Extra Credit Assignments
Last modified: Aug 30, 2011
EXTRA CREDIT will be offered for students who want to do extra exercises that may not be covered in class. These extra credit assignments are not to be done in place of the required labs, but in addition to them for purposes of better attaining particular skills.
I will try to offer assignments that represent either easy, medium, or difficult tasks, with the point values reflecting the relative amount of work necessary to do that assignment.
- An example of an easy assignment would be working with the textbook and either writing your own quiz questions relating to the chapter content, or answering unstarred or single-starred question at the back of each chapter.
- An example of a medium assignment would be one that is similar to a lab of the week, e.g. doing an additional installation or a modified installation.
- A difficult assignment is one that requires you to break new ground on your own and accomplish a task demonstrating mastery of one of the course's major concepts. Thes assignments will tend to be aligned towards building your own
distribution of Linux or your own Virtual Appliance.
5 Point Extra Credit Assignment
For any given lesson, you can get 5 extra credit points for writing 10
quiz questions relating to the current chapter being studied. The questions, and answers, must be entered in the format specified below, and you should spread the question topics evenly throughout the chapter, i.e. one question per subsection. Your questions must either be in true/false or multiple choice format, and should reflect the salient points of the chapter.
Format
- Each question should be a single text file. The name of the file must be the question number, a number from 1 to 10.
- The first line of the file should be the question. Do not precede the question with the number.
- A blank line must follow the question.
- Possible answers must be indented and preceded by a lowercase letter: a,b,c...
- The last line of the file should contain a single uppercase letter that matches the correct response.
Example Question
What is the name of this course?
a) UNIX/Linux System Architecture
b) UNIX/Linux System Administration
c) UNIX/Linux Network Administration
d) Introduction to UNIX/Linux
B
Turnin
To turn in these files, create a subdirectory in your home directory with the name Chapter#Quiz, where # is the number of the chapter from which the questions were taken. Then copy your questions to this directory. e.g.
ssh logname@opus.cabrillo.edu "mkdir Chapter#Quiz"
scp [1-9]* logname@opus.cabrillo.edu:Chapter#Quiz/