OPS245 Weekly Schedule

Note: Each professor will indicate the due dates for labs, tests and assignments for their sections. This schedule is a general guideline for week-by-week content.

Week	Objectives and Tasks	Labs
Week 1: 9 - 13 jan	Course introduction About the course Review of prerequisite skills from ULI101 Your workstation setup	Prep for labs
Week 2: 16 - 20 jan	Installing Linux servers, package management Debian DVD install for server1 Debian minimal install for server2 Cloning virtual machines Online open source software repositories	Lab 1
Week 3: 23 - 27 jan	Manual software installation & archives Adding extra repositories Installing downloaded .deb files wget, scp Extracting and creating archives with tar	Lab 2
Week 4: 30 jan - 3 feb	User management Adding & removing users Home directories, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow File permissions and ownership root, su, sudo	Lab 3
Week 5: 6 - 10 feb	Storage management Mounting storage devices Working with GPT partitions Running out of space LVM overview	Lab 4
Week 6: 13 - 17 feb	Assignment 1	Assignment 1
Week 7: 21 - 24 feb (monday is a holiday)	Evaluation Midterm test
Study Week: 27 feb - 3 mar
Week 8: 6 - 10 mar	LVM Practice Adding physical volumes Creating new logical volumes Extending the size of a logical volume Migrating logical volumes, removing physical volumes	Lab 5
Week 9: 13 - 17 mar	Networking IP, subnet, gateway, DNS Basic network troubleshooting steps ip command, ping, ss, telnet, nmap Creating new virtual networks Reconfiguring the network interface in Debian	Lab 6
Week 10: 20 - 24 mar	Security Software can't fix bad hardware security Password policies Brute-force SSH attacks Inspecting logs SSH keys Hardening SSH servers	Lab 7
Week 11: 27 - 31 mar	Python Introduction
Week 12: 3 - 6 apr (friday is a holiday)	Python Practical examples	Lab 8
Week 13: 10 - 14 apr	Assignment 2	Assignment 2
Week 14: 17 - 21 apr	Exam