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# Here is an '''alternative set of OPS335 labs (Continuing Education)''' to the ones used in Weekly Schedule in current OPS335 WIKI:<br><br>[ [https://sites.google.com/site/ops335sa/ alternative labs] ]<br><br>
# '''Labs need to be worth more, 2% per lab''' in OPS235 seems to work well. --Andrew<br><ul><li>Fully agree, my breakdown at night (Continuing Education) that I largely inherited is '''differently weighted''', copy/pasted the '''breakdown as follows:'''<ul><li>Quizzes (1 per lab, staggered a week after the lab is introduced as in uli101 & ops235) - 10%</li><li>Tests (mid term) - 30%</li><li>Assignments (1 - broken down into several parts)- 10%</li><li>Lab work - 20%</li><li>Final Exam -30%</li><li>I'm planning on dropping the weighting of the mid term to 25%, and upping the assignment to 15% as I find at 10% a good portion of the students don't even bother doing it. The above breakdown addresses Andrew's point about quizzes as well -- Jason<br><br></li></ul></li></ul>
# '''Need lots of small quizzesquizze'''s. Perhaps one per week unless nothing new's been taught that week. --Andrew<br><br>
# Need two tests, preferably practical - especially since the exam is written. -- Andrew<ul><li>I have one written mid-term currently. There's pros and cons to a practical test, I try to cover more troubleshooting and questions directly from the labs in my written tests. The downside to a practical is having to rely on Seneca's network working (which is unreliable at best). Instead I have 1 assignment, research and implement something not covered in the course, and provide detailed documentation as to how to do it (similar level of detail as given in the labs). -- Jason <br><br></li></ul>
# '''Use CentOS on the virtual machines'''. Using Fedora has been no more successful in OPS335 than in OPS235. CentOS has problems but it's consistent and reliable. Fedora will do some random crap you won't believe. All the tools and services used in the course are equivalent between CentOS and Fedora (except yum/dnf which are the same anyway). --Andrew<ul><li>'''I use centos 6.7 on the host (because 7 caused issues with portabity - crashes completely if there's a significant change in hardware and won't boot again. centos 7 on all 3 virtual machines''' -- Jason<br><br></li></ul>
# '''Iptables is really complex but still the industry standard for firewalls. Firewalld may or may not (probably not) replace it'''. There's no time to teach both, should get rid of Firewalld completely. --Andrew<ul><li>Fully agree - I've been trying to figure out how to mix Firewalld into the course, presently I only cover iptables. -- Jason<br><br></li></ul>