Advanced System Administration (CIS-2235) Labs

This document contains a listing of lab assignments for the Advanced System Administration class.

Getting Ready. In this lab, you will set up a Ubunutu Virtual Machine for use in later labs.
Partitioning. In this lab, you will move the /home filesystem to a new storage partition.
RAID and LVM. In this lab, you will create two RAID arrays consisting of two mirrored drives each, and then use the Logical Volume Manager to combine the space on both RAID arrays into a single logical volume.
Timed Commands. In this lab you will experiment with cron and at.
Installing a Web Server. In this lab you will install either Apache or NGINX and demonstrate their operation.
Cryptography. In this lab you will use gpg to encrypt/decrypt files, and the openssl to create a self-signed certificate.
Python. In this lab you will write some Python scripts to explore how the language works in the context of system administration.
File Servers. In this lab you will configure several ways of sharing files between systems.
Backup. In this lab you will experiment with using tar and rsync to make backups.