TN-5125: Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services

 

Course Overview:

This course gives students the knowledge and skills to configure Active Directory Domain Services in a distributed environment, implement Group Policies, perform backup and restore, and monitor and troubleshoot Active Directory related issues.  This course includes material contained in Microsoft’s 6424, 6425, 6426 and is an aid to preparation for the 70-640 exam.

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Dates/Locations:

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Duration: 5 Days

Course Objectives:

  • Installation
  • Administration
  • Users
  • Groups
  • Computers
  • Group Policy Infrastructure
  • Group Policy Settings
  • Domains and Forests

Prerequisites:

  • Basic understanding of networking
  • Intermediate understanding of network operating system
  • An awareness of security best practices
  • Basic knowledge of server hardware
  • A+ or equivalent knowledge
  • Some experience creating objects in Active Directory
  • Basic concepts of backup and recovery in a Windows Server Environment

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PM-222: Agile Principles using SCRUM Approach

 

Course Overview: 

This class uses a sample product development initiative to illustrate the course principles.  If you need to learn what is required to lead or participate in an Agile effort using the SCRUM approach within your organization, this course will cover the Agile adaptive life cycle framework and all of the ceremonies, artifacts, and roles.

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Duration: 2 Days

Course Objectives: At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Compare the Agile (adaptive) and Plan Driven (predictive/ waterfall) approaches
  • Understand the Agile Manifesto and SCRUM Framework
  • Apply the basics of Agile / SCRUM Team Organization, with importance of the Development Team responsibilities
  • Use Agile / SCRUM chartering, high-level estimating, and prioritization techniques to initiate a Product Roadmap and a Product Backlog
  • Create personas and user stories to lead to Development Team task assignments
  • Understand Release and Sprint Planning to lead to the Sprint Backlog
  • Plan and conduct a sample SCRUM Sprint from the Vision Statement through the Sprint retrospective

 

Target Student:

  • Designed specifically for Agile project team members, product owners, project leaders and senior managers or anyone wanting to understand the Agile Framework.

 

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P-315: Intermediate PERL Programming

 

Course Overview:

PERL programmers need a clear roadmap for improving their skills. Intermediate PERL teaches a working knowledge of PERL's objects, references, and modules — all of which makes the language so versatile and effective. This class offers a thorough introduction to intermediate programming in PERL. Topics include packages and namespaces, references and scoping, manipulating complex data structures, writing and using modules, package implementation, and using CPAN.

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Dates/Locations:

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Duration: 5 Days

Course Objectives:

  • Packages and namespaces
  • References and scoping
  • Manipulating complex data structures
  • Object-oriented programming
  • Writing and using modules
  • Testing PERL code
  • Contributing to CPAN

Prerequisites:

 

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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:

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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.