CSCI 425.001 201910

CSCI 425 - Network Systems Operations and Administration

Fall 2018 - Section 001


Week 1 - August 30th, 2018

  • CSCI 425 Week 1 - Intro and Overview

  • CSCI 425 Assignment 1 - 20 points - Due September 6th

  • Textbook: Chapter 26 - NIS & Chapter 27 - LDAP


Week 2 - September 6th, 2018

  • CSCI 425 Week 2 - Network, CLI, and Directory Services

  • CSCI 425 Assignment 2 - 25 points - Due September 13th

  • Textbook: Chapter 16 - DNS


Week 3 - September 13th, 2018

  • CSCI 425 Week 3 - DNS

  • CSCI 425 Assignment 3 - 30 points - Due September 20th

  • Textbook: Chapter 24 - Samba


Week 4 - September 20th, 2018

  • CSCI 425 Week 4 - Networks, LDAP, and Samba

  • CSCI 425 Assignment 4 - 30 points - Due September 27th

  • Textbook: Chapter 28 - Printing

  • Textbook: Chapter 29 - DHCP


Week 5 - September 27th, 2018

  • CSCI 425 Week 5 - DHCP, NTP, and Printing

  • CSCI 425 Assignment 5 - 35 points - Due October 4th

  • Textbook: Chapter 23 - NFS


Week 6 - October 4th, 2018

  • CSCI 425 Week 6 - Disaster Recovery, Storage, and Network Virtualization

  • CSCI 425 Assignment 6 - 25 points - Due October 11th

  • Textbook: Chapter 25 - DFS


Week 7 - October 11th, 2018

  • CSCI 425 Week 7 - Network based file systems, backups, more...

  • CSCI 425 Assignment 7 - 75 points - Due October 18th

  • Review for Midterm


Week 8 - October 18th, 2018

  • Midterm Exam

  • Textbook: Chapter 31 - Backups


Week 9 - October 25th, 2018

  • CSCI 425 Week 9 - Backups & Reviews

  • Textbook: Chapter 30 - Virtualization


Week 10 - November 1st, 2018

  • CSCI 425 Week 10 - VM's & Containers

  • CSCI 425 Assignment 8 - 15 points - Due November 8th, 2018

  • Reading: ITIL Guide: Pages 12-45


Week 11 November 8th, 2018

  • CSCI 425 Week 11 - Documentation, Change Management, Monitoring

  • CSCI 425 Assignment 9 - 20 points - Due November 15th, 2018

  • Presentation Information

  • Textbook: Chapter 21 - VoIP


Week 12 November 15th, 2018

  • CSCI 425 Week 12 - Network Services, Runlevels, Docker and such...

  • CSCI 425 Assignment 10 - 30 points - Due November 29th, 2018

  • Textbook: Chapter 22 - SSH


Week 13 November 22nd, 2018

  • Thanksgiving break - no class

  • Reading: Packet Sniffing


Week 14 November 29th, 2018

  • CSCI 425 Week 14 - Disk Configuration, Network Security, Security Awareness

  • CSCI 425 Assignment 11 - 25 points - Due December 6th, 2018

  • CSCI 425 Assignment 12 - 27 points - Due December 13th, 2018 by 6:00PM!

  • Reading: Ethics and Social Issues

    • How ethical theories apply to IT professionals

    • Ethical decision making and the IT professional

    • Ethical problems in computing


Week 15 December 6th, 2018

  • CSCI 425 Week 15 - Social and Ethical Issues

  • Presentations

  • Final Review

  • Work Time

  • CSCI 425 Assignment 13 - 18 points - Due December 13th, 2018 by 6:00PM!

  • CSCI 425 Assignment 14 - BONUS! - 20 points - Due December 13th, 2018 by 6:00PM!

  • CSCI 425 Assignment 15 - BONUS! - 20 points - Due December 13th, 2018 by 6:00PM!


Week 16 December 13th, 2018

  • Final Exam - 6:00PM - 8:00PM - Ross Hall 136