This is a hands-on course that covers many of the concepts of securing the perimeter of an organization. This includes concepts such as intrusion detection, packet filtering, and central logging.
A skills focus enables the student to better absorb the subject matter and perform better on the job. This is not death by power point. The course is aligned with information assurance operators and executing hands-on labs. Lecture and labs walk the student through the knowledge required to truly understand the mechanics of Firewalls.
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
Course two of a three course series to obtain a Server 2016 MCSA certification. This 5-day course provides the fundamental networking skills required to deploy and support Windows Server 2016 in most organizations. It covers IP fundamentals, remote access technologies, and more advanced content including Software Defined Networking.
The course leads directly to preparing for the(MCSA):Windows Server 2016 exam “70-741: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016”. It also maps to Microsoft’s course 20741A, and is part of the Server 2016 MCSA certification.
Attendees to TN-5425: Networking with Window Server 2016 will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
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:
No Events
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
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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