PM-223: Introduction to Project Management

Course Overview:

With tight pressure to cut costs & yet implement technology quickly, IT project managers are under severe pressure to complete projects on time, on budget, & at the promised quality.  Yet industry figures consistently show that 90 percent of major IT project initiatives fail to be complete both on time and on budget.  This course delves into the unique challenges of managing IT projects, and offers a roadmap to success.

PM-223 offers new Project Managers the best start into the Project Management field.  This course is intended to offer the new Project Manager a practical introduction to Project Management.  If you are new to Project Management and are looking for a first step on your way to the Project Manager Professional certification, then this is the course for you.

Attendees to PM-223: Introduction to Project Management will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

Date/Time Event
01/13/2025 - 01/15/2025
08:00 -16:00 		PM-223: Introduction to Project Management
TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
04/14/2025 - 04/16/2025
08:00 -16:00 		PM-223: Introduction to Project Management
TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
07/14/2025 - 07/16/2025
08:00 -16:00 		PM-223: Introduction to Project Management
TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX

Duration: 3 Days

Course Objectives:

  • The 5 Process Groups
  • Building a WBS
  • Estimating work
  • Budgets
  • Practical Leadership
  • Ending a Project

Prerequisites:

  • None

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L-395: Accelerated Linux Administration and Utilities

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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TN-5315: Configuring Windows Devices

 

Course Overview:
This five-day instructor-led course provides IT professionals with the knowledge and skills required to deploy and manage Windows 10 desktops, devices, and applications in an enterprise environment. Students will learn how to plan and implement Windows 10 deployments in large organizations. Students will also learn how to manage the Windows 10 installations after deployment to provide secure identity and data access by using technologies related to User Experience Virtualization (UE-V), Group Policy, Work Folders and Client Hyper-V. To support a variety of device and data management solutions, Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Store for Business and Office 365 are used for device management. These services are part of the Enterprise Mobility+ Security, which provides identity and access management, cloud-based device management, application and update management, and more secure data access to information stored both on the cloud and onsite within your corporate network.

Attendees to TN-5315: Configuring Windows Devices will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 5 Days

Course Objectives:

  • Manage Identity
  • Plan Desktop and Device Deployment
  • Plan and Implement a Microsoft 365 Solution
  • Configure Networking
  • Configure Storage
  • Manage Data Access and Protection
  • Manage Remote Access
  • Manage Apps
  • Manage Updates and Recovery

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CT-213: Cloud Essentials+

 

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:

No Events

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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PM-242: Defining Agile Requirements with User Stories

 

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:

No Events

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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