OPS705 Weekly Schedule

Fall 2020

This schedule is a considered to be a general guideline for week-by-week content. Due dates may vary per instructor.

Week	Objectives and Tasks	References / Additional Resources	Labs
Week 1: Sep 14-18	Introduction to Microsoft Azure: Accessing the Azure Portal Connecting to Your Account Using DevTest Labs Testing With A Web App Instance	Learn More About: DevTest Labs In-Depth DevTest Labs Features: DevTest Lab Concepts	Lab 1: Connecting to Microsoft Azure
Week 2: Sep 21-27	Creating and Using Azure Virtual Machines Creating a Windows Server 2016 VM Creating a CentOS Virtual Machine Remote Connections with RDP Remote Connections with SSH Managing VMs Through Azure's UI	What is a Virtual Machine? Microsoft's Quick Version Longer Wikipedia entry with scenarios and history Creating Virtual Machines Adding a VM in DevTest Labs Creating a Windows VM in Azure Creating a Linux VM in Azure	Lab 2: Creating and Connecting to Azure Virtual Machines
Week 3: Sep 28-Oct 4	Unix Command-line Basics File System Navigation Moving and Copying File Permissions Reading Text Files Editing Text Files		Lab 3: Unix/Linux Command-line Basics
Week 4: Oct 5-11	Managing Azure VMs with PowerShell: Powering on and off a VM Creating a VM Modifying Existing VMs Deleting a VM Scripting VM Creation		Lab 4: Managing Azure VMs with PowerShell
Week 5: Oct 12-18	Apache Web Server: What is Apache? Installing yum packages (Repositories, Packages, Software) Managing System Services Basic HTML with vim		Lab 5: Installing and Configuring an Apache Web Server
Week 6: Oct 19-25	Introduction to Networking: Example: Accessing a Webpage Server VS Client IP addresses, Ports, FQDNs Firewalls What is IIS?		Lab 6: Installing an IIS Webserver
Study Week: Oct 26 - Nov 1
Week 7: Nov 2-14	Resources, Resource Groups, and Users What is a resource? What is a resource group? What is a security group?		Lab 7: Setting Up a Project Group in Azure
Week 8: Nov 9-15	Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) What is a container? What is Docker? Containers VS Virtual Machines What is a container image?		Lab 8: Creating a Web App Instance
Week 9: Nov 16-22	App Persistence What is persistence? Ephemeral Containers w/Persistant Storage		Lab 9: Creating a Web App with Persistent Storage
Week 10: Nov 23-29	Networking, Part 2: Internal Networks (Container-to-container) INternal Networks VS Exposed Ports		Lab 10: Creating a Blog through Web App Containers
Week 11: Nov 30-Dec 6	Case Study: Dynamic Webpages Using Containers
Week 12: Dec 7-13	Dedicated Lab Time and Interactive Help