OPS345 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	Videos	Labs
Week 1: 5 - 8 september (monday is a holiday)	Course introduction About the course Review of prerequisite skills from ULI101 and OPS245 AWS account requirements and account setup Your workstation setup		Prep for Labs
Week 2: 11 - 15 september	First VM in the cloud AWS cost monitoring Basic security on a public-facing server: users, passwords, login requirements, SSH keys, lock-out prevention AWS networking, static IPs Deploying a pre-built VM on AWS		Lab 1
Week 3: 18 - 22 september	AWS networking, iptables The purpose of a firewall on a server on the internet AWS Security Groups and iptables iptables fundamentals iptables setup & troubleshooting Port forwarding		Lab 2
Week 4: 25 - 29 september	Web server Apache web server configuration Web server storage, configuration, LVM Simple PHP websites Public server without public ip HTTP vs HTTPS		Lab 3
Week 5: 2 - 6 october	Databases RDBMS fundamentals MariaDB on AWS Practice with MariaDB Web server + database example: NextCloud		Lab 4
Week 6: 10 - 13 october (monday is a holiday)	Assignment 1 Creating/using AMIs Automatic synchronisation using rsync, ssh keys, & cron Simple load balancing using iptables Really simple python scripting		Assignment 1
Week 7: 16 - 20 october	Evaluation Midterm test
Study Week: 23 - 27 october
Week 8: 30 october - 3 november	DNS DNS overview Register a domain name Set up A, CNAME, TXT records		Lab 5
Week 9: 6 - 10 november	Public key encryption Encryption, certificates Set up Let's Encrypt Modify Apache to use HTTPS		Lab 6
Week 10: 13 - 16 november	Simple email server Email overview MX records Third AWS VM: email Basic Postfix setup Delivery using dovecot-lda to Maildir Email server security: open relays, port access		Lab 7
Week 11: 20 - 24 november	IMAP server Set up Thunderbird for your domain Add encryption and authentication support to Postfix Set up Dovecot with SSL Set up Thunderbird for myseneca		Lab 8
Week 12: 27 november - 1 december	Catch up with labs Make sure your labs are finished so that you can complete the assignment.
Week 13: 4 - 8 december	Assignment 2 Roundcube Webmail Overview of skills gained		Assignment 2
Week 14: 11 - 13 december	Evaluation Exam