DO-375: Automation with Ansible and Ansible Tower

Course Overview:

Through hands-on labs, you will learn to automate system administration tasks on managed hosts with Ansible, learn how to write Ansible playbooks to standardize task execution, and manage encryption for Ansible with Ansible Vault. This course will also teach you how to deploy and use Red Hat® Ansible Tower to centrally manage existing Ansible projects, playbooks, and roles; perform basic maintenance and administration of the Ansible Tower installation; and configure users and teams and use them to control access to systems, projects, and other resources through role-based access controls. You will learn to use Ansible Tower’s visual dashboard to launch, control, and monitor Ansible jobs; use the Ansible Tower application programming interface (API) to launch jobs from existing templates; automatically schedule Ansible jobs; and dynamically update host inventories.

Course Objectives:

Install and troubleshoot Ansible on central nodes and managed hosts
Automate administration tasks with Ansible playbooks and ad hoc commands
Write effective Ansible playbooks
Protect sensitive data used by tasks with Ansible Vault.
Install and configure Ansible Tower for enterprise Ansible management
Use Ansible Tower to control access to inventories and machine credentials by users and teams
Create job templates in Ansible Tower to standardize playbook execution.
Centrally launch playbooks and monitor and review job results with Ansible Tower

Course Outline:

Introduce Ansible
Deploy Ansible
Implement playbooks
Manage variables and inclusions
Implement task control
Implement Jinja2 templates
Implement roles
Configure complex playbooks
Implement Ansible Vault
Troubleshoot Ansible
Install Ansible Tower and describe Ansible Tower’s architecture
Create users and teams for role-based access control
Create and manage inventories and credentials
Manage projects for provisioning with Ansible Tower
Construct advanced job workflows
Update inventories dynamically and compare inventory members
Maintenance and administration of Ansible Tower

Dates/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 5 Days

Prerequisites:

Become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator, or demonstrate equivalent experience

Target Audience:

This course is designed for Linux system administrators, cloud administrators, and network administrators needing to automate configuration management, application deployment, and intraservice orchestration at an enterprise scale.

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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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TN-909: Windows Forensic Analysis

Course Overview:

Windows Forensic Analysis is a hands-on course that covers digital forensics of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The collection and analysis of data tracking user based activity that can be used for internal purposes or legal litigation. TechNow has the student analyze many data images for various Windows operating systems, as current as Windows 8.1, Windows 10 in an environment that uses many Cloud technologies such as Office365, Skydrive, Sharepoint, Exchange Online, and Windows Phone.

This is not death by power point. The course is aligned with digital forensic investigators and executing hands-on labs. Lecture and labs walk the student through the knowledge required to truly understand the mechanics of Windows Forensic Analysis.

Attendees to TN-909: Windows Forensic Analysis will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Date/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

Windows Operating System Components
Core Forensic Principles
Live Response and Triage-Based Acquisition Techniques
Windows Image Mounting and Examination
Memory, Pagefile, Filesystems
Data and Metadata
Profiling systems and users
Tracking USB and BYOD
Log and Registry Analysis
User Communications
Email Forensics
Browser Forensics
Reporting and Presentation

Course Prerequisites:

Windows and Security Experience

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L-295: Linux System Administration II

Course Overview:

In this course students will learn to configure the Linux kernel, install & configure modules, to install and configure non-default devices and automate installation with Kickstart. Students also utilize skills developed in L-245 to expand on file system configuration with spanning devices and RAID. This is the foremost server side Linux course in the industry covering all server side components such as DHCP, Samba, NIS, LDAP, inet, telnet ftp, dns, etc. Expanding on security introduced in L-245: Linux System Administration I, TCP wrappers, firewalling with IP filters, SQUID, & ssh are covered.

Attendees to L-295: Linux System Administration II will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 5 Days

Course Objectives:

Custom installation of a Linux server
Linux device naming conventions & the boot process
Adding peripheral devices
Reconfiguring the kernel
Disk partitioning & formatting
Changing system run levels
Adding startup files for additional services
Adding & removing software packages
Disk & file system Administration
Terminals & modem configuration
Configuring NFS to support the client/server environment
Use the automounter
Server side components such as DHCP, Samba, NIS, LDAP, inet, telnet, ftp, DNS, etc.
Troubleshooting techniques
Advanced Linux installation

Prerequisites:

L-245: Linux System Administration I plus six months experience as a systems administrator or one year or more of administrating the Linux operating system.

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