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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 Fixed the Real Problem, Not the Suspected One
## Reflection questions
1. Before running any commands in this module's Lab, what would you have guessed was broken?
Was your guess right?
2. Why does correctly categorizing a failure (DNS vs. routing vs. TCP vs. application) matter
more than just "trying things until something works"?
## Real Ops takeaway
**"DNS must be broken" is one of the most common wrong first guesses in real incident response
— and disproving or confirming it takes seconds, not minutes.** The habit this module builds —
categorize the failure precisely before attempting a fix — is what separates a five-minute
diagnosis from an hour of trying unrelated things. This exact reasoning, applied to Kubernetes
Services/Ingress/DNS later, is one of the most valuable transferable skills in this entire
program.
This module is complete. Continue to the final module of this course.
## Instructor Notes
**Discussion questions for a live classroom:** question 1 works well as a live poll before
revealing the Lab's actual root cause — the gap between instinct and evidence is the lesson.
**Approximate timing:** 5-8 minutes live discussion; 5 minutes self-paced writing.