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:* As a system administrator, you will be responsible for installing, configuring, adjusting, maintaining, and troubleshooting the operation of computer systems. This is a lot of responsibility, and with that responsibility comes power. You will be able to change anything on the system, and you will also have the ability to damage or destroy the system.
:* In this course you use will be using a removable disk tray with the lab computers virtualization program called VMware to set up a Linux system. You will also set up at least four additional Linux systems using as "Virtual Machines", and therefore in order to gain experience with different types of system configurations as well as setting up networking between systems.
:* Later courses (OPS335 , OPS435, OPS535 and OPS435OPS635) will teach you to administer Linux servers VMs (web serversDNS server, DNS serverse-mail server, FTP serversSamba server, file sharing serversetc.) -- and to use more complex scripting learn programming languages (such as Python) in order to manage Virtual Machines within a computer network to boost your system administration efficiency.
== Learning by Doing ==
:* The notes that you make during the labs and assignments are your reference material for the quizzes, tests, and assignments. Take really good notes, and if you have questions, experiment and consult with your professor.
:* Carefully read ALL lab instructions and check your work regularly. The labs have been designed with backup safeguards to prevent the student from losing their work. On the other hand, students may lose their work if they fail to follow lab instructions or accidentally forget their removable hard disks in the workstation's hard disk bay drive!
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==Required Materials (for second class)==