Summer 2010 OPS235 Weekly Schedule

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OPS235 Weekly Schedule

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Week	Objectives and Tasks	Assigned Reading	Labs / Exercises
Week 1 Jan 11 - 15	Course overview: Assigned Readings Required materials Introduction to Linux How does a computer boot? Boot Device and Boot Order Booting a "LIVE CD"	Intro to Linux Intro to Open Source	Lab 1
Week 2 Jan 18 - 22	Devices Hard Disk Partitions File Systems Linux Directory Structure	Hard Disk Basics Linux Hard Disk Names Linux Filesystem Options Linux ext4 Filesystem The Linux Filesystem Partitioning with fdisk Filesystems Filesystem Names Explained	Lab 2
Week 3 Jan 25 - 29	Installing Fedora Boot loaders Assignment 1 Released	Fedora 12 Installation Guide Installation GRUB Boot Loader Partitioning for Fedora	Lab 3
Week 4 Feb 1 - 5	Logical Volume Management Package management with rpm and yum User and Group Management	Package Management Storage Administration - Using Logical Volume Management UID and GID explained LVM HOWTO - Read chapters 1 - 3	Lab 4
Week 5 Feb 8 - 12	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 Feb 15 - 19	Catch up Review for Practical and Written tests Work on assignment
Week 7 Feb 22 - 26	Practical Test 1 (covering weeks 1-5) Written Test 1 (covering weeks 1-5)
Study Week - March 1-5
Week 8 Mar 8 - 12	Assignment 1 Evaluation Static Network Configuration Network Configuration with a DHCP client Basic TCP/IP network commands: ping, ifconfig, netstat	Configuring Networking	Lab 6
Week 9 Mar 15 - 19	Network Services SSH	Network services/ssh	Lab 7
Week 10 Mar 22 - 26	DHCP Server	DHCP Server	Lab 8
Week 11 Apr 1 - 5	Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) Review for Practical and Written Tests	PAM Configuration	Lab 9
Week 12 Apr 8-12	Written Test 2 (covering weeks 5-10) Practical Test 2
Week 13 Apr 15 - 19	Assignment 2 Due Review for Exam
Exam Week - April 22-26