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:	Course introduction About the course Review of prerequisite skills from ULI101 Your workstation setup	Prep for labs
Week 2:	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:	Manual software installation & archives Adding extra repositories Installing downloaded .deb files wget, scp Extracting and creating archives with tar	Lab 2
Week 4:	User management Adding & removing users Home directories, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow File permissions and ownership root, su, sudo	Lab 3
Week 5:	Storage management Mounting storage devices Working with GPT partitions Running out of space LVM overview	Lab 4
Week 6:	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 7:	Evaluation Assignment 1 Midterm test	Assignment 1
Study Week:
Week 8:	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 9:	Security Software can't fix bad hardware security Password policies Brute-force SSH attacks Inspecting logs SSH keys Hardening SSH servers	Lab 7
Week 10:	Asd asd
Week 11:	Asd asd
Week 12:	Asd asd
Week 13:	Assignment 2	Assignment 2
Week 14:	Exam