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:
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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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Course Overview:
Course two of a three course series to obtain a Server 2016 MCSA certification. This 5-day course provides the fundamental networking skills required to deploy and support Windows Server 2016 in most organizations. It covers IP fundamentals, remote access technologies, and more advanced content including Software Defined Networking.
The course leads directly to preparing for the(MCSA):Windows Server 2016 exam “70-741: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016”. It also maps to Microsoft’s course 20741A, and is part of the Server 2016 MCSA certification.
Attendees to TN-5425: Networking with Window Server 2016 will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
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Duration: 5 Days
Course Objectives:
- Plan and implement an IPv4 network
- Implement Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- Implement IPv6
- Implement Domain Name System (DNS)
- Implement and manage IP address management (IPAM)
- Plan for remote access
- Implement DirectAccess
- Implement virtual private networks (VPNs)
- Implement networking for branch offices
- Configure advanced networking features
- Implement Software Defined Networking
Prerequisites:
- A basic understanding of networking fundamentals
- Experience working with Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2012
- Experience working in a Windows Server infrastructure enterprise environment
- Knowledge of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model
- Understanding of core networking topologies and architectures such as local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs) and wireless networking
- Basic knowledge of the TCP/IP protocol stack, addressing and name resolution
- Experience with and knowledge of Hyper-V and virtualization
- Hands-on experience working with the Windows client operating systems such as Windows 8.1 or Windows 10
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Course Overview:
ITIL Version 4 is divided into 5 areas: Continual Service Improvement; Service Strategy; Service Design; Service Transition; and Service Operation. These 5 areas support the overall focus of ITIL’s service management through the Service Life cycle. IT-113: IT Infrastructure LIbrary (ITIL)- Foundations Course provides a detailed introduction of terms, definitions, benefits, and relationships of the following function and processes as well as roles and responsibilities that supports them.
Attendees to IT-113: IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) – Foundations Course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
| Date/Time | Event |
|---|---|
|
12/08/2025 - 12/11/2025 08:00 -16:00 |
IT-113: IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v4 – Foundations Course TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX |
Duration: 3 Days
Course Objectives:
- Service Desk
- Incident Management
- Problem Management
- Configuration Management
- Financial Management for IT
- IT Service Continuity Management
- Service Level Management
- Change Management
- Release Management
- Capacity Management
- Availability Management
Prerequisites:
- Students should have some experience with the specification, development, installation and/or management of information technology.
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Course Overview:
Course one of a three course series to obtain a Server 2016 MCSA certification. This five-day course is designed primarily for IT professionals who have some experience with Windows Server. It is designed for professionals who will be responsible for managing storage and compute by using Windows Server 2016, and who need to understand the scenarios, requirements, and storage and compute options that are available and applicable to Windows Server 2016.
The course leads directly to preparing for the(MCSA):Windows Server 2016 exam “70-740: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016”. It also maps to Microsoft’s course 20740A, and is part of the Server 2016 MCSA certification.
Attendees to TN-5415: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Window Server 2016 will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
No Events
Duration: 5 Days
Course Objectives:
- Prepare and install Nano Server, a Server Core installation, and plan a server upgrade and migration strategy
- Describe the various storage options, including partition table formats, basic and dynamic disks, file systems, virtual hard disks, and drive hardware, and explain how to manage disks and volumes
- Describe enterprise storage solutions, and select the appropriate solution for a given situation
- Implement and manage Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication
- Install and configure, and manage Windows and Hyper-V containers
- Describe the high availability and disaster recovery technologies in Windows Server 2016
- Plan, create, and manage a failover cluster
- Implement failover clustering for Hyper-V virtual machines
- Configure a Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster, and plan for an NLB implementation
- Create and manage deployment images
- Manage, monitor, and maintain virtual machine installations
Prerequisites:
- A basic understanding of networking fundamentals
- An awareness and understanding of security best practices
- An understanding of basic AD DS concepts
- Basic knowledge of server hardware
- Experience supporting and configuring Windows client operating systems such as Windows 10
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