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 Welcome to OPS235 Course Format Assigned Readings Required materials Introduction to Linux Introduction to Linux How does a computer boot? Boot Device and Boot Order Booting a "LIVE CD" Devices Hard Disk Partitions File Systems Linux Directory Structure	Intro to Linux Intro to Open Source	Lab 1 Hard Disk Basics Linux Hard Disk Names Linux Filesystem Options Linux ext4 Filesystem The Linux Filesystem Partitioning with fdisk Filesystems Filesystem Names Explained
Week 2 Jan 18 - 22	Installing Linux Installing Fedora Boot loaders	Fedora 12 Installation Guide Installation GRUB Boot Loader Partitioning for Fedora	Lab 2
Week 3 Jan 25 - 29	Using Virtual Machines Installing and Using Virtualization Software Installing Guest VMs Assignment 1 Released	Fedora 12 Installation Guide - Advanced Installation Options Automating the Installation with Kickstart Kickstart Installations Kickstart Configurator	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

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