NCAE rooms
These pages are practice for the NCAE Cyber Games (a competition in which student teams keep servers working while the servers are scored). The practice is arranged in learning paths. A path is a set of rooms in order. A room is one lesson, with tasks to read and questions to answer on the page.
A room is finished when every question in it is right and you have clicked Mark task complete on every reading task. Each room opens when you finish the room before it. Each right answer in a room earns XP (experience points, the count at the top right of every page). Video questions earn no XP.
The site saves your answers and your progress to your account.
To open a room, sign in with a GitHub account (GitHub is a website where people keep and share code). Click Sign in at the top right of this page. If you do not have a GitHub account, open Make a GitHub account and sign in first.
You can add your name and major on your profile. It is not required.
To start, open the starter videos, then the first path below.
Start here: starter videos
These are the tutorial videos of the NCAE Cyber Games YouTube channel. Watch them in number order. When a video has questions, answer them after you watch it. There are 23 videos, about 5 hours in all. You can stop after any video and come back.
Your paths
Paths you have worked in show here, with the next room to work on at the top.
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Foundations: files, network addresses, services and scoring
- Changing files safelyOpen from the start.Continue0 of 10 right
- Addresses, ports and protocolsTo open this room, finish room 1, Changing files safely.Continue0 of 13 right
- Programs, processes and servicesTo open this room, finish room 2, Addresses, ports and protocols.Continue0 of 15 right
- The checker, the board and scoringTo open this room, finish room 3, Programs, processes and services.Continue0 of 8 right
Open the Foundations: files, network addresses, services and scoring path page
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The event, Linux and SSH
- How the event works and how it is scoredTo open this room, finish room 4, The checker, the board and scoring.Continue0 of 19 right
- Linux 1: commands, paths and filesTo open this room, finish room 1, How the event works and how it is scored.Continue0 of 18 right
- Linux 2: reading files, editors, accounts and permissionsTo open this room, finish room 2, Linux 1: commands, paths and files.Continue0 of 24 right
- SSH 1: keep the scored sign-in workingTo open this room, finish room 3, Linux 2: reading files, editors, accounts and permissions.Continue0 of 16 right
Learning paths
There are two paths. Do them in order. Open a path to see its rooms and what opens each one.
- Foundations: files, network addresses, services and scoringChange a file safely, read network addresses and ports, find the program behind a port, and read the results page (the board) that the scoring program (the checker) fills in.4 roomsJoined
- The event, Linux and SSHHow the NCAE Cyber Games are scored, the Linux commands you use to fix a server, and how to keep SSH sign-in (signing in to a server over the network) working.4 roomsJoined
- Foundations: files, network addresses, services and scoringPath
- Changing files safelyRoom in Foundations: files, network addresses, services and scoring
- Addresses, ports and protocolsRoom in Foundations: files, network addresses, services and scoring
- Programs, processes and servicesRoom in Foundations: files, network addresses, services and scoring
- The checker, the board and scoringRoom in Foundations: files, network addresses, services and scoring
- The event, Linux and SSHPath
- How the event works and how it is scoredRoom in The event, Linux and SSH
- Linux 1: commands, paths and filesRoom in The event, Linux and SSH
- Linux 2: reading files, editors, accounts and permissionsRoom in The event, Linux and SSH
- SSH 1: keep the scored sign-in workingRoom in The event, Linux and SSH
No path or room title matches. Try one word, such as linux or ssh.