Working with the TechNow lab for the PA-215: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Essentials FastTrack course has been nothing less than a techie's idea of fun. When students come in we are immediatly configuring the Cisco 3750 switches for access ports, VLANS, and trunks. We then cable the switch to the Palo Alto Networks Firewall. Each student gets their own Palo Alto Firewall Pod of hardware and software. What we find as fun is the VLAN environment, with an array of virtual machines hosted on an ESXi server that can really exercise the abilities of the Palo Alto Firewall. The DMZ VLAN hosts virtual machines that support enterprise services and also potentialy vulnerable web services. The Trust VLAN has Windows and Linux clients. The UnTrust VLAN has Web services and a VM of Kali. The hardware Firewall is additionally connected to a Management VLAN. All those VLANs are trunked into an ESXi server where the student also has a VM-Series Palo Alto Networks Firewall for High Availability.
After configuring all the trunking, VLANs, and network interfaces we learn about the firewall and configure it for the lab environment. Using Metasploitable and Kali/Metasploit nefarious penetration attempts are executed. Using packet captures, custom APP-ID's and custom signatures are generated. Custom logging and reporting are created to similate and enterprise and assist the desired Incident Response. It is always fun in a training environment to learn all about the controls available in a product, even though specific controls may not be used in the operational environment. In the end we have a good understanding of the Palo Alto Networks Firewall.
Course Overview:
In this course students will learn to install the Linux™ operating system, to administer users and software, to use vi, basic Linux security, process control, file system maintenance, backup and recovery, including some basic networking concepts. This course insures that students have the skills to configure all desktop and client side related activity.
Attendees to L-245: Linux System Administration I will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
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Duration: 5 days
Course Objectives:
- Linux operating system installation
- Hardware Issues
- LILO & GRUB Configuration
- Managing the Linux file system
- Boot Process
- Customization of setup files
- System Startup
- Run Levels
- Network Services
- User Management
- Changing Passwords
- Monitoring, accessing & restricting root system access
- Administration Tools
- Disk Management
- Quotas
- Process Control
- Installing & removing software & patches
- Network Configuration
- Client side components of NFS, Samba, NTP, NIS
- Printing
- Backup and Recovery
- Using utilities for process control, locating files & automating maintenance tasks
Prerequisites:
- Students should have an understanding of all basic UNIX commands as well as variable substitution, wild card expansion, command pipes, permissions, the grep and find commands.
- These prerequisites can be met through completion of TN-125: Introduction to UNIX & Linux and six month’s experience with Linux.
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Instructor comments: Very Good Instructor (Bill Peterson)
Facilities comments: Nice - Can't wait for your new facility.
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Course Overview:
In this course, the students will design various data platform technologies into solutions that are in line with business and technical requirements. This can include on-premises, cloud, and hybrid data scenarios which incorporate relational, NoSQL, or Data Warehouse data. They will also learn how to design process architectures using a range of technologies for both streaming and batch data. The students will also explore how to design data security, including data access, data policies, and standards. They will also design Azure data solutions, which includes the optimization, availability, and disaster recovery of big data, batch processing, and streaming data solutions.
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 DP-201: Designing an Azure Data Solution will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Date/Locations:
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Course Duration: 3 days
Course Outline:
- Data Platform Architecture Considerations
- Azure Batch Processing Reference Architectures
- Azure Real-Time Reference Architectures
- Data Platform Security Design Considerations
- Designing for Resiliency and Scale
- Design for Efficiency and Operations
Prerequisites :
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- In addition to their professional experience, students who take this training should have technical knowledge equivalent to the following courses:
- AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
- DP-200: Implementing an Azure Data Solution
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Course Overview:
This hands-on course provides a comprehensive introduction to programming logic, and builds a solid foundation of programming skills that can be used to master additional programming languages like C, C++, PERL, Java or Python. To learn programming you must focus on a particular language, and we have chosen Java. In this course you will write and debug programs in Python. If you would like this course to use a different computer language, that can be arranged.
Attendees to PL-115: Fundamentals of Computer Programming will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
No Events
Duration: 5 Days
Course Objectives:
- Writing Simple Programs Data Types, Constants, & Variables
- Screen Output & Keyboard Input
- Expressions
- Decision Making
- Looping
- Subroutines
- Debugging
- Data Collections – Arrays
- Data Collections – Classes Working with Files
Prerequisites:
- This course is for students starting out in programming. No programming experience is required.
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User: tsonger
Instructor comments: While I could tell the instructor was very knowledgeable, his instructions were not very clear. He could've done a better job preparing for the class.
Facilities comments: Room was fine. The location of the room could have been better as the dings from the elevator were a bit distractive.
User: TracyPaul
Instructor comments: Very knowledgeable. Diagnosed our programming problems in short order. Could go into the details of 'why', versus only the 'how'.
Facilities comments: Outstanding. The hotel staff did a great job supporting our class.
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