Course Overview:
The C-215: Introduction to C Programming course is a hands-on course providing a complete introduction to the ANSI C programming language, focusing on quickly developing the practical skills needed to create real-world solutions. Our hands-on labs are designed to promote retention and challenge students to apply their skills to new situations.
Attendees to C-215: Introduction to C Programming will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
No Events
Duration: 5 days
Course Objectives:
- What is C?
- Basics of Program Writing
- Style
- Basic Declarations & Expressions
- Arrays, Qualifiers & Reading Numbers
- Decision & Control Statements
- Programming Process
- More Controls Statements
- Variable Scope & Functions
- C Preprocessor
- Bit Operations
- Advanced Types
- Simple Pointers
- File Input/Output
- Debugging & Optimization
- Floating Point
Prerequisites:
Before attending this course, you should be able to use basic UNIX commands and have previous programming experience language, or have taken our Introduction to Computer Progamming class.
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User: jangles1337
Instructor comments: Pretty knowledgeable on a number of things. Could have had a better in depth understanding of the material.
Facilities comments: Was a hotel so it was pretty noisy some times.
User: ldorsey
Instructor comments: Great guy full of knowledge
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Course Overview:
This course is extremely fast paced and for students that have already had UNIX or Linux training, or have not worked with Linux in several months or years. This is NOT a course for students new to Linux and assumes the student requires a refresher before progressing through high end security courses that require dexterity on Linux. RedHat and Ubuntu, VMware Virtual Machines, and BackTrack are used for the instruction of this course. The student will acquire the skills to easily navigate the advanced VMware training environment and will be able to create scripts to manipulate and manage Linux. The ulimate goals of the skills of this course is to provide the student the ability to automate through scripting BackTrack tools for offensive security, forensics, and defense.
Attendees to L-395: Accelerated Linux Administration and Utilities will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Date/Locations:
No Events
Duration: 5 days
Course Objectives:
Day 1 and 2: Unix Review and Unix Utilities
- Linux File System Archictecure and In-Depth discussion of Hard and Soft Links
- Linux File, Directory, and Permissions Management
- Linux archives using tar and zip
- Interacting with BASH
- Review of Common Linux commands
- Sorting files by line or field
- Regular Expressions (meta character) with grep commands to locate specific lines in files
- Grep, egrep extended metacharacters, combinations-lab advanced combinations- lab Sed
- Basic commands- Lab, Advanced commands- Lab, Advanced scripting -Lab
- Miscellaneous commands Tr, sort, cut, past, pr -Lab
- Performing non-interactive editing tasks with the sed command
- Writing simple sed scripts to perform complex editing tasks
- Using awk variables & arrays to sort data
- Employing awk programs to manipulate numeric & textual data
- Performing formatted printing in awk
- Writing simple awk programs to write reports from data files
- Using built-in awk functions & defining new functions
- Write awk programs that make decisions based on numeric or string comparisons (branches & loops)
Day 3 – Intro to Programming / Shell Scripting
- Shell Review
- Shell Interpretation of Quotes & Backslash
- The Bash Shell
- Shell's combined with UNIX utilities
- Programming Basics
- Data Constructs
- Programming Looping
- Your Environment
- More on Parameters
Day 4 and 5 – Security Fundamentals, Linux Administration
- System Configuration / Kernel overview
- System Maintenance / Disk and file admin
- Using utilities for process control, locating files & automating maintenance tasks
- System Startup / Boot Process – LILO & GRUB Configuration
- Managing the Linux file system
- Customization of setup files
- Run Levels
- Network Services / Configuration
- User Management Monitoring, accessing & restricting root system access
- Administration Tools
- Process Control
- Client side components of NFS, Samba, NTP, NIS
- Server side components such as DHCP, Samba, NIS, LDAP, inet, telnet, ftp, DNS, etc.
Prerequisites:
- Prior UNIX/Linux experience or training
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User: mikenaya
Instructor comments: As usual, Dave was excellent and the content was very relevant to our line of work.
Facilities comments: The hotel facilities met our basic needs but it was awkward having a bathroom so close. I can't wait for the new facility to open.
User: fquinene
Instructor comments: Instructor was super knowledgeable and helped me tie in a lot of information from other OS and processes.
Facilities comments: Facility was fine
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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:
| Date/Time |
Event |
03/24/2025 - 03/28/2025
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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06/16/2025 - 06/20/2025
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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09/29/2025 - 10/03/2025
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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User: wolfdenise
Instructor comments: The instructor was nice and kept us entertained while providing instruction.
Facilities comments: The facility was nice, clean and easy to get to.
User: asteeves@aol.com
Instructor comments: knowledgeable but can get off subject at times
Facilities comments: good
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Course Overview:
This course is a project management certification that provides validation of fundamental project management skills. This course will confirm a project manager’s knowledge of the project life cycle, from initiation and planning, through execution, acceptance, support and closure. Students will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to complete projects on time and within budget, and learn common project management terminology used throughout the industry.
Attendees to CT-210: Project+ will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
| Date/Time |
Event |
02/03/2025 - 02/06/2025
08:00 -16:00
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CT-210: Project+
TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
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04/28/2025 - 05/01/2025
08:00 -16:00
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CT-210: Project+
TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
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07/21/2025 - 07/24/2025
08:00 -16:00
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CT-210: Project+
TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
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10/27/2025 - 10/30/2025
08:00 -16:00
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CT-210: Project+
TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
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Duration: 4 Days
Course Objectives:
- Project Initiation
- Project planning, estimating and scheduling.
- Creating project plans
- Managing people
- Managing cost and evaluating project performance
- Project closure
Prerequisites:
- Basic understanding of project management
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User: ChiefsLeo94
Instructor comments: Mr. Moore was very knowledgeable in the subject area and kept us on target and interested in subject area by inputting relevant stories from his project management experience.
Facilities comments: Room was adequate for the training environment just big enough for the class size and still not feel like a broom closet.
User: trosale8
Instructor comments: very knowledgeable and very supportive and empathetic. Taught us not only the content but the test-taking techniques. Instructor talks during lab/practice tests which is harder to concentrate.
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