I'm teaching two courses and they need finals. This final will be mandatory and should be completed in approximately two-four hours. It's an internet based course.

First course uses this book:
ISBN: 1-4188-3719-9

Second course uses this book:
Security + Guide to Network Security Fundamentals, Second Edition



I'm looking to create a final that doesn't suck ass. I want to come up with something creative but lack creativity, that covers material from the books. What do you guys think? It doesn't have to be cumulative.


Example: as an extra credit assignment in the second course, I had them war drive and log their results and write up a short paper about their experience including screen shots of netstumbler installation and log files. I had a lot of positive feedback and i feel like the assignment went over pretty well.

[Edited on December 11, 2008 at 8:55 AM. Reason : no, these classes are not at NCSU. ]

12/11/2008 8:53:41 AM

for the second course, have them set up a network and secure it as best they can using the principles they learned in class

if you're able to break into it, they fail

12/11/2008 9:42:27 AM

i thought i read recently that technically war driving was illegal if you connected to the networks? didn't some guy get prosecuted for it recently? or was that just due to his activity while on the network he hopped onto and not the actual war driving part

12/11/2008 10:08:04 AM

They were given instructions to gather information using netstumbler.

completely legit.

12/11/2008 10:09:43 AM

where are you teaching at?

12/11/2008 11:17:29 AM

where are you teaching at?

12/11/2008 5:28:38 PM

where are you teaching at?

12/11/2008 5:34:26 PM

Along the lines of what evan said,

Set up a honeypot machine/network. Let the final be allowing the kids to hammer on it to see how secure it is, find vulnerabilities, and get access.

You can grade them based on their WRITE-UPS of the reasoning, order, concepts and tooling they used to validate the security on the network. Let's them play, refer to the material, and apply it in a useful manner.

12/11/2008 11:25:32 PM