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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:

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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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TN-223: Advanced Shell Programming

 

Course Overview:

The course teaches students to use the sort, grep, sed, & awk utilities within Unix. Systems administrators, Unix users, & programmers benefit from the course showing them how to use the command line applications of sort, grep, sed, & awk commands as well as using sed & awk scripts that develop the users skills with the full power of these utilities.

Attendees to TN-223: Advanced Shell Programming will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

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Duration: 3 Days

Course Objectives:

  • Sorting files by line or field
  • Regular Expressions (meta character) with grep commands to locate specific lines in files
  • 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)
  • Grep, egrep extended metacharacters, combinations-lab advanced combinations- lab Sed
  • Basic commands- Lab, Advanced commands- Lab, Advanced scripting -Lab
  • Miscellaneous commands Tr, sort, cut, paste, pr -Lab

Prerequisites:

  • TN-125: Introduction to UNIX & Linux
  • TN 215: Shell Programming.
  • Students should have a basic knowledge of UNIX commands including rm, cp, man, cat, & mkdir. Navigating directory structure using commands such as ls, cp, & pwd. Creating and editing files with the vi editor or text editor. Use of basic programming constructs, & commands such as variables & loops & how to write a simple program in a programming language.

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MS-6231: Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server Database

 

Course Overview:

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to maintain a Microsoft SQL Server database. The course focuses on teaching individuals how to use SQL Server product features and tools related to maintaining a database.

Attendees to MS-6231: Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server Database will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

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Duration: 5 Days

Course Objectives:

  • Installing and Configuring SQL Server
  • Managing Databases and Files
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Managing Security
  • Transferring Data
  • Automating Administrative Tasks
  • Implementation Replication
  • Maintaining High Availability
  • Monitoring SQL Server
  • Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning

Prerequisites:

  • None

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Instructor comments: Clay was knowledgeable instructor with enough experience to make subject matter relatable to real world usage.

 

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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:

Date/Time Event
03/18/2025 - 03/20/2025
08:00 -16:00 		CT-213: Cloud Essentials+
TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
06/09/2025 - 06/11/2025
08:00 -16:00 		CT-213: Cloud Essentials+
TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
10/14/2025 - 10/16/2025
08:00 -16:00 		CT-213: Cloud Essentials+
TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX

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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