Here are the Cisco Security course offerings:
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:
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.
Course Overview:
This course teaches students how to use the powerful PERL programming language, focusing on hands-on labs to promote retention & challenge students to apply their skills to new situations. PERL is a flexible, easy to use language suitable for many tasks such as system administration, web applications & database integration. System administrators, web programmers & database administrators will benefit from mastering this powerful programming language. This course reviews & builds on the information presented in PL-115: Fundamentals of Computer Programming.
Attendees to P-245: Programming with PERL will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
Course Duration: 5 days
Course Objectives:
- Introduction
- Scalar Data
- Lists & Arrays
- Subroutines
- Input & Output
- Hashes
- In the World of Regular Expressions
- Matching with Regular Expressions
- Processing Text with Regular Expressions
- More Control Structures
- File Tests
- Directory Operations
- Strings & Sorting
- Process Management
- PERL Modules
- Some Advanced PERL Techniques
Prerequisites:
- Knowledge or experience in shell, C or another programming language is a great indicator of readiness
- Students who have never programmed before should take PL-115: Fundamentals of Computer Programming before taking this class
- Students looking to master PERL programming skills will greatly benefit from this course as well as P-315: Intermediate PERL Programming
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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.
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.
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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.
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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:
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: mendezm
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