Set 1

Ubuntu L1-Cadet Industry Assignments

Root Working Directory: ~/hello23

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1. IT Support: Employee Workspace Setup

Scenario: You are preparing a workspace for a new employee.

Instructions:

• Navigate to ~/hello23

• Create a folder named employee_workspace

• Inside it, create subfolders:

  • Documents

  • Downloads

  • Logs

  • Backups

• Create placeholder files in each folder

• Display the full directory tree

Commands Expected: cd, mkdir, touch, tree, ls

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2. DevOps Trainee: Disk Usage Audit

Scenario: Your team needs a quick disk usage report.

Instructions:

• Navigate to ~/hello23

• Create a folder called disk_audit

• Capture disk usage information

• Identify largest directories

• Save all outputs into disk_report.txt

Commands Expected: df -h, du -sh, >, >>, cat

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3. System Administrator: Package Inventory

Scenario: Management requests a package inventory snapshot.

Instructions:

• Navigate to ~/hello23

• Create a folder named package_inventory

• List all installed packages

• Filter editor-related packages

• Count total installed packages

• Save results to packages.txt

Commands Expected: dpkg -l, apt list --installed, grep, wc -l

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4. Production Support: Log Investigation

Scenario: An application reports frequent errors.

Instructions:

• Navigate to ~/hello23

• Create a folder called log_analysis

• Inspect system logs

• Extract only error-related entries

• Save extracted logs to errors.log

Commands Expected: cd, ls -lh, tail, head, grep

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5. Security Analyst: Permission Hardening

Scenario: Security audit found unsafe permissions.

Instructions:

• Navigate to ~/hello23

• Create a folder named secure_files

• Create sample files

• Change permissions to owner-only

• Verify permissions visually

Commands Expected: chmod, ls -l, permission bits understanding

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6. Cloud Engineer: Process Monitoring

Scenario: Monitor system performance.

Instructions:

• Navigate to ~/hello23

• Capture active process list

• Identify top memory-consuming processes

• Save process snapshot to process_report.txt

Commands Expected: ps, top, htop, output redirection

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7. SRE: Service Health Check

Scenario: Verify service reliability.

Instructions:

• Navigate to ~/hello23

• Check status of ssh service

• Restart the service if required

• Capture service logs

• Save output to service_status.txt

Commands Expected: systemctl status, start, restart, journalctl

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8. Network Operations: Connectivity Diagnostics

Scenario: Investigate network issues.

Instructions:

• Navigate to ~/hello23

• Check IP configuration

• Test connectivity to public servers

• Trace network route

• Save all results to network_report.txt

Commands Expected: ip a, ping, traceroute, nslookup

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9. QA Engineer: File Integrity Verification

Scenario: Ensure release files are unchanged.

Instructions:

• Navigate to ~/hello23

• Create a folder called integrity_check

• Generate checksums for files

• Compare checksum outputs

• Document results in checksum_report.txt

Commands Expected: md5sum, sha256sum, redirection

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10. DevOps Engineer: Environment Cleanup

Scenario: Prepare system for reuse.

Instructions:

• Navigate to ~/hello23

• Identify unused files and directories

• Safely delete them

• Verify reclaimed disk space

Commands Expected: find, rm, rm -r, df -h

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