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HANDS-ON LAB CHALLENGE

Amazon ECS Integrations Challenge

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a container orchestration service that you can use to run complex workloads in the public AWS cloud. It's a managed, scalable, and cost-effective way to deploy your containerized applications. Learning how to integrate other AWS services with an existing Amazon ECS cluster will benefit anyone looking to level up their ECS skills. This hands-on lab challenge will test your practical ability to modify a solution in a production-like AWS environment. You will be presented with a task and set of requirements you must fulfill to pass the challenge.

Git hooks are scripts that run automatically when certain Git events occur. Git hooks can be used to automate tasks such as running tests, linting code, and checking for code formatting issues. Learn to create Git hooks in this hands-on lab.

Working with large tables in DynamoDB

In this course, we're going to explain how DynamoDB partitions your data and what that means for large DynamoDB tables.

Amazon ECS Microservices Networking With AWS App Mesh

In this lab, you will learn the fundamentals of AWS App Mesh and how to use it to monitor and control microservices running on Amazon ECS. You see how App Mesh integrates with a microservices application in Amazon ECS running on AWS Fargate. You will also learn how to use AWS X-Ray to trace requests as they flow through the mesh. Finally, you will leverage App Mesh's traffic control capabilities to perform a canary deployment of a new version of one of the application's microservices.

Final Exam: Azure Services for Security Engineers

Undoing Changes in Different States of Git

Git includes multiple commands for undoing changes, depending on the situation. This hands-on lab covers the git reset and git revert commands.

Tracking and Recording Activity with AWS CloudTrail

In this course, we introduce you to the AWS CloudTrail service, which allows you to monitor and record activity across your AWS accounts by capturing both API and non-API events.

SC-900 Exam Prep: Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals

React - Introduction to JSX

In this course, you learn about JSX. JSX is a syntax extension to JavaScript used with React.

HANDS-ON LAB CHALLENGE

Securing Azure Container Apps With Private Link and Application Gateway Challenge

This hands-on lab challenge will test your practical ability to interact with Azure Automation to satisfy a set of requirements in a production-like Azure environment. You will be presented with a task and set of requirements you must fulfill to pass the challenge.

Git stash is a useful feature for temporarily saving changes that are not ready to be committed. Explore the git stash command with this hands-on lab.

HANDS-ON LAB CHALLENGE

Amazon Elastic Container Service End-To-End Challenge

This hands-on lab challenge will test your practical ability to modify a solution in a production-like AWS environment. You will be presented with a task and set of requirements you must fulfill to pass the challenge.

Introduction to AWS CodeBuild

In this course, we explain the basics of AWS CodeBuild and how it can be used to compile, build, and test your source code.

Create an event-driven architecture in AWS

In this Learning Path you’ll learn about the various services available to create event-driven cloud solutions in AWS. As you learn about these services just think about how you would combine them to solve problems.

Messaging Services in Azure

In this course, we explore three Azure messaging services: Azure Event Grid, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Service Bus, and what they are used for.

Azure Service Bus: What It Is, What It Does, and How It Integrates

This course explores the fundamentals of the Azure Service Bus.

Introduction to Git

Git has become the distributed database that facilitates DevOps. Learn to use the world's most popular version control system in this hands-on lab.

Configuring Repositories for Azure DevOps

Source control repositories are an important part of software development. They ensure that data can always be recovered and they also enable continuous integration. Azure DevOps includes features common to modern software development such as source control repositories, continuous integration pipelines, agile planning tools, and more. This course covers several topics which fall under the umbrella of configuring repositories for Azure DevOps.

Securing Azure Container Apps With Private Endpoints and Application Gateway

Learn how to secure the communication of an Azure Container Apps instance using a private endpoint and an Application Gateway in this hands-on lab.

Database Migration Strategies for GCP

In this course, we cover Google’s recommended best practices for migrating any database to the Google Cloud Platform. The four main phases covered are Assess, Plan, Deploy, and Optimize.

Google Professional Cloud Database Engineer Exam Preparation

This learning path is designed to help you prepare for the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Database Engineer Exam. Even if you don't plan to take the exam, these courses will help you gain a solid understanding of designing, provisioning, running, and maintaining various database services on the Google Cloud Platform.

Custom Sensitive Information Types in Microsoft 365

In this course, we look at how to create custom sensitive information types with tools like Exact Data Match classification, keyword dictionaries, and document fingerprinting.

Creating DynamoDB Tables and Indices

In this course, we present how to create DynamoDB tables including local and secondary indices.

Provisioning an Amazon ECS Cluster Using Terraform

In this lab, you will provision an Amazon ECS Cluster into an existing Amazon VPC.

HANDS-ON LAB CHALLENGE

Amazon ECS Networking Challenge

This hands-on lab challenge will test your practical ability to deploy a solution in a production-like AWS environment. You will be presented with a task and set of requirements you must fulfill to pass the challenge.

Understanding Sensitive Information Types in Microsoft 365

This course examines sensitive information types within Microsoft 365 and how you can use them to protect your data.

HANDS-ON LAB CHALLENGE

Amazon ECS IAM Challenge

The challenges is centered around a sample application deployed to Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate. The application is deployed in your AWS lab challenge account. The application is not working as expected and you must resolve the issues to make the application fully operational.

HANDS-ON LAB CHALLENGE

Monitoring Amazon ECS with CloudWatch Challenge

Amazon Elastic Container Service resources can provide CPU and memory utilization metrics gathered from the cluster and service that make up an application. These metrics can be monitored and analyzed using Amazon CloudWatch. This lab challenge tests your ability to do that.

Auto scaling and testing an Amazon ECS deployment

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a managed container orchestration service that you can use to run your containerized workloads in the public AWS cloud. By using Amazon ECS, you avoid the technical complexity of creating and managing the infrastructure required to securely and reliably run production workloads. In this hands-on lab, you will configure an Amazon ECS service to automatically scale based on an Amazon CloudWatch metric.

IAM for Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) helps you securely control access to AWS resources, and Amazon ECS is no exception. IAM controls what can access ECS resources in your AWS accounts. IAM also controls which AWS resources ECS and tasks running in ECS can access. This will be the focus of this lab. You will learn about the ECS IAM roles first-hand and diagnose and troubleshoot related issues.

Creating and Maintaining DLP Policies for Endpoints in Microsoft 365

This course focuses on how data loss prevention policies are used with endpoints within Microsoft 365. Much of the demonstrations will happen within the Microsoft Purview portal, and will show scripts running locally with the command and PowerShell terminals.

Securing Access to Your AWS KMS Keys

This course explores how to enforce data security measures within the AWS Key Management Service to ensure that the appropriate controls are in place to effectively protect both company and customer data from being accessed by unauthorized parties.

Monitoring Amazon ECS Resources with Amazon CloudWatch

In this lab, you will explore the metrics provided by CloudWatch container insights. You will walk through the container insights dashboard to visualize ECS metrics, and also leverage the metrics to create a CloudWatch alarm.

Oracle APEX: Foundations

This learning path acts as starting point for aspiring APEX developers as it guides you through the fundamental knowledge of developing applications using APEX. This includes describing Oracle APEX, creating and managing the workspace, learning to use SQL Workshop, creating a database application, developing reports and forms, managing security, and deploying applications.

Using SQL Workshop

This course walks you through how to use SQL Workshop in Oracle APEX.

Migrating Application Development Between Environments

This course guides you through the process of migrating applications between instances within Oracle APEX.

Creating a Database Application

This course will guide you through how to create a database application through a variety of features offered by Oracle APEX.

Creating and Using Forms

This course explores the different types of forms available in Oracle APEX, how to modify them in Page Designer, how to create an editable interactive grid, and how to use master details forms.

Managing Pages in an Application

This course introduces you to application pages and their components within the scope of Oracle APEX. It shows how you can create and manage pages in your applications.

Creating Database Application Components

This course explores how you can add various components to your database applications.

Getting Started with Oracle APEX

This course provides an introduction to the Oracle APEX service, exploring its key features, architecture, and deployment options.

Implementing Security in your Application

In this course, we will explore the security features that Oracle APEX provides to keep your application secure.

Creating Different Types of Reports

This course explores the various types of reports available in Oracle APEX and shows you how to create and view them.

Azure Administration

This learning path is designed to help you become an Azure administrator. It covers five subject areas. We’ll start with implementing and managing Azure Storage. Next, you’ll learn how to deploy and manage compute resources, including virtual machines, containers, and Azure App Service. Then, we’ll go into configuring and managing enterprise-grade virtual networks. After that, we’ll cover how to monitor and back up Azure resources. We'll finish up with managing Azure identities and governance.

CKA Practice Exam: Workloads & Scheduling

This lab is part of a series of practice exam content for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification. Each practice exam in the series provides you with exam-like tasks to perform in a Kubernetes cluster modeled after the clusters used in the real CKA exam. Each practice exam focuses on one particular domain in the CKA exam curriculum. The tasks outlined in the practice exam should be attempted on your own with the consultation of the official Kubernetes documentation, just like in the real exam. If you do need some assistance with a particular task, the solution, and relevant exam tips are provided in the final solution guide lab step in the lab.

Introduction to AWS CodeCommit

This course provides you with an introduction to AWS CodeCommit and how it can be used to manage your source code.

The Fundamentals of the AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

This course introduces the AWS Key Management Service, commonly referred to as KMS. It explains how the service uses cryptography to protect data stored in AWS.

Getting Started with SAP on AWS

Many organizations rely on SAP for their enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solution. In this learning path, we will discuss how to leverage AWS networking, storage, and compute services to support and manage production SAP workloads.

Email Encryption Solutions in Microsoft 365

Email Encryption Solutions in Microsoft 365 looks at how messages and attachments are protected both within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and when they are sent to external recipients. This course outlines the various protection mechanisms at play, how they work, and how to use them. In addition to encryption and information rights management, we see how encrypted messages can be customized with an organization’s branding and what additional functionality comes with custom branding.

HANDS-ON LAB CHALLENGE

Creating AD user using Azure Automation Hybrid Worker Runbook challenge

This hands-on lab challenge will test your practical ability to interact with Azure Automation to satisfy a set of requirements in a production-like Azure environment. You will be presented with a task and set of requirements you must fulfill to pass the challenge.

Using Azure Automation Hybrid Worker to automate Windows server administration

In this lab, you will learn how to create Automation Account Hybrid worker group and onboard a target machine for remote administration. You will also run a script to automate tasks on the machine in this hands-on lab.

Scanning container images for known vulnerabilities

This lab focuses on the Trivy scanning tool by Aqua Security. Trivy is highlighted as a reference tool in the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) exam. You will learn how to scan images with Trivy and filter findings by severity in this lab. You will also apply what you learn to identify critical vulnerabilities in a sample application deployed in Kubernetes.

Knowledge Check: Compute (DOP-C02)

Knowledge Check: Security (SAP-C02) 1 0f 2

How to Use the AWS Command Line Interface

This course is designed for anyone who wants to familiarize themselves with the AWS Command Line Interface. It introduces the AWS Command Line Interface. You'll learn how to install and configure the AWS Command Line Interface, manage CLI credentials, structure CLI commands, control the outputted response data, and use input functionality to make working with the CLI easier.

Understanding ETL Services on AWS

This learning path will explain two vital extract, transform, and load or ETL services on AWS. The two services this learning path will cover are AWS Glue and Amazon EMR.

Architecting, Configuring, and Managing Your Virtual Private Clouds in AWS

This learning path has been designed to provide you with an all round understanding of AWS Virtual Private Clouds, commonly referred to as VPCs. VPCs are essentially your own private area of AWS allowing you to safely provision resources and launch services in this virtual network environment.

Programmatically Interacting with the AWS API

This learning path has been designed to provide you with an understanding of some of the options to programmatically interact with the AWS API.

DynamoDB Basics

In this course, you will learn the basics of Amazon DynamoDB, which is a fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database.

ChatGPT Prompt Engineering, Role Prompts, and Chain Prompting

In this course, you will see prompt engineering in action. We explain what prompt engineering is, give you some common rules that help obtain results from ChatGPT, and cover the concept of giving ChatGPT an identity.

Adaptive Policy Scopes for Microsoft 365 Records Management

This course starts with an overview of what is meant by defining a policy scope. We then review the shortcomings of static scope definitions and investigate how an adaptive scope solution can solve those problems. Having examined the theory, we will then implement an adaptive scope in the context of a regulatory record data retention policy.

Introduction to Google Cloud Functions

This course will demonstrate how you can create complex workflows by using existing Google Cloud Products and connecting them via simple, single-purpose functions.

Knowledge Check: Networking (SAP-C02) 2 of 2

Introduction to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Kubernetes has become one of the most common container orchestration platforms. Google Kubernetes Engine makes managing a Kubernetes cluster much easier by handling most system management tasks for you. It also offers more advanced cluster management features. In this course, we’ll explore how to set up a cluster using GKE as well as how to deploy and run container workloads.

ChatGPT Prompts, Completions, & Tokens

Since its release, ChatGPT has shocked the world with its capabilities. In this course, you will be presented with an introduction to some of the terms used to describe the workings of ChatGPT. This course takes a unique approach by asking ChatGPT what these terms mean.

Vulnerability Management at Scale With Amazon Inspector

In this course, we introduce the latest version of Amazon Inspector, now improved for automated and continuous vulnerability management at scale.

Azure Identity Concepts

In this course, we will go over some basic identity concepts regarding security and Azure.

Microsoft Encryption and Hashing

This course looks at how encryption works in Microsoft and Azure.

SC-400 Exam Prep: Microsoft Information Protection Administrator

This learning path is designed to help you and your team prepare for the SC-400 Microsoft Information Protection Administrator exam. Even if you don't plan to take the exam, these courses will help you get started on your way to becoming a Microsoft Information Protection Administrator.

Developing with Docker

Docker provides developer-friendly tools for creating, deploying, and maintaining container-based applications. Understanding how to effectively leverage Docker is a useful cross-industry skill set. This learning path offers hands-on labs for practical Docker and Docker Compose experience.

Monitoring Outages and Scheduled Changes With AWS Health Dashboard

This course looks at the AWS Health Dashboard, a tool that can help you plan and work around issues in AWS. These events include outages, scheduled maintenance, and service degradation events. So, let’s get you prepared for these events with this awesome tool.

Managing IP Addressing at Scale with Amazon VPC IP Address Manager or IPAM

In this course, we introduce the Amazon VPC IP address Manager, also called IPAM, as the centerpiece to managing IP addressing at scale.

Reading and Writing Data in DynamoDB

This course looks at how to read and write data to and from DynamoDB tables. We’ll also touch on performance considerations to allow you to get the most possible performance out of your DynamoDB deployment.

Centralizing Operations with AWS Systems Manager

This course introduces the Centralizing Operations Using AWS Systems Manager learning path, designed to help you learn about the AWS Systems Manager and its fundamental features.

Docker: Building services with Compose

Learn to create multi-container applications with Docker Compose. Containers are increasingly becoming more ubiquitous across a range of industries. Compose simplifies the creation and management of container based applications. Learn more in this hands-on lab environment.

Cross-account access in AWS

Users and groups within one AWS account will often need to access resources in another AWS account. Instead of creating separate IAM users and groups in each account, access can be delegated to IAM users and groups in a different AWS account using cross-account IAM roles. Certain services also provide resource-based policies to allow access across accounts. This lab walks through the mechanics of configuring and using cross-account roles and resource-based policies, specifically S3 bucket policies.

CKA Practice Exam - Services and Networking

This practice exam focuses on the Services & Networking domain which is worth 20% of the exam.

CKA Practice Exam - Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration

This practice exam focuses on the Cluster Architecture, Installation & Configuration domain which is worth 25% of the exam.

Introduction to Google Cloud Firestore

Picking the right database solution on Google Cloud Platform can be tricky. There are so many options to choose from, and sometimes the differences between them are not very obvious. In this course, you will learn about Firestore, one of Google’s NoSQL databases. We will cover what it can do, how it differs from some other databases, and how to get started using it.

Introduction to Google Cloud Firestore

Picking the right database solution on Google Cloud Platform can be tricky. There are so many options to choose from, and sometimes the differences between them are not very obvious. In this course, you will learn about Firestore, one of Google’s NoSQL databases. We will cover what it can do, how it differs from some other databases, and how to get started using it.

Docker: Exploring the Dockerfile

Learn how to create Docker images with Dockerfiles. Gaining a mastery of Docker starts with the Dockerfile. Creating and maintaining Dockerfiles requires an understanding of the supported instructions. This hands-on lab explores the structure and usage of Dockerfiles.

Docker: Building Services

Gain further insights into Docker Engine by creating a multi-container service without Compose. This hands-on lab steps through the creation of a three container web application.

Container Security in Azure

This course introduces you to container security, Azure Container Registry authentication, Kubernetes clusters, and Microsoft Defender for Containers.

Amazon EKS Fundamentals

Analyzing Account Activity with AWS CloudTrail

In this lab, you will explore the offerings of the AWS CloudTrail service. You will review and track activity with CloudTrail by observing the event history dashboard and creating a trail. You will also aggregate specific data events into an event data store to form a CloudTrail lake.

Implementing Robust Health Checks in an AWS CodePipeline

AWS CodePipeline is a serverless continuous delivery offering available in the public AWS cloud. Being serverless, you can avoid the technical complexity of creating and managing pipeline infrastructure. Learning how to use AWS CodePipeline to perform actions to meet specific requirements is a skill that DevOps engineers working with AWS will benefit from. In this lab, you will modify an AWS CodePipeline to health check an application after deployment.

Business Value of Microsoft Power Platform

This course takes you through Power Platform, giving you an understanding of what Microsoft Power Platform is and what kind of value it can provide you and your organization.

Troubleshooting Azure Active Directory Connect Synchronization

In this course, we will take a look at how to troubleshoot Azure AD Connect Directory synchronization errors.

Knowledge Check: High Availability (SAP-C02)

Knowledge Check: Migration (SAP-C02)

Planning SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Migrations

In this course, we take you through planning a migration to SharePoint and OneDrive in Microsoft 365.

Overview of Azure Storage

In this course, you’ll learn the basics of Azure Storage, including storage types (blobs, files, queues, and tables), access tiers (hot, cool, and archive), redundancy options, and ways to ingest data into your storage accounts.

Exam: Understanding AWS Storage Services (2 of 2)

Exam: Understanding AWS Storage Services (1 of 2)

Understanding AWS Storage Services

In this learning path, we will introduce these services and discuss their cost and performance implications. You will also be guided through a series of hands-on labs and hands-on lab challenges to gain practical experience working with AWS storage services in real-world scenarios.

Amazon Athena Fundamentals

Interact with PostgreSQL Flexible Server using a Python based Web App

In this hands-on lab, you will interact with PostgreSQL resource using an Azure Web App running a Python-Django application.

Cert Prep Exam - PL-300: Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst

Introduction to Rest APIs

In this course, you will be introduced to a web API architectural style called REST.

Introduction to Databases

In this course, we will introduce you to some common types of databases. Different data problems can be solved in a wide variety of ways, which is why so many different types of databases exist. After learning about a few different types of databases, you’ll be ready to explore specific implementations further.

Planning for Call Quality and Capacity in Teams

In this course, we will look at Microsoft Teams and how organizations can use it to meet their audio conferencing and phone needs.

Building a Machine Learning Model

This course will demonstrate how to build and train your own custom machine learning model from scratch. We cover all steps, including how to set up the environment, how to import and prepare your data, how to build and train the model, as well as how to evaluate its performance and make improvements.

Managing APIs on GCP with Apigee

This learning path will show you how to manage your APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) using the Apigee service.

Building an API With Express

In this course, you will learn how to design an API using the OpenAPI specification, test API routes using Postman, and use Express to build an API backend application.

Introduction to Google Cloud Run

Do you need an easy but reliable way to run your containers? Cloud Run is a fully managed serverless environment for deploying and scaling your web apps and microservices. This course will show you how to deploy your containers to the cloud without requiring the complexity of a Kubernetes cluster.

CKA Practice Exam: Storage

This lab is part of a series of practice exam content for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification. Each practice exam in the series provides you with exam-like tasks to perform in a Kubernetes cluster modeled after the clusters used in the real CKA exam.