Systems Administration Assignment

Text book: The Practice of System and Network Administration, Third Edition

1. Submit your responses to these exercises. For credit:

- Repeat each question above each response
- Answer in your own words, and reference sources

2. Which RAID characteristics would you want for an array supporting real-time data collection from environmental sensors or factory monitoring and why?

3. Explain several ways that automation can improve our SA productivity. What two common SSA tasks might benefit most from automation and how can we apply it to them.

4. Compare the small batch principle with lean development techniques. To illustrate explain how these approaches address concerns such as risky behaviors, MVP, product QA and product release.

5. Explain how ‘porcelain ‘systems differ from ‘paper system'. For each type of system, give three examples (6 total) of proper application.