Observations of Instructor Led Training with Real Hardware

TechNow has heard many students talk about virtualized/remote training that TechNow Does Not Do. While training our most recent offering of PA-215: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Essentials FastTrack a student told his story of how he endend up in our course. His story we have heard for other technologies like Cisco, VMware, BlueCoat and other products.

A large percentage of training is moving to the virtualized/remote lab environments. Students are asked to use some variant of remote access software and remote into the training company's lab environment. Our student in our Palo Alto Networks Firewall course informed us that he went to a very costly offering of that course from the vendor and was not able to perform any labs. There were either network connectivity issues, or issues with the remote access software, or other problems. The whole training experience was very frustrating and not productive.

We keep our labs open to students if they would like after hours, or before hours access. Repeatedly going through a lab engrains that knowledge for later recall. Touching hardware is so critical in understanding the problems that arise when a cable comes loose, or a cable gets plugged in the wrong port. There are other scenarios such as just pulling the power cable, or turning off a power strip, or accidently overwriting a configuration. These disaster scenarious requires hands-on physical access to hardware. Preventing and recovering from disasters is what it's all about, and that requires hands-on, instructor led, real hardware.

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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CL-355: Containers, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift Administration

Course Overview:

Through an introduction to Docker, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift Platform, this training course helps you understand one of the key tenets of the DevOps and DevSecOps Platform (DSOP) movement: continuous integration and continuous deployment. The CI/CD pipeline becomes well understood and implemented in an open architecture. Containers have become a key technology for the configuration and deployment of applications and micro services. Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform that provides foundational services in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, which allows enterprises to manage container deployments and scale their applications using Kubernetes.

This training course provides an overview of the DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Platform (DSOP) Reference Design, its current state, and ties to DoD Cloud Platform One (P1). Workflows of the DoD Iron Bank container repository are introduced, along with an overview of the DoD Pipeline as represented in Big Bang. Continuous authorization cATO via Party Bus within NIST RMF is presented. You will become aware of the Platform One (P1) integrations and relationship to Docker, Kubernetes, Istio (Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh) and Red Hat OpenShift Platform.

In addition to gaining an understanding of these tools, you will build core administration skills through the installation, configuration, and management of an OpenShift cluster and containerized applications.

Course Objectives:

Learn about Containers, Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift architecture
Overview DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Platform (DSOP) Reference Design and DoD Cloud Platform One (P1)
Tie together awareness of various DoD Cloud offerings and their relationships
Create containerized services
Manage containers and container images
Deploy multi-container applications
Install an OpenShift cluster
Configure and manage masters and nodes
Secure OpenShift
Control access to resources on OpenShift
Monitor and collect metrics on OpenShift
Deploy applications on OpenShift using source-to-image (S2I)
Manage storage on OpenShift

Course Outline:

Getting started with container technology
Creating containerized services
Managing containers
Managing container images
Creating custom container images
Deploying containerized applications on OpenShift
Deploying multi-container applications
Troubleshooting containerized applications
Comprehensive Review of Introduction to Container, Kubernetes, and RedHat OpenShift
Introducing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Installing OpenShift Container Platform
Describing and exploring OpenShift networking concepts
Executing commands
Controlling access to OpenShift resources
Allocating persistent storage
Managing application deployments
Installing and configuring the metrics subsystem
Managing and monitoring OpenShift Container Platform

Dates/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 5 Days

Prerequisites:

Ability to use a Linux® terminal session and issue operating system commands
Good foundation in Linux
Experience with web application architectures and their corresponding technologies

Target Audience:

Developers who wish to containerize software applications
Administrators who are new to container technology and container orchestration
Architects who are considering using container technologies in software architectures
System administrators
System architects
Architects and developers who want to install and configure OpenShift Container Platform
Those working in the field of DevSecOps supporting DoD Platform One (P1) and other implementations

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TN-223: Advanced Shell Programming

Course Overview:

The course teaches students to use the sort, grep, sed, & awk utilities within Unix. Systems administrators, Unix users, & programmers benefit from the course showing them how to use the command line applications of sort, grep, sed, & awk commands as well as using sed & awk scripts that develop the users skills with the full power of these utilities.

Attendees to TN-223: Advanced Shell Programming will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 3 Days

Course Objectives:

Sorting files by line or field
Regular Expressions (meta character) with grep commands to locate specific lines in files
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)
Grep, egrep extended metacharacters, combinations-lab advanced combinations- lab Sed
Basic commands- Lab, Advanced commands- Lab, Advanced scripting -Lab
Miscellaneous commands Tr, sort, cut, paste, pr -Lab

Prerequisites:

TN-125: Introduction to UNIX & Linux
TN 215: Shell Programming.
Students should have a basic knowledge of UNIX commands including rm, cp, man, cat, & mkdir. Navigating directory structure using commands such as ls, cp, & pwd. Creating and editing files with the vi editor or text editor. Use of basic programming constructs, & commands such as variables & loops & how to write a simple program in a programming language.

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MS-6231: Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server Database

Course Overview:

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to maintain a Microsoft SQL Server database. The course focuses on teaching individuals how to use SQL Server product features and tools related to maintaining a database.

Attendees to MS-6231: Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server Database will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 5 Days

Course Objectives:

Installing and Configuring SQL Server
Managing Databases and Files
Disaster Recovery
Managing Security
Transferring Data
Automating Administrative Tasks
Implementation Replication
Maintaining High Availability
Monitoring SQL Server
Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning

Prerequisites:

None

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Instructor comments: Clay was knowledgeable instructor with enough experience to make subject matter relatable to real world usage.