Winter 2012 OPS235 Weekly Schedule

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Week
Objectives and Tasks
Course Notes / Assigned Reading
Labs
Week 1 (Jan 7 - 13)
Fedora 17 Installation (on Main Host)
  • Manually Creating Partitions
  • Installing Fedora
  • Boot loaders
Lab 1
Week 2 (Jan 14 - 20)
Creating & Using Virtual Machines
  • Installing and Using Virtualization Software
  • Installing Guest VMs
Lab 2
Week 3 (Jan 21 - 27)


LVM & Software Package Management
  • Logical Volume Management
  • Software Package management with rpm and yum
Lab 3
Week 4 (Jan 29 - Feb 3)
LVM & Software Package Management (continued)
  • Logical Volume Management
  • Installing / Removing Applications with Yum
  • Refer to Week 3 notes...
Week 5 (Feb 4 - 10)


Working with Partitions / User & Group Management
  • Creating / Managing Virtual Partitions
  • Mounting / Unmounting File Systems
  • Automatically Mount File Systems Upon Boot-up
  • User and Group Management
Lab 4
Week 6 (Feb 11 - 17).
Archiving Files, Compiling Software
Packages from Source, Managing Services
  • Using Archive Files (tar, tar.gz, tgz)
  • Compiling Software from Source Code
  • System Services (via systemd)
  • Catch-up on Labs
  • Work on assignment
  • Review for Practical and Written tests
Lab 5
Week 7 (Feb 18 - 24). Holiday on Feb 18.
Evaluation
  • Practical Test 1 (covering weeks 1-6)
  • Written Test 1 (covering weeks 1-6)
Study Week (Feb 25 - Mar 3)
Week 8 (Mar 4 - 10)
Configuring a Network Using Virtual Machines
  • Static Network Configuration
  • Network Configuration with a DHCP client
  • Basic TCP/IP network commands: ping, ifconfig, netstat
  • Assignment 1 Due
Networking with Virtual Machines (Introduction)
Lab 6
Week 9 (Mar 11 - 17)
Setup and Configure Secure Shell Services,
Using Virtual Machines
  • Network Services
  • SSH
Lab 7
Week 10 (Mar 18 - 24)


Setting Up, Using & Maintaining a DHCP Server
  • DHCP Server
Lab 8
Week 11 (Mar 25 - 31). Holiday on March 29.


  • Assignment 2 released
  • Review for Practical Test


Week 12 (Apr 1 - 7)


  • Practical Test 2


Week 13 (Apr 8 - 14 )


  • Assignment 2 Due
  • Review for Exam
Exam Week (Apr 15 - 19)

OPS235 Resources