Each lab should contain the following:
• Title
• Date Revised
• Lab Authored by
• Executive summary of what the objectives of the lab are and what will be doing in
the lab. Have an introductory paragraph that explains what the lab includes. This
is an overview of what the students are about to do.
• List what equipment is necessary. When instructions are given to students about
install or run something on your linux machine, always use the words on your
Red Hat 7.2 Virtual Machine, or on your Red Hat 8.0 physical machine, or on
your Windows XP virtual Machine, etc. Always explain which machine, we have
many machines!!!! Provide near the beginning of the lab a section on what
equipment is needed to complete this lab, for example Equipment required your
Red Hat 8.0 physical machine, a Red Hat 7.2 Virtual Machine, and a Windows
XP virtual Machine. Provide a diagram.
• Pages should be numbered and sub-sections used to break up lab
• The lab will be posted on the web, this means we cannot copy or steal text, figures
from books, web sites, etc. All text that comes from some one else has been
referenced with [1] where 1 is the number of the reference in the references
section of the lab.
• All programs/exploits that we use in a lab have a web URL in the lab telling
students where they may obtain the program. This is to make sure that a student
can do the lab at home without our lab CDs and that as much as is possible, we
have not created exploits, we have just used what already exists. There will be
exceptions to this as we do create new exploits but hopefully we create exploits
that can only be used in a lab environment and are not dangerous outside our lab.
• If there are many parts to the lab, make sure you number the sections of the lab so
if a student has a problem say in the third part of the second task, we know where
that is in the lab. We have many independent tasks, number the sections of the
lab. Number the questions in the lab with the section number and a question
number.
• Either leave enough space in the lab for the questions to be answered or provide
an answer sheet in the back with the questions repeated where students can write
their answers.
• Intro and background
• Specific exercises with specific tasks to complete and method to determine
students completed the tasks
• Electronic copy of word lab document ready to handout, lab written ready to be
issued, no rewrite required prior to issue to students
• Include a section in the lab writeup near the end “suggested additions and future
enhancements”
• Power point presentation of background and lab intro/motivation
• Include in the powerpoint presentation near the end “What you will do in the lab”
