Winter 2011 OPS235 Weekly Schedule

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OPS235 Weekly Schedule

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Week	Objectives and Tasks	Assigned Reading	Labs / Exercises
Week 1 September 6-10	Course overview Welcome to OPS235 Course Format Assigned Readings Required materials Introduction to Linux Introduction to Linux How does a computer boot? Boot Device and Boot Order Booting a "LIVE CD" Storage - Hard Disks and Partioning Devices Hard Disk Partitions File Systems Linux Directory Structure	Intro to Linux Intro to Linux Intro to Open Source The Open Source Definition according to OSI Hard Disks and Partitioning Hard Disk Basics Linux Hard Disk Names Linux Filesystem Options Linux ext4 Filesystem The Linux Filesystem Partitioning with fdisk Filesystems Filesystem Names Explained	Lab 1
Week 2 September 13-17	Installing Linux Installing Fedora Boot loaders	Fedora 13 Installation Guide Installation GRUB Boot Loader Partitioning for Fedora	Lab 2
Week 3 September 20-24	Using Virtual Machines Installing and Using Virtualization Software Installing Guest VMs	Fedora 13 Installation Guide - Advanced Installation Options Automating the Installation with Kickstart Kickstart Installations Kickstart Configurator Fedora 13 Virtualization Guide	Lab 3
Week 4 September 27-October 1	Logical Volume Management Package management with rpm and yum User and Group Management	Logical Volume Management Package Management UID and GID explained LVM HOWTO - Read chapters 1 - 3	Lab 4
Week 5 October 4-7	Using Filesystems in Regular Files (loopback) Using Archive Files (tar, tar.gz, tgz) Compiling Software from Source Code Customizing System Startup (/etc/rc.d directories)		Lab 5
Week 6 October 11-15	Catch up Review for Practical and Written tests Work on assignment
Week 7 October 18-22	Practical Test 1 (covering weeks 1-5) Written Test 1 (covering weeks 1-5)
Study Week - October 25-29 Seneca Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) 2010
Week 8 November 1-5	Static Network Configuration Network Configuration with a DHCP client Basic TCP/IP network commands: ping, ifconfig, netstat	Configuring Networking	Lab 6
Week 9 November 8-12	Network Services SSH	Network services/ssh IPTables	Lab 7
Week 10 November 15-19	DHCP Server	DHCP Server	Lab 8
Week 11 November 22-26	Assignment 2 released Review for Practical and Written Tests
Week 12 November 29-December 3	Written Test 2 Practical Test 2
Week 13 December 6-10	Assignment 2 Due Review for Exam
Exam Week - December 13-17

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