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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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Knowledge Check: Linux System Administration


1. What are the five questions this module opened with?

Answer: What is running? Who started it? Where is its configuration? Where are its logs? How do I verify its state?


2. Why doesn't this Lab environment have systemctl?

Answer: This Lab's container doesn't run systemd as PID 1 — its boot script starts k3s directly instead, the same way most containers don't run a full init system. The concepts (inspecting a running service's process/config/logs/state) are the same regardless of which supervisor manages it.


3. A process exists (pgrep finds a PID) but the service seems unreachable. What's the next thing to check?

Answer: Whether it's actually listening on the expected port (ss -lnt) — a running process and a reachable service are two separate facts; the process could have started but failed to bind its port.


4. Where does a well-behaved Linux service typically write what it's doing?

Answer: A log file, usually under /var/log/.

Instructor Notes

Facilitation: Question 2 is worth confirming explicitly if any student has prior systemd experience — set the expectation before the Lab, not after a confusing error.

Approximate timing: 5 minutes.