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.
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:
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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
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Course Overview:
This two-day course will provide foundational level knowledge on cloud concepts; core Azure services; security, privacy, compliance, and trust; and Azure pricing and support.
NOTE: This course provides an Azure pass and time for you to participate in hands-on labs. The content for this course aligns to AZ-900 exam objective domain
TechNow has worked worldwide enterprise infrastructures for over 20 years and has developed demos and labs to exemplify the techniques required to demonstrate cloud technologies and to effectively manage security in the cloud environment
Attendees to AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Date/Locations:
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01/20/2026 - 01/23/2026 08:00 -16:00 |
AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX |
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04/07/2026 - 04/08/2026 08:00 -16:00 |
AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX |
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08/03/2026 - 08/04/2026 08:00 -16:00 |
AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX |
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11/09/2026 - 11/10/2026 08:00 -16:00 |
AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX |
Course Duration: 3 days
Course Outline:
- Cloud Concepts
- Core Azure Services
- Security, Privacy, Compliance, And Trust
- Azure Pricing and Support
Lab Objectives:
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- Create a virtual machine
- Deploy Azure container instances
- Create a virtual network
- Create blob storage
- Create a SQL database
- Implement an Azure IoT Hub
- Implement Azure Functions
- Create a web app
- Create a VM with a Template
- Create a VM with PowerShell
- Create a VM with CLI
- Secure network traffic
- Implement Azure key vault
- Create an Azure Policy
- Manage access with RBAC
- Manage resource locks
- Implement resource tagging
- Exploring the Trust Center
- Use the Azure Pricing Calculator
- Use the Azure TCO Calculator
- Open a Support request
- Calculate composite SLAs
- Access Azure Preview features
Prerequisites :
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- There are no prerequisites for taking this course. Technical IT experience is not required however some general IT knowledge or experience would be beneficial.
- This course is suitable for IT personnel who are just beginning to work with Azure.
- This course primarily uses the Azure portal to create services and does not require scripting skills.
- Students in this course will gain confidence to take other role-based courses and certifications, such as Azure Administrator.
- This course provides an Azure pass and optional lab environment.
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Course Overview:
This course covers the knowledge and skills required to understand standard Cloud terminologies/methodologies, to implement, maintain, and deliver cloud technologies and infrastructures (e.g. server, network, storage, and virtualization technologies), and to understand aspects of IT security and use of industry best practices related to cloud implementations and the application of virtualization.
TechNow has worked worldwide enterprise infrastructures for over 20 years and has developed demos and labs to exemplify the techniques required to demonstrate cloud technologies and to effectively manage security in the cloud environment.
TechNow is a CompTIA partner and uses official CompTIA Cloud+ curriculum.
Attendees to CT-215: Cloud+ will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Date/Locations:
| Date/Time | Event |
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04/06/2026 - 04/10/2026 08:00 -16:00 |
CT-215: Cloud+ TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX |
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07/27/2026 - 07/31/2026 08:00 -16:00 |
CT-215: Cloud+ TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX |
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10/19/2026 - 10/23/2026 08:00 -16:00 |
CT-215: Cloud+ TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX |
Course Duration: 5 days
Course Objectives:
- Prepare to deploy cloud solutions
- Deploy a pilot project
- Test a pilot project deployment
- Design a secure network for cloud deployment
- Determine CPU and memory sizing for cloud deployments
- Plan Identity and Access Management for cloud deployments
- Analyze workload characteristics to ensure successful migration to the cloud
- Secure systems to meet access requirements
- Maintain cloud systems
- Implement backup, restore, and business continuity measures
- Analyze cloud systems for required performance
- Analyze cloud systems for anomalies and growth forecasting
- Troubleshoot deployment, capacity, automation, and orchestration issues
- Troubleshoot connectivity issues
- Troubleshoot security issues
Course Prerequisites:
- Security+, Network+, CASP or equivalent experience
- Managing or administering at least one of UNIX, Windows, Databases, networking, or security
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