Architectural scenarios & lab guides

The lab work, written down.

Every pack is the scenario set our instructors teach from - a topology, the brief an engineer would actually be handed, the configuration, and the verification. Written by the people who run the batches, for students who want to practise on their own time.

CCNA

Associate level

The scenarios behind the CCNA syllabus - addressing, routing, switching, security and services - written as jobs a network engineer is actually handed, with the topology and verification steps for each.

ENCOR

Enterprise core

Enterprise core scenarios: OSPF and BGP design, overlays, wireless, and the troubleshooting drills that separate a pass from a comfortable pass.

SCOR

Security core

Security core labs across firewalls, VPNs, identity and endpoint - the configurations, the verification, and what breaks when they are wrong.

Palo Alto

Network security

Next-generation firewall build-outs: policy, App-ID, decryption, GlobalProtect and Panorama, in the order a real deployment goes.

Check Point

Firewall administration

Gateway and management-server scenarios - policy layers, NAT, VPN communities, logging and upgrades - for CCSA and CCSE preparation.

Cyber security

Defensive & offensive

Blue-team and red-team exercises side by side: detection engineering and log analysis on one page, the attack that produced those logs on the other.

Ethical hacking

Penetration testing

Recon to reporting, mapped to the CEH domains: enumeration, exploitation, privilege escalation, pivoting, and how to write the finding up so someone fixes it.

Linux

Server & administration

Build-and-break exercises for RHCSA and RHCE work: storage, systemd, networking, SELinux, containers and the automation that keeps them consistent.

Windows Server

Administration

Directory services, DNS, certificates, failover and hybrid identity - the labs that make an interview question about AD replication feel routine.

AWS

Cloud solutions

Architecture scenarios with the console and the CLI side by side: VPC design, IAM, scaling, storage tiers and the cost decision behind each one.

Python

Programming & scripting

Exercises that go from the language to something useful at work - parsing device output, calling APIs, and automating the task you currently do by hand.

Full stack development

Web & mobile

A project built the way a team builds one: API, data layer, front end, auth and deployment, with the commit-by-commit brief for each stage.

Printed lab guides

Some tracks also have a bound guide. The CCNA one is Applied Networking Industry Best Practices.

Included with the course

Enrolled students already have the material for their track, plus 24/7 lab access on Skillopia. These packs are for people studying on their own.

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