CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ is for both IT and non-technical professionals who require the essential business acumen needed to make informed cloud service decisions. Cloud Essentials is a vendor-neutral credential designed to validate the candidate has an understanding of basic terms and definitions of cloud computing along with the different processes involved in the successful adoption of cloud computing and its implications for organizations’ use.
TechNow is a CompTIA partner and uses official CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ curriculum.
Attendees to CT-213: Cloud Essentials+ will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Domain 2: Business Principles of Cloud Environments
Identify and employ appropriate cloud assessments like feasibility studies, benchmarking, or gap analysis
Highlight key business aspects of cloud vendor relation adoption, and comprehend cloud migration approaches
Domain 3: Management and Technical Operations
Explain aspects of operating within the cloud, such as data management or optimization
Understand the role of DevOps in cloud environments, like API integration or provisioning
Domain 4: Governance, Risk, Compliance and Security for the Cloud
Understand risk management and response concepts related to cloud services and identify the importance and impacts of compliance in the cloud, such as regulatory concerns or international standards.
Course Prerequisites:
CompTIA recommends that a candidate have at least 6 months of experience in an IT environment, with direct involvement in IT-related tasks responsibilities and/or decision making.
This course identifies how business analysts can elicit Agile requirements by writing user stories from use cases and personas of customer profiles. This leads to the processes of confirming the validity and usability for quality of the product development. An Agile Business Analyst has become a new recognized role within the other Agile Framework roles.
Attendees to PM-242:Defining Agile Requirements with User Stories will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
No Events
Duration: 2 Days
Course Objectives: At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:
Understand the Scrum Flow, the core components of the Scrum framework
Understand the scope of the Product Owner role in detail
Understand the scope of the Agile Business Analysis role in coordination with the Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development Team
Understand the scope of the Scrum Master role at a high level
Understand the scope of the Scrum Development Team roles
Document the interactions between the user of a system and the system itself
Dive into understanding the Agile principles for requirements using user stories in a card, conversation, and confirmation format
Target Student:
Designed specifically for Agile project team members, product owners, project leaders and business analysts or anyone wanting to understand the Agile Framework.
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:
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: No Events
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
The introduction to SQL Databases training course is designed to train the learners on the fundamentals of database concepts. You will not only learn about the different types of databases, the languages and designs as well as describe important database concepts using SQL Server 2016. Anyone who is moving into a database role will benefit from taking this course.
Attendees to MS-5002: Introduction to SQL Databases will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Students will learn how to implement Azure compute solutions, create Azure Functions, implement and manage web apps, develop solutions utilizing Azure storage, implement authentication and authorization, and secure their solutions by using KeyVault and Managed Identities. Students will also learn how to connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services, and include event- and message-based models in their solutions. The course also covers monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing Azure 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 AZ-204:Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Date/Locations:
No Events
Course Duration: 5 days
Course Outline:
Creating Azure App Service Web Apps
Implement Azure functions
Develop solutions that use blob storage
Develop solutions that use Cosmos DB storage
Implement laaS solutions
Implement user authentication and authorization
Implement secure cloud solutions
Implement API Management
Develop App Service Logic Apps
Develop event-based solutions
Develop message-based solutions
Monitor and optimize Azure solutions
Integrate caching and content delivery within solutions