ECSC 425.200 202310

ECSC 425 - Network Systems Operations and Administration

Fall 2022 - Section 200


Week 1 - August 22 & 24, 2022

  • ECSC 325 Week 1 - Intro and Overview

  • Assignment 1 - 20 points - Due August 29

  • Assignment 2 - 30 points - Due August 31

  • Textbook: Chapters 1-3


Week 2 - August 29 & 31, 2022

  • ECSC 325 Week 2 - Network & CLI & Cloud Intros, DNS

  • Assignment 3 - 50 points - Due September 7

  • Textbook: Chapters 6-8


Week 3 - September 5 & 7, 2022

  • ECSC 325 Week 3 - Directory Services, User Management, LDAP, & Samba

  • Assignment 4 - 50 points - Due September 19

  • Textbook: Chapters 4-5, 16

  • No class Monday September 5th!


Week 4 - September 12 & 14, 2022

  • ECSC 325 Week 4 - LDAP, Samba, Configs, and Clouds

  • Assignment 5 - 50 points - Due September 26

  • Assignment 6 - 50 points - Due September 26

  • Textbook: Chapters 13-15


Week 5 - September 19 & 21, 2022

  • ECSC 325 Week 5 - Clouds, Printing, Samba, DHCP, NTP...

  • Assignment 7 - 50 points - Due September 28

  • Presentation Information

  • Textbook: Chapters 10-12


Week 6 - September 26 & 28, 2022

  • ECSC 325 Week 6 - DR, Storage, and Network Virtualization...

  • Assignment 8 - 50 points - Due October 5

  • Textbook: Chapters 20-22


Week 7 - October 3 & 5, 2022

  • ECSC 325 Week 7 - Monitoring, Install Options, Remote access...

  • Assignment 9 - 75 points - Due October 17

  • Midterm Review

  • Textbook: Chapters 9, 23, 26


Week 8 - October 10 & 12, 2022

  • Midterm Exam (Monday)

  • ECSC 325 Week 8 - Midterm, Containers, More...

  • Assignment 10 - 50 points - Due October 26


Week 9 - October 17 & 19, 2022

  • ECSC 325 Week 9 - Updates, Containers, More...

  • Assignment 11 - 50 points - Due November 2

  • Textbook: Chapters 24, 25, 31


Week 10 - October 24 & 26, 2022

  • ECSC 325 Week 10 - A little review and some new container stuff...

  • Assignment 12 - 50 points - Due November 16

  • Reading: ITIL Guide pages 1-47


Week 11 - October 31 & November 2, 2022

  • No class Monday October 31 - Halloween!

  • ECSC 325 Week 11 - Security discussions and work time...

  • Assignment 13 - 50 points - Due November 16

  • Textbook: Chapters 29 & 30


Week 12 - November 7 & 9, 2022

  • ECSC 325 Week 12 - AWS load balancers and launch configs

  • Assignment 14 - 27 points - Due November 23

  • Textbook: Chapters 17-19


Week 13 - November 14 & 16, 2022

  • No class Wednesday November 16 - Disaster Recovery Exercises...

  • ECSC 325 Week 13 - AWS load balancers and launch configs 2

  • Assignment 15 - 27 points - Due December 5

  • Reading: Packet Sniffing


Week 14 - November 21 & 23, 2022

  • No class Wednesday November 23 - Thanksgiving Holiday

  • ECSC 325 Week 14 - AWS S3 buckets and Lambda functions

  • Reading: Ethical Decision Making and the IT Professional

  • Reading: Ethical Problems in Computing


Week 15 - November 28 & 30, 2022

  • ECSC 325 Week 15 - Network Security, MITM, Disk Updates, Reviews...

  • Group Presentations - Wednesday November 30, 2022


Week 16 - December 5, 2022

  • Final Exam - 6:00PM to 8:00PM