on a server on the internet AWS Security Groups and iptables iptables fundamentals iptables setup	Lab 2
Week 4: date	More iptables and server security iptables troubleshooting Using nmap Securing services that need to be publicly accessible	Lab 3
Week 5: date	DNS DNS overview Bind DNS server configuration Forward lookups Forwarders Workstation configuration	Lab 4
Week 6: date	Assignment 1 Assignment 1
Week 7: date	Evaluation Guided self-evaluation (online) Presentation (in-class)
Study Week: date
Week 8: date	Simple email server Second AWS VM: email Basic Postfix setup Delivery using dovecot-lda to Maildir Monitoring script from 'dns' sending messages to 'email' Reading Maildir using Mutt Email server security: open relays, port access	Lab 5
Week 9: date	IMAP server Certificate/key management using TinyCA Dovecot configuration as an IMAP server using a self-signed certificate Postfix remote access configuration using a self-signed certificate Thunderbird setup on the workstation (including CA)	Lab 6
Week 10: date	Web server Apache web server configuration HTTP vs HTTPS Configuration using a self-signed certificate Firefox setup on workstation to include CA Configuring Roundcube Webmail	Lab 7
Week 11: date	Proper Cloud data storage Storage overview on AWS S3 RDS EBS EFS	Lab 8
Week 12: date	Automatic Deployment and Configuration Management (no lab) What we did wrong in this course Automatic, demand-based deployment of VMs Automatically configuring new VMs Containers
Week 13: date	Assignment 2 Assignment 2
Week 14: date	Evaluation Guided self-evaluation (online) Presentation (in-class)