System Administration

Faculty: BIT
Year: VIII

Teaching Schedule Examination Scheme

Hours/Week
Theory Tutorial Practical Internal Assessment Final Total
Theory Practical Theory Practical
3 - 3 150
20 50 80 -

1. Network Architecture and Networking Lecture

software
1.1 Mainframe Architecture Lecture 1
1.2 Client/server Architecture Lecture 2
1.2.1 Different Client/server models Lecture 3
1.3 File server Architecture Lecture 3
1.4 Upsizing Lecture 4
1.5 Downsizing Lecture 4
1.6 What does a client expect from as OS? Lecture 4
1.7 Analysis of client OS trends Assignment
1.7.1 Analysis of NT, UNIX clients Assignment
1.8 Analysis of server OS trends Assignment
1.8.1 Analysis of NT, UNIX clients Assignment

Labs (2 labs required)

Lab 1: Basic Linux Commands and File system
Lab 2: Basic of Text processing and Text Editor in Linux

2. Network Transport systems, protocols, addressing and routing

2.1 Ethernet and the IEEE 802.3 standards Lecture 5
2.2 Protocols associated with TCP/IP Assignment
2.3 Setting protocol priority Lecture 6
2.4 Selecting right protocol Lecture 6
2.5 Internet addressing conventions and Lecture 7
scaling issues
2.6 Classical subnetting Lecture 7
2.7 Generalized subnetting Lecture 8
2.8 Variable length subnet mask and Lecture 9 and 10
supernetting
2.9 Manipulation of subnet and supernet Lecture 10
2.10 Open standards based IP routing Lecture 11
protocols

Labs( 3 labs required)

Lab3: Basic Cisco Router Configuration
Lab 4: Basic Static route configuration and dynamic routing in RIPv2
Lab 5: Open Standards Dynamic Routing with and OSPF
3. Data Storing and fault-tolerance techniques
3.1 The structure of different file system Lecture 12
techniques
3.2 Managing different file system in Lecture 12
network
3.3 Disk-storage fault tolerance Lecture 13
3.4 Developing a disaster recovery plan Lecture 14
3.5 Developing a backup plan Lecture 14
3.6 Restoring and protecting an operating Lecture 15
system
3.7 Directory restore and replication Assignment

Labs( 2 labs required)

Lab6: Basic Windows networking and file sharing
Lab 7: Disk management in Windows/ Configuration of NFS for network file
sharing

4. Administrative and network operational models

4.1 Concepts of administrative models Lecture 16
4.2 Workgroup Lecture 17
4.3 Domain Lecture 17
4.4 Tree Lecture 19
4.5 Forest Lecture 17
4.6 Global catalog Lecture 18
4.7 Schema Master Lecture 18
4.8 Light Weight Directory Access Lecture 16
Protocol (LDAP)

Labs( 1 lab required)

Lab8: installation of Active directory Services/LDAP server and enable
centralized authentication.

5. Network monitoring and control

5.1 Network monitoring architecture Lecture 19
5.2 Auditing Assignment
5.3 Account Monitoring and control Lecture 19
5.4 Security control Lecture 20
5.5 User Environment configuration and Lecture 20
protocol
5.6 Fault monitoring Lecture 20

Labs( 1 lab required)

Lab9: installation of SNMP, Nagios and MRTG and basic monitoring
configuration

6. Network protocols and services

6.1 Introduction to Network protocols Lecture 21
6.2 TCP/IP Assignment
 6.3 DHCP Lecture 21
6.4 WINS Assignment
6.5 DNS Lecture 22

Labs( 2 labs required)

Lab10:Installation and configuration of DHCP server
Lab 11: Installation and configuration of DNS server

7. Routing and Remote Access Services

7.1 Introduction to Routing and Remote Lecture 23
Access Services
7.2 Features of Routing and Remote Access Lecture 23
Services
7.3 Virtual Private Networks Lecture 24
7.4 RRAS Tools Assignment

8. Authentication Protocols
8.1 Extensible Authentication Protocol Lecture 25
8.2 CHAP Lecture 25
8.3 SPAP Lecture 26
8.4 PAP Lecture 26

Labs( 2 labs required)

Lab12:Configuration of PPP Server
Lab 13: Configuration of VPN Server

9. Network Security and essentials

9.1 Attack Services and Mechanisms Lecture 27-32
9.2 Cryptography Lecture 33-36
9.2.1 Conventional encryption and
message confidential
9.2.2 Public-key cryptography and
message authentication
9.3 Network security application Lecture 37-42
9.3.1 Kerberos , X.509
9.3.2 Pretty good privacy Assignment
9.3.3 IP Security
9.3.4 SSL, TLS, SET
9.4 System Security Lecture 43-45
9.4.1 Intruders and virus Assignment
9.4.2 Firewalls

Labs( 2 labs required)

Lab12:Configuration of Firewall
Lab 13: working with Security tools to analyze and protect attack services.
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