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	Videos	Labs
Week 1: 8 - 12 may	Course introduction About the course Review of prerequisite skills from ULI101 Your workstation setup	Andrew's Course Introduction Andrew's Prep for Labs	Prep for labs
Week 2: 15 - 19 may	Installing Linux servers, package management Debian DVD install for server1 Debian minimal install for server2 Cloning virtual machines Online open source software repositories	Andrew's Lab 1	Lab 1
Week 3: 22 - 26 may	Software installation & archives System directories Apt Adding extra repositories wget, tar	Andrew's Lab 2	Lab 2
Week 4: 29 may - 2 june	User management Adding & removing users Home directories, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow File permissions and ownership root, su, sudo	Andrew's Lab 3	Lab 3
Week 5: 5 - 9 june	Storage management Mounting storage devices Working with GPT partitions Running out of space LVM overview	Andrew's Lab 4	Lab 4
Week 6: 12 - 16 june	Assignment 1		Assignment 1
Week 7: 19 - 23 june	Evaluation Midterm test
Study Week: 26 - 30 june
Week 8:4 - 7 july (monday is a holiday)	LVM Adding physical volumes Creating new logical volumes Extending the size of a logical volume Migrating logical volumes, removing physical volumes	Andrew's Lab 5	Lab 5
Week 9: 10 - 14 july	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	Andrew's Lab 6	Lab 6
Week 10: 17 - 21 july	Security Software can't fix bad hardware security Password policies Inspecting logs SSH keys	Andrew's Lab 7	Lab 7
Week 11: 24 - 28 july	Python Introduction
Week 12: 31 july - 4 august	Python Practical examples		Lab 8
Week 13: 7 - 11 august	Assignment 2		Assignment 2
Week 14: 14 - 18 august	Exam