CSCI 425.001 202020

CSCI 425 - Network Systems Operations and Administration

Fall 2020 - Section 001


Week 1 - August 18/20, 2020

  • CSCI 425 Week 1 - Intro and Overview, History and Terminology

  • Assignment 1 - 20 points - Due August 25th

  • Assignment 2 - 30 points - Due August 27th

  • Textbook: Chapters 1-3


Week 2 - August 25/27, 2020

  • CSCI 425 Week 2 - Network & CLI & Cloud Intros, DNS

  • Assignment 3 - 50 points - Due September 3rd

  • Putty & Tunnel Help

  • Presentation Information

  • Textbook: Chapters 6-8


Week 3 - September 1/3, 2020

  • CSCI 425 Week 3 - Directory Services & User Management

  • Assignment 4 - 50 points - Due September 10th

  • Textbook: Chapters 4-5, 16


Week 4 - September 8/10, 2020

  • CSCI 425 Week 4 - Clouds Configs and Such

  • Assignment 5 - 25 points - Due September 17th

  • Assignment 6 - 25 points - Due September 17th

  • Textbook: Chapters 13-15


Week 5 - September 15/17, 2020

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

  • Assignment 7 - 50 points - Due September 24th

  • Textbook: Chapters 10-12


Week 6 - September 22/24, 2020

  • CSCI 425 Week 6 - DR, Storage, Backups, & Network Virtualization

  • Assignment 8 - 50 points - Due October 1st

  • Textbook: Chapters 20-22


Week 7 - September 29 & October 1, 2020

  • CSCI 425 Week 7 - Monitoring, Install Options, VNC...

  • Assignment 9 - 75 points - Due October 8th

  • Midterm Review


Week 8 - October 6/8, 2020

  • CSCI 425 Week 8 - Midterm & More

  • Textbook: Chapters 9, 23, & 26


Week 9 - October 13/15, 2020

  • CSCI 425 Week 9 - Recap, Virtualization, & Containers

  • Assignment 10 - 50 points - Due October 22nd

  • Textbook: Chapters 24, 25, & 31


Week 10 - October 20/22, 2020

  • CSCI 425 Week 10 - Documentation, Change Management, Monitoring, ITIL...

  • Assignment 11 - 50 points - Due October 29th

  • Reading: ITIL Guide


Week 11 - October 27/29, 2020

  • CSCI 425 Week 11 - More Network Services, Runlevels, Reviews and such...

  • Assignment 12 - 50 points - Due November 5th

  • Textbook: Chapters 29 & 30


Week 12 - November 3/5, 2020

  • CSCI 425 Week 12 - Security and such...

  • Assignment 13 - 50 points - Due November 12th

  • Textbook: Chapters 17-19


Week 13 - November 10/12, 2020

  • CSCI 425 Week 13 - Cloud and Elastic Load Balancers and more...

  • Assignment 14 - 50 points - Due November 19th

  • Textbook: Chapters 27-28


Week 14 - November 17/19, 2020

  • CSCI 425 Week 14 - Ethics and more...

  • Assignment 15 - 75 points - Due December 1st

  • Reading: Ethical Decision Making and the IT Professional

  • Reading: Ethical Problems in Computing

  • Reading: Packet Sniffing


Week 15 - November 24/26, 2020

  • CSCI 425 Week 15 - Thanksgiving Break - No Class or Office Hours


Week 16 - December 1, 2020

  • CSCI 425 Week 16 - Final Exam - 6:00PM to 8:00PM