2. Cyber Centurion V
An Install Guide

3. How does it work?
After registration you will receive an from Steph.
The teams install the software on their computers.
Each round, the team works through a number of different operating systems (OS) to find and fix problems with them. Each OS is stored as a virtual machine.
A virtual machine (VM) is an OS that is installed on software inside your own OS. In Cyber Centurion, each VM is a simulation or imitation of a real computer. The end user has the same experience on a virtual machine as they would have on dedicated hardware.
Why we are here:
s – lots of information, useful but confusing especially if you are unfamiliar with the terminology.
When you sign up a team you will receive an .
Teams working together with adult overseeing them, we want the young people to find their own solutions, your role is to facilitate in setting up the environment for them to learn
However set up works – depending on your facilities, let them work it out, its about team work, delegation, leadership. We find the best teams are those who work together and figure out their own strengths.
Some of you are more technical than others – this presentation ill assume a low level of technical knowledge, I am not a technical person, but using these steps I can easily get set up to start the practice rounds
The point of the exercise is to experience different operating systems. The teams have to work through a briefing which tells them how the OS should eb set up if its working correctly. tHis like: permissions, user privileges, allowed/disallowed media etc. Its up to the team to review the OS and find where errors have been made – its up to them to fix these as they go along. Each tiem they fix these, or get something right, a reward sound will play and their points will increase.
Obviously we don’t want them to install entirely new OS every time they use their computer so what we use instead are VMs.
A VM is a simulated environment which allows you to run the OS to practice and make mistakes without risking your computer. And cruitially, they get the same experience as if they were using the real computer.

4. Why so much software?
Some school-age cyber competitions remove the requirement for specialist software and tools, so the pupils can go straight into playing the game or activity, often in a browser (CSCUK do this themselves on some other competitions!)
Cyber Centurion requires the teams to properly set up their competition environments themselves.
There are 4/ 5 pieces of software involved in this before you get the images – they are all useful tools to help you, and you need them to compete the competition.
Cyber Centurion requires the teams to properly set up their competition environments themselves.
This is an important skill for them to develop, and provides a much richer experience as they have to configure and use different software and tools. This provides valuable skills for their future employment, it also provides experience using real tools.

5. Installing the software
Building the environment

6. What Operating System do you have?
Is it 64 bit or 32 bit?
In Windows 10 you can find it easily: -
Search bar at bottom > “About your PC” > System Type
Google has easy guides for this depending on your own OS
First things first,
Last year we CC 4 was the first to use 64bit images, as more and more competitors are using 64 bit. We are aware some will still be using 32 – this will be fine, but if you do have any issues, please speak to Steph
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7. Enable Virtualisation
Most vendors sell their computers with Virtualisation Technology (VT) disabled as a general security precaution.
We need to switch it on so the VM software works, this is done by accessing the BIOS
If you are unsure of how to access the BIOS settings, theres a video/ article or you can google it.
Video guide here -
Article guide here -

8. Download Uncompressing Software
Select the right exe for your OS, download it, run it to install
A lot of files that are downloaded nowadays are large and can be comprised of many separate files.
These files will arrive zipped,
We need to be able to unzip (extract) these files easily when we receive and download them
For CC we will use 7 zip
Other unzip such as win zip will also work

9. Download CheckSum Software
Sometimes when downloading files, some bits of the data can get lost on the way. In order to ensure we download the whole file completely and correctly, we need to check it is all there.
We can do this by using a Check Sum.
WinMD5 Freeware Download
Unzip the folder (right click and Extract All). This creates an unzipped folder here with the program in it
Popoadom analogy – this is to make sure you’ve got all of the right files – in their entirety, on the day
Once ‘the environment’ is all set up with various software installed you’re ready for all three rounds and the main competition,
Each round you will download a set of images. We need to make sure these have downloaded properly, because I don’t know what its like here, but where I live we’ve got bad internet – so its worth checking
Example of check sum – as a noob this will show how easy it is…..

10. Install the Virtual Machine Software
We now need to download software in order to run our VMs in
All four pieces of software are in the you will receive, if you already have VM ware on your PC just make sure it is up to date.

11. Can you connect to the Scoring System?
In order for a team to register their scores, they need to check their computers are connected to the CyberPatriot Competition System (CCS)
onnection-6.1.zip
Unzip it when it has downloaded and run it!
This is used to check network connections to the scoring server before using a VM image
Last but not least, this final piece of software helps you to check that your computer (s) can communicate to the scoring system in the US

12. Installing the VM Images

13. Download the VM Images
You will be sent an with your team name and codes
There will also be a download link for the various images for that specific round
These links will be in your attachement and will look something like this
Once you have downloaded them all, you need to use WinMD5 to check the file against the CheckSum provided
If it matches, you can then unzip (extract) them, using the password provided in the when prompted
If the checksum doesn’t match, then you need to redownload the image

14. Install the VM images Open up VMware Workstation Player
Click “Open a Virtual Machine”
Navigate to where you have extracted the first VM image and select it
This should then appear on the VM image list and can then be used
Repeat this step for each VM image required in this specific round
Here’s what one of the images looks like, I’m not going to go through it now as these are live & I want you to have a go yourself. But this is what you can expect to see. Have a look at our mini game on
the tablets for a little play.

15. Any Questions?

16. Cybergamesuk.com/Centurion

17. Handy Terminology Sheet
VM = Virtual Machine
OS = Operating System
VT = Virtualisation Technology
CheckSum = Digit to check files are downloaded fully
Zip / Unzip = Compress / Uncompress files
Extract = Another word for UnZipping