Winter 2011 OPS235 Weekly Schedule

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OPS235 Weekly Schedule

Week	Objectives and Tasks	Assigned Reading	Labs / Exercises
Week 1 January 9 - 13	Installing Linux Manually Creating Partitions Installing Fedora Boot loaders	Introduction to Linux (YouTube Videos): [ Part1 ] [ Part2 ] [ Part3 ] Fedora 16 Installation Guide	OPS235 (Lab1)
Week 2 January 16 - 20	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 GRUB Boot Loader	OPS235 (Lab2)
Week 3 January 23 - 27	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	OPS235 (Lab2)
Week 4 January 30 - February 3	Continue Logical Volume Management
Week 5 February 6 - 10	Partitioning / Formatting Hard Disks Mounting / Unmounting File Systems Automate File Mounting Backing up MBR Customizing System Startup (/etc/rc.d directories)	Partitioning with fdisk	OPS235 (Lab4)
Week 6 February 13 -17	Using Filesystems in Regular Files Using Archive Files (tar, tar.gz, tgz) Compiling Software from Source Code Catch up / Review for Practical and Written tests Work on assignment		OPS235 (Lab5)
Week 7 February 20 -24	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	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 Networking Services View and Configure IPTABLES Firewall (refer to lab 6 notes)	OPS235 (Lab6)
Week 9 March 12 - 16	Network Services SSH	Network services/ssh SSH Tutorial How to Make SSH More Secure IPTables Interest Topic: Linux Security Tips (See Areas involving Networking)	OPS235 (Lab7)
Week 10 March 26 - 30	DHCP Server	DHCP Server Definition: [1]	OPS235 (Lab8)
Week 11 April 2 - 6	Assignment 2 released Review for Practical and Written Tests
Week 12 April 9 - 13	Written Test 2 Practical Test 2
Week 13 April 16 - 20	Assignment 2 Due Review for Exam
Exam Week - April 23 - 27

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