Lab notebook

Ongoing practice notes and draft writeups.

These pages collect current lab work for Linux fundamentals, networking, Windows support, and security coursework. Some notes are polished enough to read; others are placeholders for future evidence and cleanup.

Notebook Docker Linux

Linux Fundamentals

Linux Exam Sandboxes

A repeatable Docker lab kit for practicing CLI navigation, users and groups, permissions, packages, processes, services, logs, networking, archives, and Red Hat style administration.

  • Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 12, and Rocky Linux 9 practice containers.
  • Dedicated network-client, CoreDNS, Nginx web, and broken-state containers.
  • PowerShell launcher for up, status, shell, reset, logs, and teardown workflows.
Notebook Networking

Troubleshooting

DNS and Connectivity Troubleshooting

A networking lab that checks local interface state, route selection, DNS resolution, HTTP reachability, sockets, and packet-level evidence against a controlled exam.lab environment.

  • Known DNS target: dns.exam.lab.
  • Known web target: web.exam.lab.
  • Validation script: check-networking.
Draft Windows

Windows Client OS

Draft Support Ticket

A simulated support-ticket writeup for a Windows 11 printer issue after a router/DHCP change. It is useful practice, but it is not a finished public case study.

  • Symptom, hypothesis, test, result, and final user update.
  • Relevant Windows GUI path and command output.
  • Plain-language closure note suitable for a user or teammate.
Next Writeup Security

Digital Forensics

Forensics Coursework Notes

Planned public notes for Autopsy, file-system concepts, Windows artifacts, timeline thinking, and evidence handling. The public version should avoid sensitive data and separate observation from interpretation.

  • Facts observed from the tool or artifact.
  • Interpretation with confidence level.
  • Short conclusion written for a non-specialist reader.