Final Paper Information

Contents: What should be in the paper?

Your paper should be on a system administration topic area that you would like to follow up on. This should should be five to seven (or more if you like) pages. Some suggestions might be

• Writing about a new area such as approaches to booting, or developments in security.
• Independent work, where you outline an innovative procedure or thought, such as a new approach to monitoring in the cloud or even something like a new file system design.
• A significant installation project in the lab environment, such as setting up a three-layer architecture (a.k.a. three tier architecture) service. Please set up separate virtual machines for these.

Physical format

Please print the paper single-sided, on lettersize (8.5 x 11) paper, and the text should be double-spaced. Please staple your paper. Please do not email me this paper, it should be handed to me in class on December 1st.

TurnItIn

In order to automate the process of finding plagiarism, we will also use TurnItIn. You must submit a copy of your paper before class on December 1st to the TurnItIn system via Blackboard.

Late Policy

No late papers will be accepted.

Grading

The paper will be graded on adherence to formatting instructions, good grammar and punctuation, clear and coherent reasoning, and demonstrated knowledge about system administration.