Course Overview:
Through hands-on labs, you will learn to automate system administration tasks on managed hosts with Ansible, learn how to write Ansible playbooks to standardize task execution, and manage encryption for Ansible with Ansible Vault. This course will also teach you how to deploy and use Red Hat® Ansible Tower to centrally manage existing Ansible projects, playbooks, and roles; perform basic maintenance and administration of the Ansible Tower installation; and configure users and teams and use them to control access to systems, projects, and other resources through role-based access controls. You will learn to use Ansible Tower’s visual dashboard to launch, control, and monitor Ansible jobs; use the Ansible Tower application programming interface (API) to launch jobs from existing templates; automatically schedule Ansible jobs; and dynamically update host inventories.
Course Objectives:
- Install and troubleshoot Ansible on central nodes and managed hosts
- Automate administration tasks with Ansible playbooks and ad hoc commands
- Write effective Ansible playbooks
- Protect sensitive data used by tasks with Ansible Vault.
- Install and configure Ansible Tower for enterprise Ansible management
- Use Ansible Tower to control access to inventories and machine credentials by users and teams
- Create job templates in Ansible Tower to standardize playbook execution.
- Centrally launch playbooks and monitor and review job results with Ansible Tower
Course Outline:
- Introduce Ansible
- Deploy Ansible
- Implement playbooks
- Manage variables and inclusions
- Implement task control
- Implement Jinja2 templates
- Implement roles
- Configure complex playbooks
- Implement Ansible Vault
- Troubleshoot Ansible
- Install Ansible Tower and describe Ansible Tower’s architecture
- Create users and teams for role-based access control
- Create and manage inventories and credentials
- Manage projects for provisioning with Ansible Tower
- Construct advanced job workflows
- Update inventories dynamically and compare inventory members
- Maintenance and administration of Ansible Tower
Dates/Locations:
Duration: 5 Days
Prerequisites:
- Become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator, or demonstrate equivalent experience
Target Audience:
This course is designed for Linux system administrators, cloud administrators, and network administrators needing to automate configuration management, application deployment, and intraservice orchestration at an enterprise scale.
TechNow has been training IT, programming, and Cyber Security for over 28 years. To stay competitive and to adequately secure an enterprise, organizations need to move towards the DevOps Model. DevOps breaks down barriers between the developer and operations teams to improve collaboration and communication.
DevOps is radically changing the way organizations design, build, deploy, and operate online systems. Development and Operations teams come together to move requirements through a continuous workflow.
DevOps leaders deploy hundreds of changes every day, utilizing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery to leave their competitors behind. As DevOps becomes commonplace, organizations need to evolve their security practices to the DevOps Model.
Here is our list of DevOps related courses.
Course Overview:
TechNow’s Course provides existing .NET developers with practical information and labs that enables them to build solutions on the Microsoft SharePoint 2010/2013 platform.
Attendees to MS-10175: Developing & Customizing Applications for Microsoft SharePoint 2010/2013 will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Date/Locations:
Duration: 5 days
Course Objectives:
- Introduction to SharePoint 2010/2013 Development Platform
- Using SharePoint 2010/2013 Developer Tools
- Developing SharePoint 2010/2013 Web Parts
- Working with SharePoint Objects on the Server
- Creating Event Receivers and Application Settings
- Developing Solutions by Using Business Connectivity Services
- Developing SharePoint 2010/2013 Workflows
- Working with Client-based APIs for SharePoint 2010/2013
- Developing Interactive User Interfaces
- Developing Silverlight Applications for SharePoint
- Developing Sandboxed Solutions
- Working with SharePoint Server Profiles and Taxonomy APIs
- Developing Content Management Solutions
Prerequisites:
- An understanding of the problem-solving techniques that apply to software development
- Approximately 12 months experience with ASP .NET 3.5 with Visual Studio 2008 (or later)
- Approximately 1 month development experience with SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010/2013 and VS2010/2013 (includes beta releases) creating code that interacts with the SharePoint Sever-side APIs
- Experience performing end user tasks with SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010/2013 and an understanding of the purpose and use of the following:
- Lists
- Documents and Libraries
- Personalizing an SP Page/Site
- Using MySites
- Using SharePoint Designer
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Facilities comments: Were good
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Course Overview: Clear and detailed discussion on the following course content:
- What is the Agile Adaptive Methodology versus the Predictive (waterfall) Methodology?
- The Agile Value Proposition, by explanation of the Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles.
- What is the Scrum Framework by explanation of Scrum Roles, Ceremonies and Artifacts?
- What are the artifacts of Product Planning, Release Planning and Sprint Planning?
- What are the Agile impacts to corporate team structures and stakeholder alignment?
- What are Agile myths and why an Agile transformation will fail?
- What are Agile (hybrid) tailoring considerations?
Attendees to PM-221: Agile Overview for Executives and Leaderswill receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
Duration: 1 Days
Course Objectives: Are you and executive or leader in your organization and interested in learning about Agile principles? This course details the Agile framework that uses an adaptive life cycle, specifically related to using the Scrum approach.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand an overview of the main aspects that leadership must know to implement strategic opportunities with Agile principles for product quality and on-time product delivery
- Participants will dive into understanding the strategic and tactical elements of implementing Agile and Scrum into their organization
- Receive details on how to understand the organizational impact that the Agile transformation could have on the different aspects of your current business processes
Target Student:
- Designed specifically for leaders and senior managers or anyone wanting to understand the high-level basics of the Agile Framework
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Course Overview:
PenTest+ is an intermediate-level certification for cybersecurity professionals who are tasked with penetration testing to identify, exploit, report, and manage vulnerabilities on a network. PenTest+ is at the same certification level as CT-395: CySA+. Depending on your course of study, PenTest+ and CySA+ can be taken in any order, but typically follow the skills learned in CT-325: Security+. PenTest+ focuses on offense through penetration testing and vulnerability assessment while CySA+ focuses on defense through incident detection and response. The most qualified cybersecurity professionals have both offensive and defensive skills. Attend Tech Now training for hands-on, instructor led course to prepare you for the CompTIA PT0-002 exam. This exam is hands-on, performance-based questions and multiple choice, to ensure each candidate possesses the skills, knowledge, and ability to perform tasks on systems.

What’s Included:
- 5 days of instructor led in classroom training
- Labs
- PenTest+ Courseware
- Exam Voucher
- PenTest+ onsite exam scheduling
Course Objectives:
- Plan and scope penetration tests
- Conduct passive reconnaissance
- Perform non-technical tests to gather information
- Conduct active reconnaissance
- Analyze vulnerabilities
- Penetrate networks
- Exploit host-based vulnerabilities
- Test application
- Complete post-exploit tasks
- Analyze and report pen test results
Dates/Locations:
Duration: 5 Days
Course Content:
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- Module 01. Planning and Scoping Penetration Tests
- Module 02. Conducting Passive Reconnaissance
- Module 03. Performing Non-Technical Tests
- Module 04. Conducting Active Reconnaissance
- Module 05. Analyzing Vulnerabilities
- Module 06. Penetrating Networks
- Module 07. Exploiting Host-Based Vulnerabilities
- Module 08. Testing Applications
- Module 09. Completing Post-Exploit Tasks
- Module 10. Analyzing and Reporting Pen Test Results
Prerequisites:
Target Audience:
This course is designed for cybersecurity professionals tasked with penetration testing and vulnerability management.
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