CMAC-3990.200 202610

CMAC 3990 - Systems Administration and Operations

Fall 2025 - Section 200


Week 1 - August 26th/28th, 2025

  • CMAC 3990 Week 1 - Intro and Overview

  • CMAC 3990 Assignment 1 - 50 points - Due September 3rd, 2025

  • CMAC 3990 Assignment 2 - 35 points - Due September 5th, 2025

  • Textbook: Chapters 1-3


Week 2 - September 2nd/4th, 2025

  • CMAC 3990 Week 2 - Network & CLI, Cloud, DNS

  • CMAC 3990 Assignment 3 - 50 points - Due September 12th, 2025

  • Textbook: Chapters 6-8


Week 3 - September 9th/11th, 2025

  • CMAC 3990 Week 3 - Directory Services, Network Devices, LDAP, and SAMBA

  • CMAC 3990 Assignment 4 - 50 points - Due September 19th, 2025

  • Presentation Information

  • SSH & Tunnel Help Information

  • Textbook: Chapters 4-5, 16


Week 4 - September 16th/18th, 2025

  • CMAC 3990 Week 4 - Directory Services Review, AWS Educate

  • CMAC 3990 Assignment 5 - 50 points - Due September 26th, 2025

  • Textbook: Chapters 13-15


Week 5 - September 23rd/25th, 2025

  • CMAC 3990 Week 5 - Printers, OOB, DHCP, NTP

  • CMAC 3990 Assignment 6 - 50 points - Due October 3rd, 2025

  • Textbook: Chapters 10-12


Week 6 - September 30th/October 2nd, 2025

  • CMAC 3990 Week 6 - DR, Storage, Network Virtualization

  • CMAC 3990 Assignment 7 - 50 points - Due October 10th, 2025

  • Textbook: Chapters 20-22


Week 7 - October 7th/9th, 2025

  • CMAC 3990 Week 7 - Monitoring, Install options, Remote Access

  • CMAC 3990 Assignment 8 - 95 points - Due October 17th, 2025

  • Textbook: Chapters 9, 23, 26


Week 8 - October 14th/16th, 2025

  • CMAC 3990 Week 8 - Midterm Exam, Virtualization, Containers

  • CMAC 3990 Assignment 9 - 50 points - Due October 24th, 2025

  • Textbook: Chapters 24-25, 31


Week 9 - October 21st/25th, 2025

  • CMAC 3990 Week 9 - Containers, Documentation, Change Management

  • CMAC 3990 Assignment 10 - 50 points - Due October 31st, 2025

  • Reading: ITIL v3 Guide pages 1-45


Week 10 - October 28th/30th, 2025

  • CMAC 3990 Week 10 - More Network Services, Runlevels, Reviews and such

  • CMAC 3990 Assignment 11 - 63 points - Due November 14th, 2025

  • Textbook: Chapters 29 & 30


Week 11 - November 4th/6th, 2025

  • CMAC 3990 Week 11 - Security, Social Issues, Ethical Issues

  • CMAC 3990 Assignment 12 - 72 points - Due November 21st, 2025

  • Textbook: Chapters 27 & 28


Week 12 - November 11th/13th, 2025

  • CMAC 3990 Week 12 - Cloud and AWS

  • CMAC 3990 Assignment 13 - 65 points - Due December 5th, 2025

  • CMAC 3990 Assignment AWS - Bonus 50 points - Due December 5th, 2025

  • Textbook: Chapters 17-19


Week 13 - November 18th/20th, 2025

  • CMAC 3990 Week 13 - Auto Scaling, S3, and Lambda

  • Reading: Ethical Decision Making and the IT Professional

  • Reading: Ethical Problems in Computing

  • Reading: Packet Sniffing in a Switched Environment


Week 14 - November 25th/27th, 2025

  • Thanksgiving Break - No Classes


Week 15 - December 2nd/4th, 2025

  • CMAC 3990 Week 15 - Presentations and DevOps/IaC

Week 16 - December 9th, 2025

  • Final Exam - 5:00pm - 7:00pm