Observations of Instructor Led Training with Real Hardware

TechNow has heard many students talk about virtualized/remote training that TechNow Does Not Do. While training our most recent offering of PA-215: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Essentials FastTrack a student told his story of how he endend up in our course. His story we have heard for other technologies like Cisco, VMware, BlueCoat and other products.

A large percentage of training is moving to the virtualized/remote lab environments. Students are asked to use some variant of remote access software and remote into the training company's lab environment. Our student in our Palo Alto Networks Firewall course informed us that he went to a very costly offering of that course from the vendor and was not able to perform any labs. There were either network connectivity issues, or issues with the remote access software, or other problems. The whole training experience was very frustrating and not productive.

We keep our labs open to students if they would like after hours, or before hours access. Repeatedly going through a lab engrains that knowledge for later recall. Touching hardware is so critical in understanding the problems that arise when a cable comes loose, or a cable gets plugged in the wrong port. There are other scenarios such as just pulling the power cable, or turning off a power strip, or accidently overwriting a configuration. These disaster scenarious requires hands-on physical access to hardware. Preventing and recovering from disasters is what it's all about, and that requires hands-on, instructor led, real hardware.

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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-5002: Introduction to SQL Databases

Course Overview:

The introduction to SQL Databases training course is designed to train the learners on the fundamentals of database concepts. You will not only learn about the different types of databases, the languages and designs as well as describe important database concepts using SQL Server 2016. Anyone who is moving into a database role will benefit from taking this course.

Attendees to MS-5002: Introduction to SQL Databases will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Date/Locations:

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Course Duration: 2 days

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TN-512: Essential Business Analysis Course

Course Overview:

This course covers the key elements required to understand and apply business analysis techniques in an IT-centric business environment. It identifies key best practices to deal with the challenges of eliciting, analyzing, and specifying project requirements. The key material in each section of this course is reinforced with a student driven lab scenario allowing each participant hands-on practice with the key business analysis concepts that are introduced in this course. At the end of the focused sections on business analysis techniques, the students will engage in a student-driven business analysis case study blending all the learned techniques into a finished product. This course is approximately 60% lecture and 40% lab time.

Attendees to TN-512: Essential Business Analysis Course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 5 Days

Course Objectives:

Overview of Business Analysis Workshop
Eliciting Project Workshop
Case Study
Analyzing Requirements and Writing Case Studies
Case Study