VM-325: VMware View: Install, Configure and Manage

Course Overview:

This hands-on training course builds your skills in the VMware ViewTM suite of products: VMware View Manager, VMware View Composer, and VMware® ThinAppTM.  Based on customer specification, this course can be based on View 4.x or 5.x, and ThinApp 4.x or 5.x releases.

Attendees to VM-325: VMware View: Install, Configure and Manage will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

At the end of this course, you should understand the features and operations of View and be able to:

  • Install and configure View components
  • Create and manage dedicated and floating desktop pools
  • Deploy and manage linked-clone virtual desktops
  • Configure and manage desktops that run in local mode
  • Configure secure access to desktops through a public network
  • Use ThinApp to package applications

Date/Locations:

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Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

  • Module 1: Course Introduction
  • Module 2: Introduction to VMware View
  • Module 3: View Connection Server
  • Module 4: View Desktops
  • Module 5: View Client Options
  • Module 6: View Administratory
  • Module 7: Configuring and Managing Linked Clones
  • Module 8: Local-Mode Desktops
  • Module 9: Command-Line Tools and Backup Options
  • Module 10: Managing VMware View Security
  • Module 11: View Manager Performance and Scalability
  • Module 12: VMware® ThinAppTM

Prerequisites:

  • VM-315: VMware Infrastructure: Install, Configure and Manage
  • Experience in Microsoft Windows Active Directory Administration
  • Experience with VMware vSphereTM
  • Before attending the course, students must be able to perform the following tasks:
    • Create a template in VMware vCenterTM Server and deploy a virtual machine from it
    • Modify a template customization file
    • Open a virtual machine console in vCenter Server and access the guest operating system
    • Configure Active Directory services

 

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C-215: Introduction to C Programming

 

Course Overview:

The C-215: Introduction to C Programming course is a hands-on course providing a complete introduction to the ANSI C programming language, focusing on quickly developing the practical skills needed to create real-world solutions.  Our hands-on labs are designed to promote retention and challenge students to apply their skills to new situations.

Attendees to C-215: Introduction to C Programming will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

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Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

  • What is C?
  • Basics of Program Writing
  • Style
  • Basic Declarations & Expressions
  • Arrays, Qualifiers & Reading Numbers
  • Decision & Control Statements
  • Programming Process
  • More Controls Statements
  • Variable Scope & Functions
  • C Preprocessor
  • Bit Operations
  • Advanced Types
  • Simple Pointers
  • File Input/Output
  • Debugging & Optimization
  • Floating Point

Prerequisites:

Before attending this course, you should be able to use basic UNIX commands and have previous programming experience language, or have taken our Introduction to Computer Progamming class.

 

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TN-5305: Supporting and Troubleshooting Windows 11

 

Course Overview:

This five-day instructor-led course provides IT professionals with the knowledge and skills required to Support and Troubleshoot Windows 11 PCs and devices in an on-premises Windows Server Active Directory domain environment.

Attendees to TN-5320: Supporting and Troubleshooting Windows 11 will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

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Duration: 5 Days

Course Objectives:

  • Describe the processes involved in planning and using a troubleshooting methodology for Windows 11
  • Troubleshoot startup issues and operating system services on a Windows 11 PC
  • Perform system recovery
  • Resolve issues related to hardware devices and device drivers
  • Administer Windows 11 devices
  • Troubleshoot issues related to network connectivity
  • Configure Windows 11 devices by using Group Policy
  • Configure and troubleshoot user settings
  • Configure and troubleshoot resource access
  • Implement remote connectivity
  • Deploy and troubleshoot applications
  • Maintain Windows 11 devices

 

 Prerequisites: 

  • Networking fundamentals, including Transmission Control Protocol /Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and Domain Name System (DNS).
  • Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) principles.
  • Understanding of the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) components.
  • Windows Server fundamentals.

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L-395: Accelerated Linux Administration and Utilities

Course Overview:

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
  • Basic commands- Lab, Advanced commands- Lab, Advanced scripting -Lab
  • Miscellaneous commands Tr, sort, cut, past, pr -Lab
  • 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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Facilities comments: The hotel facilities met our basic needs but it was awkward having a bathroom so close. I can't wait for the new facility to open.

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Instructor comments: Instructor was super knowledgeable and helped me tie in a lot of information from other OS and processes.

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TN-512: Essential Business Analysis Course

Course Overview:

This course covers the key elements required to understand and apply business analysis techniques in an IT-centric business environment.  It identifies key best practices to deal with the challenges of eliciting, analyzing, and specifying project requirements.  The key material in each section of this course is reinforced with a student driven lab scenario allowing each participant hands-on practice with the key business analysis concepts that are introduced in this course. At the end of the focused sections on business analysis techniques, the students will engage in a student-driven business analysis case study blending all the learned techniques into a finished product. This course is approximately 60% lecture and  40% lab time.

Attendees to TN-512: Essential Business Analysis Course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 5 Days

Course Objectives:

  • Overview of Business Analysis Workshop
  • Eliciting Project Workshop
  • Case Study
  • Analyzing Requirements and Writing Case Studies
  • Case Study

Prerequisites:

  • None

 

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