A 24-week hands-on path from Linux fundamentals to server administration, security and automation.
This is an independent curriculum informed by beginner topics in Linux Foundation LFS101 and practical LFCS skill areas; it is not a Linux Foundation course or credential. Perform potentially destructive disk and firewall labs only inside a disposable VirtualBox test VM.
W01 Linux introduction and lab environment setup 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes Operating systems, kernel and Linux distributions Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes Create a Linux VM in VirtualBox Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes Linux login, desktop and terminal Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes root, regular user and sudo Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes Linux man pages and help system Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB First Linux practical lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly review and quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W02 Shell, terminal and navigation 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes Shell, bash and command prompt Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes pwd, ls, cd and directory navigation Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes Tab completion, history and wildcards Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes man, apropos, which, type and help Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes Pipes, redirection and exit codes Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB CLI navigation lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W03 Filesystem and file management 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes mkdir, touch, cp, mv and rm Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes cat, less, head, tail and file Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes Hard links and symbolic links Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes find, locate and stat Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Filesystem navigation lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W04 Text editors and text processing 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes nano and vim basics Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes grep and regular expressions Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes sort, uniq, wc, cut and tr Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes Text processing with sed Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes Analyze columns with awk Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Text processing lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W05 Users and groups 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes UID, GID and account concepts Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes useradd, adduser, usermod and userdel Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes groupadd, groups and id Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes passwd and account expiry Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes sudo and administrative privileges Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Users and groups lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W06 Permissions, ownership and ACLs 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes rwx and numeric permissions 755/644 Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes chmod symbolic and numeric modes Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes chown, chgrp and ownership Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes umask and default permissions Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes Special bits: SUID, SGID and sticky bit Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Permissions and ACL lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W07 Package management and repositories 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes Packages, repositories and dependencies Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes apt update, upgrade, install and remove Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes dpkg and package inspection Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes RPM and DNF fundamentals Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes Repositories, cache and package troubleshooting Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Package management lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W08 Processes and job management 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes Processes, PIDs and parent-child relationships Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes ps, top, htop and uptime Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes Signals: TERM, KILL and HUP Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes Jobs, bg, fg, nohup and disown Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes nice and process priority Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Process troubleshooting lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W09 systemd, services and boot process 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes Linux boot sequence: firmware, bootloader and kernel Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes systemd targets and units Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes systemctl status/start/stop/restart Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes enable/disable and service dependencies Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes journalctl and service logs Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB systemd service lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W10 Disks, partitions and filesystems 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes lsblk, blkid, fdisk and parted Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes MBR and GPT partition tables Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes ext4, xfs and filesystem concepts Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes mkfs, mount and umount Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes /etc/fstab and UUID Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Partitions and mounts lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W11 Swap and LVM management 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes Swap files and swap partitions Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes LVM concepts: PV, VG and LV Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes pvcreate, vgcreate and lvcreate Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes Filesystem resize and extending an LV Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes LVM snapshots and safety Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB LVM lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W12 RAID, backup and recovery 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10 concepts Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes Software RAID and mdadm concepts Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes tar, gzip, xz and zip Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes rsync and incremental backups Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes Backup strategy: 3-2-1 and restore tests Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Backup and recovery lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W13 Linux networking fundamentals 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes IP address, prefix, gateway and routes Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes ip link, ip addr and ip route Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes ping, tracepath, ss and sockets Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes DNS clients: resolv.conf, resolvectl and dig Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes NetworkManager and netplan concepts Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Linux network troubleshooting lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W14 SSH and secure remote administration 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes SSH client and server architecture Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes ssh-keygen and public/private keys Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes authorized_keys and key-based login Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes sshd_config and secure settings Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes File transfer with scp and sftp Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB SSH hardening lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W15 Firewalls and Linux server services 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes What is a firewall and packet filtering Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes UFW basics and allow/deny rules Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes nftables/iptables overview Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes Service ports and listening sockets Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes Nginx or Apache web server concepts Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Firewall and web service lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W16 Logging and system monitoring 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes journald and journalctl Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes rsyslog, facilities and severity Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes Log rotation and log files Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes df, du, free, vmstat and top Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes iostat, sar and sysstat basics Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB System monitoring lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W17 Cron, systemd timers and automation 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes Cron daemon and crontab format Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes crontab -e and scheduled tasks Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes systemd timers and calendar expressions Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes at and batch concepts Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes Automation logs and failure handling Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Scheduling lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W18 Bash scripting: fundamentals 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes Scripts, shebang and executable bit Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes Variables, quoting and command substitution Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes Read, positional arguments and exit codes Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes if/elif/else and test expressions Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes for/while loops and arrays Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Bash scripting lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W19 Bash scripting: functions and error handling 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes Functions and local variables Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes Input validation and error messages Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes set -euo pipefail and safer scripts Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes Logging and timestamps Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes Backup scripts and restore tests Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Bash automation lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W20 Linux security and hardening 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes Principle of least privilege Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes Updates, package security and repository hygiene Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes SSH hardening and sudo policy Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes Firewalls, open ports and service minimization Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes File permissions, logs and audit trail Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Linux hardening checklist lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly security review Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W21 Virtualization, containers and Git fundamentals 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes VMs, hypervisors and snapshots Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes What containers are and how they differ from VMs Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes Docker images, containers and volumes basics Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes Git repositories, commits and branches Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes README files and technical documentation Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Git and virtualization lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W22 Introduction to Ansible and server automation 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes Configuration management and idempotency Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes Ansible inventory and ad-hoc commands Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes Playbooks and YAML syntax Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes Variables, tasks and handlers Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes Automation security and secrets Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Automation design lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W23 Capstone: a secure Linux server 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes Plan server requirements and architecture Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes Build users, groups, permissions and storage Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes Configure networking, SSH and firewall Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes Set up web service, logs and monitoring Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes Backup, automation and security checklist Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Final Linux server practical Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Final assessment and skills audit Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
W24 Troubleshooting and system recovery 0 / 7 ＋ Weekly milestone: explain the topic independently and complete the practical task without critical errors.
Monday · 60 minutes Symptoms of boot and service failures Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Tuesday · 60 minutes Disk full, inode exhaustion and read-only filesystems Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Wednesday · 60 minutes Network and DNS troubleshooting checklist Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Thursday · 60 minutes Resource bottlenecks: CPU, RAM and I/O Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Friday · 60 minutes Recovery, rescue mode and restoring from backup Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Saturday · 60 minutes LAB Incident response lab Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Sunday · 60 minutes REVIEW Weekly quiz and troubleshooting report Complete the practical activity in your lab, record the commands and results, and note any errors you encountered.
Safety: perform partitioning, mkfs, LVM, RAID and firewall changes only in a disposable lab VM. A wrong disk or rule can destroy data or interrupt access.