Exercise 3: The Three "Getting There" Scenarios — Possible Solution ==================================================================== THE THREE SCENARIOS, PER THIS CHAPTER ------------------------------ 1. SSH into a production Linux server (SSH, key-based auth, jump hosts — Chapters 2-3). 2. Reaching a Windows server's GUI to run a diagnostic tool (RDP/VNC — Chapter 4). 3. Helping a confused end user on their own laptop (screen-sharing software — Chapter 5). WHY THEY'RE GENUINELY DIFFERENT, NOT JUST THREE EXAMPLES OF ONE TASK ------------------------------ Per this chapter, they involve "genuinely different tools, genuinely different trust models, genuinely different risks." Each uses an entirely different underlying technology (SSH vs. RDP/VNC vs. screen-sharing software), not just a different application of the same mechanism. THE TRUST-MODEL DIFFERENCE SPECIFICALLY ------------------------------ SSH access to a production server and RDP to a Windows server are both about a support engineer connecting to infrastructure they're authorized to administer or diagnose - the "user" of that system is effectively the system itself. Screen sharing with an end user is categorically different: there's an actual person present, watching and potentially still using their own machine during the session, which is why this chapter positions it as needing "a different trust model" (previewed for Chapter 5) rather than treating it as just another remote-access mechanism like the other two. WHY THIS DISTINCTION MATTERS FOR THE COURSE'S OWN STRUCTURE ------------------------------ Per this chapter, "the capstone applies all three to fresh scenarios of their own, mirroring this course's own three-part structure directly." Because the three scenarios are genuinely distinct rather than variations on one theme, the course (and its capstone) is structured around covering each one on its own terms, rather than treating one as representative of all three. WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ It names all three scenarios accurately with their respective tools, and explains specifically why they differ (different underlying technology and, for the third, a genuinely different trust model involving an actual person) rather than treating the distinction as superficial.