Advanced Exercises and Scenarios

Exercise 1: Architecture Review

Given a Moodle deployment diagram, identify risks related to application servers, database capacity, shared storage, cache services, TLS termination, and scheduled tasks.

Exercise 2: Security Review

Review a checklist of authentication methods, administrator accounts, role assignments, password policy, web-service tokens, plugin inventory, and audit logs.

Exercise 3: Performance Investigation

Analyze symptoms such as slow login, delayed emails, quiz slowness, long reports, and high database CPU. Propose likely causes and first checks.

Exercise 4: Upgrade Planning

Create a high-level upgrade plan that includes release notes review, plugin compatibility, backups, staging rehearsal, communication, maintenance window, validation, and rollback decision points.