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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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{
"id": "linux-troubleshooting-order-mcq",
"title": "Where Does the Failure Actually Live?",
"category": "Troubleshooting",
"isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
"difficulty": "Medium",
"type": "mcq",
"weight": 4,
"description": "## Where Does the Failure Actually Live?\n\n`getent hosts myapp.internal` correctly returns an IP address. `curl http://myapp.internal:8080/` returns \"Connection refused.\" What does this combination actually tell you?",
"options": [
{ "id": "a", "text": "DNS is broken — fix the hosts file or DNS server first" },
{ "id": "b", "text": "The name resolves correctly, so the problem is downstream of DNS — most likely nothing is listening on port 8080 at that address" },
{ "id": "c", "text": "The application returned an error page" },
{ "id": "d", "text": "The network cable is unplugged" }
],
"correct_option": "b",
"explanation": "A successful DNS resolution proves the name-to-IP step works — it tells you nothing about whether anything is listening on the port you're trying to reach. \"Connection refused\" specifically means a TCP SYN reached the destination and was actively rejected, most commonly because no process is listening on that port. This is exactly the kind of layer-by-layer reasoning the module's framework teaches: never re-diagnose a layer that already gave you a clean answer.",
"hints": [],
"setup_commands": [],
"default_namespace": "default",
"teardown_commands": []
}