Title: Week 11 at a Glance
Course: TAACCCT - Open Source Server Admin.- CIS 235 > Section: Course Content

Week 11 at a Glance:

1. Chapter 13 - Linux Operations & Administration 1^st  Edition Authors: Nadine Basta, Dustin Finamore, Alfred Basta, Serge Palladino - Publisher: Cengage Learning
2. Read Chapter 13
3. Watch a YouTube video on NAS vs. SAN vs. DAS entitled SAN vs. NAS vs. DAS: Competing or Complementary?
  1. Many small NAS devices are actually small, dedicated, Linux systems in disguise (e.g. some of the Thecus NAS systems).   Additionally, you can connect to a NAS from a Linux server using NFS.   While the term "DAS" sounds ominous, but it's actually just a more technical name for things like a "USB attached external hard drive."   Lastly, SAN.  Some SAN devices are also Linux devices (e.g. some of the Synology SAN systems).   You might connect to them via NFS (or something called iSCSI).
4. Complete activities 13-1 and 13-2
5. Participate in the Chapter 13 discussions
6. Take the Chapter 13 reading quiz - Assignment generated from the following publisher test pool. - Linux Operations & Administration 1st  Edition Authors: Nadine Basta, Dustin Finamore, Alfred Basta, Serge Palladino - Publisher: Cengage Learning
7. Study for Exam 2
8. Take Exam 2
  1. To closer match an actual certification exam, the exam is only multiple choice questions.   As is also the case in a certification exam, time will be an important part of the exam.  You will have 90 minutes to complete 40 questions.
  2. Unlike a certification exam, this exam is open book, open notes, open Internet, and open running computer.  Please make sure to have a connection to your Linux system before beginning this exam. You will only have a single attempt on this exam, and once started it cannot be stopped or restarted (but you may revisit questions).
  3. Time is an important aspect of the exam, so please watch your time and make sure you have enough time for all of the questions.

Intro:

This chapter we are working on NFS. I couldn't find a NFS video that I liked, but did find one about remote file system options (which sometimes use NFS).  NFS is the primary way multiple Linux computers would share a common set of directories.  VMWare also uses it as one way for their servers (ESXi) to connect to remote/shared disk drives.  For some places, multiple machines would share a common /home, so no matter what system you log into, your files are already there.

This week is also exam 2.   Please complete the exam by Saturday evening and try not to wait until the last moment.

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