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I always find that focusing on practical first and foremost is key to success, especially with weaker students. This is because focusing on the practical builds confidence as well as encourages students to formulate questions (building interest in the topic material). Once they have confidence...

Outside of academia, I kube the netes as an SRE for 2 different companies in Waterloo, Canada. Kubernetes isn't easy to explore, so I did up a quick blog with something that students respond very well to (I have steps for both Windows & macOS hosts in there)...

Linux+ also tests shell scripting too.

OK - I managed to find the new objectives (different part of the site I wasn't looking at). The objectives are flat-out excellent. I first noticed that the concepts and topics are much clearer, and legacy concepts are now gone. There really isn't anything I can think of that's missing - or...

I can't seem to find the new XK0-005 exam objectives on the CompTIA site anywhere (full disclosure: I have not had my third coffee this morning yet). But, on the Linux+ page on the main CompTIA site, I really really like the description under the new exam: The new version of CompTIA Linux+...

I guess that makes sense. For the few of us who straddle both the educational and industry side, we'll always choose to keep the instructor benefits ;-)

Out of curiosity, I did check out the application page to become an SME (https://www.comptia.org/certifications/become-a-subject-matter-expert), and even filled out nearly the entire application. But near the bottom, they want you to upload a resume (in addition to LinkedIn). And while I keep my...

Happy Thanksgiving (a.k.a. Family Tech Support Day) ;)

:) - I can understand keeping rsyslog for those reasons. - I only got a single git question when I wrote XK0-004 (which is why I wanted more) - every exam is different I guess! - Z shell basics and environment files are good mainly because many distros are starting to adopt it as the default...

Definitely looking forward to the new Linux+ (I'll be writing the 6th edition of my Linux+ Guide to Linux Certification for Cengage to be geared to it). My secret wish list for XK0-005 updates include: -Fewer legacy topics (rsyslogd, SysV init) -More Git and network services -Ansible -Z shell...

We teach it as one long course (100 hours of instruction), but tell students to focus on 1001 first and use the detailed certification objectives as a knockdown list when studying for the certification. Once they pass 1001, they can do the same for 1002. One good benefit of teaching all of it...

Covering Linux, Windows, Networking, BASH, PowerShell, Python: https://tutorials.cyberaces.org/tutorials.html

If you can't run a Linux VM (e.g. Kali) to perform penetration testing in your environment, or if you have a class with limited Linux prerequisite knowledge, here's a great resource that allows you to run open source pen testing tools directly on Windows: https://pentestbox.org/

To keep on top of the ever-changing security landscape, I listen to security-focused podcasts in my downtime. It also allows me to bring in bleeding edge info and events into my Cybersecurity classes. Does anyone have podcasts they listen to? Here are a list of those I follow: Cyberwire...

Multicloud is common practice in accelerators and startups that are getting to the point where they can scale, but need to keep costs to a minimum. The accelerator center I did some work for a few years ago had me build a devops workflow that would stage and run app containers the startups were...

Also keep in mind that ifconfig will always be available on Linux systems too (deprecation simply means it's not the recommended method for configuring IP - which means nothing in the IT world ;-). Even if your Linux distro ships with the ip command only (part of iproute2 package), you can still...

I start by having students create a PowerShell script to parse security-related events on a Win10 system (the ones here: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3561889/the-most-important-windows-10-security-event-log-ids-to-monitor.html). Once they grab the right events, I make sure they have the...

On a positive note, SolarWinds is now the global leader in remote access ;)

When it comes to ifconfig, deprecation just means "there's a simpler/preferred way to do things" and not "ifconfig is going away". In fact, ifconfig is still the preferred method for lightweight systems in the cloud and the only method on some distros and UNIX flavours (e.g. *BSD).