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Course Overview:
CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ is for both IT and non-technical professionals who require the essential business acumen needed to make informed cloud service decisions. Cloud Essentials is a vendor-neutral credential designed to validate the candidate has an understanding of basic terms and definitions of cloud computing along with the different processes involved in the successful adoption of cloud computing and its implications for organizations’ use.
TechNow is a CompTIA partner and uses official CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ curriculum.
Attendees to CT-213: Cloud Essentials+ will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Date/Locations:
Course Duration: 3 days
Course Objectives:
- Domain 1 : Cloud Concepts
- Understand cloud principles
- Identify cloud networking concepts & storage techniques
- Understand cloud design aspects
- Domain 2: Business Principles of Cloud Environments
- Identify and employ appropriate cloud assessments like feasibility studies, benchmarking, or gap analysis
- Highlight key business aspects of cloud vendor relation adoption, and comprehend cloud migration approaches
- Domain 3: Management and Technical Operations
- Explain aspects of operating within the cloud, such as data management or optimization
- Understand the role of DevOps in cloud environments, like API integration or provisioning
- Domain 4: Governance, Risk, Compliance and Security for the Cloud
- Understand risk management and response concepts related to cloud services and identify the importance and impacts of compliance in the cloud, such as regulatory concerns or international standards.
Course Prerequisites:
- CompTIA recommends that a candidate have at least 6 months of experience in an IT environment, with direct involvement in IT-related tasks responsibilities and/or decision making.
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Course Overview:
This course identifies how business analysts can elicit Agile requirements by writing user stories from use cases and personas of customer profiles. This leads to the processes of confirming the validity and usability for quality of the product development. An Agile Business Analyst has become a new recognized role within the other Agile Framework roles.
Attendees to PM-242:Defining Agile Requirements with User Stories will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
Duration: 2 Days
Course Objectives: At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the Scrum Flow, the core components of the Scrum framework
- Understand the scope of the Product Owner role in detail
- Understand the scope of the Agile Business Analysis role in coordination with the Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development Team
- Understand the scope of the Scrum Master role at a high level
- Understand the scope of the Scrum Development Team roles
- Document the interactions between the user of a system and the system itself
- Dive into understanding the Agile principles for requirements using user stories in a card, conversation, and confirmation format
Target Student:
- Designed specifically for Agile project team members, product owners, project leaders and business analysts or anyone wanting to understand the Agile Framework.
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Course Overview:
In this course students will learn to install the Linux™ operating system, to administer users and software, to use vi, basic Linux security, process control, file system maintenance, backup and recovery, including some basic networking concepts. This course insures that students have the skills to configure all desktop and client side related activity.
Attendees to L-245: Linux System Administration I will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
Duration: 5 days
Course Objectives:
- Linux operating system installation
- Hardware Issues
- LILO & GRUB Configuration
- Managing the Linux file system
- Boot Process
- Customization of setup files
- System Startup
- Run Levels
- Network Services
- User Management
- Changing Passwords
- Monitoring, accessing & restricting root system access
- Administration Tools
- Disk Management
- Quotas
- Process Control
- Installing & removing software & patches
- Network Configuration
- Client side components of NFS, Samba, NTP, NIS
- Printing
- Backup and Recovery
- Using utilities for process control, locating files & automating maintenance tasks
Prerequisites:
- Students should have an understanding of all basic UNIX commands as well as variable substitution, wild card expansion, command pipes, permissions, the grep and find commands.
- These prerequisites can be met through completion of TN-125: Introduction to UNIX & Linux and six month’s experience with Linux.
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Instructor comments: Very Good Instructor (Bill Peterson)
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Course Overview:
This course explores the VMware Infrastructure, which consists of VMware ESX Server & VMware Virtual Center Server. We will look at both the design environments and operational processes of the VMware Infrastructure. This course provides IT architects with the insight needed to tackle tough issues in server virtualization such as virtual machine technologies, storage infrastructure, and designing clustered environments. Extensive hands-on labs provide for a rich student experience.
Attendees to VM-315: VMware Infrastructure: Install, Configure, and Manage will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
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03/16/2026 - 03/20/2026
08:00 -16:00
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VM-315: VMware Infrastructure: Install, Configure, and Manage
TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
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06/22/2026 - 06/26/2026
08:00 -16:00
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VM-315: VMware Infrastructure: Install, Configure, and Manage
TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
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09/28/2026 - 10/02/2026
08:00 -16:00
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VM-315: VMware Infrastructure: Install, Configure, and Manage
TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
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Duration: 5 Days
Course Objectives:
- Virtual Infrastructure Overview
- ESX and ESXi Server Installation
- Configuration of Networking, Scalability and Security
- Storage
- Install and Configure vCenter Server and Components
- Creation, Deployment, Management, and Migration of Virtual Machines
- Utilize vCenter Server for Resource Management
- Utilize vCenter Server for Virtual Machine Access Control and User Managment
- Use vCenter Server to increase scalability
- Monitoring Your Environment
- Data & Availability Protection Troubleshooting
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Use VMware vCenter Update Manager to apply ESXi patches
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Use vCenter Server to manage vMotion, HA, DRS and data protection.
Prerequisites:
- To ensure your success, system administration experience on Microsoft or Linux operating systems is required.
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Instructor comments: The instructor was nice and kept us entertained while providing instruction.
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User: asteeves@aol.com
Instructor comments: knowledgeable but can get off subject at times
Facilities comments: good
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