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TechNow® has been training the leaders in the computer community for many years.  We provide training for students in a number of areas.  Our cybersecurity trainings include popular courses like D0D 8140, Security , CISM, CISSP, CEH,CCNA, and more.  With over 34 years of experience, we’re able to provide you with unmatched training and certification programs.

TechNow also provides a variety of other popular trainings for the computer professional including Cisco, EC-Council, CompTIA, Unix/Linux and more.

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  • IT-113: IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v4 – Foundations Course
    • 08/04/2025 – 08/08/2025
    • San Antonio
  • PM-325: Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Preparation
    • 08/04/2025 – 08/08/2025
    • San Antonio
  • N-305: CCNA Bootcamp
    • 08/11/2025 – 08/15/2025
    • San Antonio
  • PM-224: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Prep Course
    • 08/11/2025 – 08/13/2025
    • San Antonio
  • TN-555: Certified Ethical Hacker v13 (CEH)
    • 08/11/2025 – 08/15/2025
    • San Antonio
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    Course Overview:

     

    This Python for Penetration Testing course is designed to give you the skills you need for maintaining or developing Python Penetration Testing tools oriented towards offensive operations.  We have a suite of courses and certifications that help  understand a problem, this course prepares the student to rapidly develop prototype code to attack or defend against it.

    The course concludes with a Capture the Flag event that will test both your ability to apply your new tools and coding skills in a Python Penetration Testing challenge.

    This course is not intended to be an Advanced Python course, but to exemplify penetration techniques utilizing Python.  The course covers Threading, Sockets, OOP, and third party modules that facilitate the offensive operator’s objective.

    This course utilizes the “Violent Python” text book.

    Attendees to TN-345: Python for Penetration Testers Class will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Dates/Locations:

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    Duration: 3 Days

    Course Objectives:

    • Python Lanuage Refress
    • Network Sockets
    • Exception Handling
    • Hashes and Cracking Passwords
    • Threading
      • Concepts and Python Implementation
      • Queues and Synchronization
      • urlparse and httplib to probe URLs
      • Crack a password protected zip file
    • Port Scanner
      • Threading a Port Scanner
    • nmap integration
    • Deploying shellcode
    • Mechanize, BeautifulSoup
      • HTTP Form Password Guessing
      • HTTP Proxies (Burp Suite)
      • HTTP Cookies Session Hijacking
        • CookieMonster
    • Images and Metadata
    • Justniffer
    • SQL Injection
      • sqlmap
      • SQLBrute
    • Antivirus and IDS evasion
      • PyInstaller
      • Metasploit
    • Scapy
      • Deploy shellcode
      • DNS Cache Poisoning
      • Packety Violence

    Prerequisites:

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    Course Overview:

    Course one of a three course series to obtain a Server 2016 MCSA certification. This five-day course is designed primarily for IT professionals who have some experience with Windows Server. It is designed for professionals who will be responsible for managing storage and compute by using Windows Server 2016, and who need to understand the scenarios, requirements, and storage and compute options that are available and applicable to Windows Server 2016.

    The course leads directly to preparing for the(MCSA):Windows Server 2016 exam “70-740: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016”.  It also maps to Microsoft’s course 20740A, and is part of the Server 2016 MCSA certification. 

    Attendees to TN-5415: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Window Server 2016 will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Dates/Locations:

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    Duration: 5 Days

    Course Objectives:

    • Prepare and install Nano Server, a Server Core installation, and plan a server upgrade and migration strategy
    • Describe the various storage options, including partition table formats, basic and dynamic disks, file systems, virtual hard disks, and drive hardware, and explain how to manage disks and volumes
    • Describe enterprise storage solutions, and select the appropriate solution for a given situation
    • Implement and manage Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication
    • Install and configure, and manage Windows and Hyper-V containers
    • Describe the high availability and disaster recovery technologies in Windows Server 2016
    • Plan, create, and manage a failover cluster
    • Implement failover clustering for Hyper-V virtual machines
    • Configure a Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster, and plan for an NLB implementation
    • Create and manage deployment images
    • Manage, monitor, and maintain virtual machine installations

    Prerequisites:

    • A basic understanding of networking fundamentals
    • An awareness and understanding of security best practices
    • An understanding of basic AD DS concepts
    • Basic knowledge of server hardware
    • Experience supporting and configuring Windows client operating systems such as Windows 10
      

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    Course Overview:

    AWS System Operations begins with a one day  introduction to AWS products, services, and common solutions. It provides you with fundamentals to become more proficient in identifying AWS services so that you can make informed decisions about IT solutions based on your business requirements and get started working on AWS.

    The AWS course continues to flow with teaching those in a Systems Administrator or Developer Operations (DevOps) role how to create automatable and repeatable deployments of networks and systems on the AWS platform. The course covers the specific AWS features and tools related to configuration and deployment, as well as common techniques used throughout the industry for configuring and deploying systems.

    To continue to learn more about AWS, TechNow has the following course:

    CL-425: AWS Security Operations and Architecture 

    Attendees to CL-415: AWS System Operations will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Duration: 5 Days

    Audience:
    This course is intended for:
    • System Administrators
    • Software Developers, especially those in a Developer Operations (DevOps) role

    DoD 8140: Not Mandated

    Course Prerequisites:
    We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:
    • Background in either software development or systems administration
    • Some experience with maintaining operating systems at the command line (shell scripting in Linux environments, cmd or PowerShell in Windows)
    • Basic knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP)

    Course Objectives:
    This course is designed to teach you how to:
    • Understand basic data center design concepts.
    • Recognize terminology and concepts as they relate to the AWS platform and navigate the AWS Management Console.
    • Understand the foundational infrastructure services, including Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB).
    • Understand the security measures AWS provides and key concepts of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
    • Understand AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
    • Understand AWS management tools, including Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Trusted Advisor.
    • Use standard AWS infrastructure features such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling from the command line
    • Use AWS CloudFormation and other automation technologies to produce stacks of AWS resources that can be deployed in an automated, repeatable fashion
    • Build functioning virtual private networks with Amazon VPC from the ground up using the AWS Management Console
    • Deploy Amazon EC2 instances using command line calls and troubleshoot the most common problems with instances
    • Monitor the health of Amazon EC2 instances and other AWS services
    • Manage user identity, AWS permissions, and security in the cloud
    • Manage resource consumption in an AWS account using tools such as Amazon CloudWatch, tagging, and Trusted Advisor
    • Select and implement the best strategy for creating reusable Amazon EC2 instances
    • Configure a set of Amazon EC2 instances that launch behind a load balancer, with the system scaling up and down in response to demand
    • Edit and troubleshoot a basic AWS CloudFormation stack definition

    Dates/Locations:

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    Course Outline:

    Day 1

    • Introduction and History of AWS
    • AWS Infrastructure: Compute, Storage, and Networking
    • AWS Security, Identity, and Access Management
    • AWS Databases
    • AWS Management Tools

    Day 2
    • System Operations on AWS Overview
    • Networking in the Cloud
    • Computing in the Cloud
    Day 3
    • Storage and Archiving in the Cloud
    • Monitoring in the Cloud
    • Managing Resource Consumption in the Cloud
    Day 4
    • Configuration Management in the Cloud
    • Creating Scalable Deployments in the Cloud
    • Creating Automated and Repeatable Deployments
    Day 5
    Full Day Lab
    • Select the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements
    • Execute steps required to provision cloud resources for selected deployment
    • Identify and implement data protection, encryption, and capacity planning
    • Implement and manage security policies, access controls, and role
    • Implement Automation

     

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