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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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Guided Exercise: Plan Your Inspection Before You Type Anything

This is a paper exercise — commit to a plan before running commands in the Lab.

Your task

You're told "the payments service seems slow." Before touching a keyboard, write down, in order, which of these five questions you'd check FIRST, SECOND, and so on, and the one command you'd use for each:

  • Is it running at all?
  • Is it listening on its expected port?
  • What does its configuration say?
  • What do its recent logs say?
  • Has anything changed recently?

A worked shape to check yourself against

A reasonable order: (1) is it running — pgrep/ps; (2) is it listening — ss -lnt; (3) recent logs — tail -n 50 <logfile> (recent activity is usually more informative than config for a sudden "slow" complaint); (4) configuration — only if logs point at a config-driven cause; (5) recent changes — depends on context (deployment history, ls -la timestamps on config files). There's no single correct order, but "running, then listening, then logs" before jumping to config is a defensible default — you're checking the cheapest, fastest-answering questions first.

Instructor Notes

Facilitation: There's genuine room for disagreement on ordering here — the value is in students defending their reasoning, not converging on one "correct" sequence.

Approximate timing: 8-10 minutes live discussion; 5 minutes self-paced.