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ced4568andClaude Sonnet 5 e007bcf000 feat(root02): author Linux Administration & Networking
Adds all 6 ROOT 02 modules (Linux system administration, storage & filesystems, the
Networking Mental Model, Linux network inspection, DNS & HTTP, Linux troubleshooting) — 37
activities, each with a real lesson, demonstration/guided exercise, knowledge check, hands-on
Lab, and reflection. The Networking Mental Model module (M3) gets deliberately extra depth per
its "critical module" designation, with no lab by design — conceptual mastery via knowledge
check and guided exercise, matching root-05-m00's own precedent.

Adds 6 new hands-on Linux/networking scenarios plus 2 MCQs: linux-service-inspection (inspects
the platform's own real nginx without touching it — a genuinely safe, real service-inspection
target that avoids ever risking the Lab's own connectivity), linux-service-lifecycle (start/
verify/stop a fully controllable service), linux-storage-inspection, linux-network-inspection
(ip/ss/getent/curl, each framed as answering one specific diagnostic question),
linux-dns-http-diagnosis (a genuine DNS-resolves-but-wrong-port failure, diagnosed and fixed),
and linux-troubleshooting-framework (a real missing-config-file failure, resolved via the
RootNode Observe/Evidence/Hypothesis/Test/Repair/Validate/Prevent framework). All tested
end-to-end via the real scenario-validation API, including negative tests confirming they fail
when unsolved.

Wires rootnode-linux-networking-assessment (2 required + 4 random-draw scenarios) using the
existing Phase 3B assessment engine.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
2026-08-26 17:07:46 -05:00

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# Reflection: You Now Have a Repeatable Checklist
## Reflection questions
1. Before this module, if someone said "check whether the service is healthy," what would you
have actually done? How does that compare to the five-question checklist now?
2. You started and stopped a service you fully controlled this module. What's different about
doing the same thing to a service you DIDN'T start, on a machine you don't fully understand
yet?
## Real Ops takeaway
**The five-question checklist works on ANY unfamiliar Linux system, not just this Lab.** Running
process, listening port, config location, logs, and current state — this is genuinely how
experienced engineers approach a machine they've never touched before. You'll use this exact
checklist again in ROOT 04 when a container "doesn't seem to be working," and again in
Kubernetes when a Pod isn't behaving as expected — the tools change, the checklist doesn't.
This module is complete. Continue to the next module.
## Instructor Notes
**Discussion questions for a live classroom:** question 2 is worth real discussion time — the
honest answer is "you should be more careful and inspect more before acting," a good early
seed for the least-privilege/caution habits ROOT 09 formalizes much later.
**Approximate timing:** 5-8 minutes live discussion; 5 minutes self-paced writing.