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 Using git (common Revision Control System) 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 Using git init vs systemd	Lab 5 (N/A)
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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