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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User: marcus.resendez

Instructor comments: Extremely well versed with pertinent course information. Outstanding instructor!

Facilities comments: Nice

User: mendezm

Instructor comments: Instructor was extremely knowledgeable on the subject.

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C-215: Introduction to C Programming

Course Overview:

The C-215: Introduction to C Programming course is a hands-on course providing a complete introduction to the ANSI C programming language, focusing on quickly developing the practical skills needed to create real-world solutions. Our hands-on labs are designed to promote retention and challenge students to apply their skills to new situations.

Attendees to C-215: Introduction to C Programming will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

What is C?
Basics of Program Writing
Style
Basic Declarations & Expressions
Arrays, Qualifiers & Reading Numbers
Decision & Control Statements
Programming Process
More Controls Statements
Variable Scope & Functions
C Preprocessor
Bit Operations
Advanced Types
Simple Pointers
File Input/Output
Debugging & Optimization
Floating Point

Prerequisites:

Before attending this course, you should be able to use basic UNIX commands and have previous programming experience language, or have taken our Introduction to Computer Progamming class.

Comments

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User: jangles1337

Instructor comments: Pretty knowledgeable on a number of things. Could have had a better in depth understanding of the material.

Facilities comments: Was a hotel so it was pretty noisy some times.

User: ldorsey

Instructor comments: Great guy full of knowledge

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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

Comments

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User: mikenaya

Instructor comments: As usual, Dave was excellent and the content was very relevant to our line of work.

Facilities comments: The hotel facilities met our basic needs but it was awkward having a bathroom so close. I can't wait for the new facility to open.

User: fquinene

Instructor comments: Instructor was super knowledgeable and helped me tie in a lot of information from other OS and processes.

Facilities comments: Facility was fine

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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.

MS-10175: Developing & Customizing Applications for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 & 2013

Course Overview:

TechNow’s Course provides existing .NET developers with practical information and labs that enables them to build solutions on the Microsoft SharePoint 2010/2013 platform.

Attendees to MS-10175: Developing & Customizing Applications for Microsoft SharePoint 2010/2013 will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Date/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

Introduction to SharePoint 2010/2013 Development Platform
Using SharePoint 2010/2013 Developer Tools
Developing SharePoint 2010/2013 Web Parts
Working with SharePoint Objects on the Server
Creating Event Receivers and Application Settings
Developing Solutions by Using Business Connectivity Services
Developing SharePoint 2010/2013 Workflows
Working with Client-based APIs for SharePoint 2010/2013
Developing Interactive User Interfaces
Developing Silverlight Applications for SharePoint
Developing Sandboxed Solutions
Working with SharePoint Server Profiles and Taxonomy APIs
Developing Content Management Solutions

Prerequisites:

An understanding of the problem-solving techniques that apply to software development
Approximately 12 months experience with ASP .NET 3.5 with Visual Studio 2008 (or later)
Approximately 1 month development experience with SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010/2013 and VS2010/2013 (includes beta releases) creating code that interacts with the SharePoint Sever-side APIs
Experience performing end user tasks with SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010/2013 and an understanding of the purpose and use of the following:
- Lists
- Documents and Libraries
- Personalizing an SP Page/Site
- Using MySites
- Using SharePoint Designer

Comments

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User: kelleyd10

Instructor comments: Clay was / is an outstanding instructor. He was very flexible in what the class needed. He was very accommodating and resourceful in answering the class questions. Clay's teaching style is greatly appreciated.

Facilities comments: Were good

User: dennij

Instructor comments: Very professional and knowledgeable. Available before and after class.

Facilities comments: Location was nice but too far from Lackland.