Course Overview:

This FastTrack course combines combines two VMware courses (VMware Cloud Essentials and vCloud Architecting the VMware Cloud) into a single week course that adds extra exercises and labs to exemplify the techniques presented.  The course begins with how to adopt, operate, and govern the cloud. The course enables participants to successfully complete the associated CompTIA Cloud Essentials™ Exam to become a Cloud Essentials™ Professional(CEP). This course also covers the subject matter specified by the VCP-Cloud certification.

This course is designed to guide students through the decision points and policy choices available for designing and implementing a VMware vCloud environment. Detailed labs and exercises for VMware vSphere™, VMware vCloud Director, VMware vCenter™ Chargeback, and the VMware® vShield Edge capability that is included with vCloud Director. A comprehensive VMware cloud design is demonstrated and discussed.

Attendees to VM-335:  VMware Cloud Essentials and vCloud – Architecting the VMware Cloud FastTrack will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

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Course Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

• Understand the common terms and definitions of cloud computing.
• Understand the business benefits and business considerations of cloud computing.
• Understand cloud computing from a technical perspective and recognize the various techniques, methods, challenges, and types of clouds.
• Understand the impact and changes of cloud computing on IT service management.
• Explain typical steps that lead to the successful adoption of cloud computing and understand the implications for organizations.
• Recognize the compliance, risk, and regulatory consequences of cloud computing and its financial and strategic impact on an organization.
• Evaluate and design a multitenant environment to address both private cloud and public cloud customer needs.
• Configure vCloud providers that can accommodate heterogeneous server, storage, and network resources
• Design a network infrastructure optimized for vCloud.
• Integrate vCloud Director security with existing LDAP systems and design appropriate security hierarchies with security rolesnderstand the common terms and definitions of cloud computing.
• Understand the business benefits and business considerations of cloud computing.
• Understand cloud computing from a technical perspective and recognize the various techniques, methods, challenges, and types of clouds.
• Understand the impact and changes of cloud computing on IT service management.
• Explain typical steps that lead to the successful adoption of cloud computing and understand the implications for organizations.
• Recognize the compliance, risk, and regulatory consequences of cloud computing and its financial and strategic impact on an organization.
• Evaluate and design a multitenant environment to address both private cloud and public cloud customer needs.
• Configure vCloud providers that can accommodate heterogeneous server, storage, and network resources.
• Design a network infrastructure optimized for vCloud.
• Integrate vCloud Director security with existing LDAP systems and design appropriate security hierarchies with security roles.
• Design a vCenter Chargeback implementation.

Course Prerequisites:

• VM-315  or equivalent experience.
• Managing or administering at least one of UNIX, Windows, databases, networking, or security.

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Course Overview:

This course provides security professionals with the skills and knowledge to perform vulnerability and compliance scanning of supported operating systems, devices, and applications. Students will construct custom scan policies for topology discovery, network vulnerability detection, credentialed patch audits, and compliance benchmarks, and discuss the underlying technologies utilized by the Nessus scanner.

This course provides students with the necessary information to prepare for the Tenable Certified Nessus Auditor (TCNA) exam.

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Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

• Introduction to Nessus and Vulnerability Scanning
• Nessus Installation and Administration
• Basic Nessus Scan Operation
• Nessus Scan Configuration and Policy Creation
• Vulnerability Analysis and Reporting with Nessus
• Advanced Scan Configuration and Policy Creation
• Introduction to Compliance and Auditing
• Nessus Auditing Features
• Windows System Auditing
• Unix System Auditing
• Cisco IOS Auditing
• Nessus Database Auditing
• Nessus Content Auditing
• Auditing to Industry Guidelines
• Auditing to Federal Guidelines

Prerequisites:

Students should possess a basic understanding of TCP/IP networking, operating systems security, and common client/server applications.

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Course Overview:

In this course, you will gain the knowledge and skills needed to configure, maintain, and operate Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance.

Attendees to N-455: Securing Networks with ASA Fundamentals (SNAF) will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

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Duration: 5 Days

Course Objectives:

• Introducing Cisco Security Appliance Technology and Features
• Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and PIX Security Appliance Families
• Getting Started with Cisco Security Appliances
• Essential Security Appliance Configuration
• Configuring Translations and Connection Limits
• Using ACLS and Content Filtering
• Configuring Object Grouping
• Switching and Routing on Security Appliances
• Configuring AAA for Cut-Through Proxy
• Configuring the Cisco Modular Policy Framework
• Configuring Advanced Protocol Handling
• Configuring Threat Detection
• Configuring Site-to-Site VPNS Using PreShared Keys
• Configuring Security Appliance Remote Access VPNs
• Configuring Cisco Security Appliance for SSL VPN
• Configuring Transparent Firewalls Mode
• Configuring Security Contexts
• Configuring Failover
• Managing Security Appliances

Prerequisites:

• CCNA certification

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Course Overview:

This course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use PowerShell for administering and automating administration of Windows servers. This course provides students the skills to identify and build the command they require to perform a specific task. In addition, students learn how to build scripts to accomplish advanced tasks such as automating repetitive tasks and generating reports. This course provides prerequisite skills supporting a broad range of Microsoft products, including Windows Server, Windows Client, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft 365. In keeping with that goal, this course will not focus on any one of those products, although Windows Server, which is the common platform for all of those products, will serve as the example for the techniques this course teaches.

Attendees to TN-765: Automating Administration with Windows Powershell will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

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Course Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

• Describe the functionality of Windows PowerShell and use it to run and find basic commands
• Identify and run cmdlets for server administration
• Work with Windows PowerShell pipeline
• Describe the techniques Windows PowerShell pipeline uses
• Use PSProviders and PSDrives to work with other forms of storage
• Query system information by using WMI and CIM
• Work with variables, arrays, and hash tables
• Write basic scripts in Windows PowerShell
• Write advanced scripts in Windows PowerShell
• Administer remote computers
• Use background jobs and scheduled jobs
• Use advanced Windows PowerShell techniques

Course Prerequisites:

• Experience with Windows networking technologies and implementation.
• Experience with Windows Server administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.

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Course Overview:

The RHCSA Rapid Track Course  is designed for experienced Linux® system administrators who want to expand their technical skill sets and become accredited with the Red Hat® Certified System Administration (RHCSA) certification. To successfully navigate this course, students must already have solid experience with the Linux command line—including the necessary skills to execute common commands, such as cp, grep, sort, mkdir, tar, mkfs, ssh, and yum—and be familiar with accessing man pages for help. At the completion of the course, students will be adequately prepared to take the RHCSA exam (RH200) .

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Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

• Installation, configuration, and management of local storage
• Deployment and maintenance of network services
• Network services: VNC, SSH, FTP, and web
• Securing files with ACLs
• Securing network services with firewall and SELinux
• Managing virtual machines with KVM technology
• Automating installation of Linux using Kickstart

Prerequisites:

Experience in the field system administration.

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