Tips & Tricks
This Guide will provide you with some tips and tricks to help you get through the following labs
Partitioning and Formatting a Disk Drive
Maintain Efficient Process Utilization
Using logs to Help You Track Down An Issue
These labs are a bit tricky. Here are common mistakes that learners make, as well as, tips on how to deal with the labs.
Week 4: Partitioning and Formatting a Disk Drive
For the Week 4 lab: "Partitioning and Formatting a Disk Drive in Linux"
It's important to read the Note in the blue box stating:
Note: These may be swapped for you, and your VM may be mounted on sda instead of sdb.
This will change the commands used in the lab, so when you see \[MOUNT DRIVE\] replace it with your mount drive (sda or sdb) and when yousee \[SECOND DRIVE\] replace it with the other one. If your VM is mounted on sda, the screenshots will also be flipped from what you will see.
If you work on the wrong drive it will not count it as correct, even if you follow all the directions!
Make sure you are working on the unmounted drive!
Additionally, there are optional steps (used to practice the commands) shown in this lab. Please decipher which ones you need to do for the task!
If you mix up the optional steps with what you need to do it will count it as incorrect and it will be hard to troubleshoot the problem.
Week 5: Maintain Efficient Process Utilization
Maintain Efficient Process Utilization on Windows and Linux
Please substitute "[Process ID]" to the ID that you are trying to terminate!
Do not just copy & paste the commands given (taskkill /F /PID [PROCESS ID] or sudo kill [PROCESS ID]) and expect it to do something.
Week 6: Using logs to Help You Track Down An Issue
For the Week 6 labs, you will have 5 tasks.
It will only give you directions on how to do the first one. For the rest of the tasks you're going to have to remember what you did from past labs!
Week 6 is the culmination of everything you've learned to become an OS Power user!
Make sure you know how to do these fixes 😉
Updating software that's out-of-date (Technical Support Fundamentals Wk 3)
Finding and deleting files (OS and You Wk 1)
Modifying file permissions (OS and You Wk 2)
Finding and terminating specific processes (OS and You Wk 5)
You will also have to manually check your progress (sometimes it does not do it automatically) by clicking on the yellow button on the top-right (where the score is).
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