I will check this out also David. Thank you!

Hi Benjamin - this forum is for questions regarding the courses themselves. For example, questions about what you learned in A+.

I would recommend you use the chat support (bubble) feature of our website. That is the support team geared for questions not relating to the technical content of our classes.

Thanks so much.

Might be a potential course down the road.

There is not currently a SC-200 labs on our 2024 roadmap. Please submit this as a request via the chat-bubble on our website. This will ensure that the request is formally logged and sent to the right team for development consideration. Thank you.

@wes-bryan thank you for your response this helped me a lot

For this one it would appear we have to trust the official curriculum. (ISC)2 CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Study Guide, 9th Edition and its previous editions. As far as I can tell, this functional order of controls was not pulled from a standards document.

The area you seem to be looking for would be more in the realm of GRC (Governance Risk, and Compliance). Though you will get introductions to this area from just about every vendor certification. It will depend on the level of depth you desire. With ISC2, CISSP, this focus is more on management of security in the IT space and SCCP does go into more depth about managing security within systems. Neither is easy and requires much study and expense.

ISACA also has the CRISC certification. Again, more aligned with your stated goals. We offer you a chance to look at all three within our site and compare which may be the path you choose to walk down.

You too, @Mustafa-Mohamud!

Worked like a charm, Anthony! Thank you kindly, Sir!

@Anthony-Sequeira-0 Thanks Anthony! I'll check them out.

Yes - completely agree @SIMON-TAPLIN

Hi Chris! What a tricky one. To confirm that the question is correct, I labbed this up on my Windows machine. As you can see - the practice exam question is correct. The DIR command will find subdirectories named FILECHK.* as well. Here are the results of my labbing:

C:>dir C:\MYDOCS\FILECHK.* /S
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is D033-816F

Directory of C:\MYDOCS

03/04/2024 09:43 AM <DIR> FILECHK.FOLDER
03/04/2024 09:43 AM 0 FILECHK.txt
1 File(s) 0 bytes

Directory of C:\MYDOCS\FOLDER2

03/04/2024 09:44 AM 0 FILECHK.bmp
03/04/2024 09:44 AM <DIR> FILECHK.private
1 File(s) 0 bytes

Total Files Listed: 2 File(s) 0 bytes 2 Dir(s) 223,950,413,824 bytes free

@Keifer-Rector, you mentioned "realistic," remember to set goals that are achievable (based on the time you have). Try not to put too much pressure on yourself. Focus on them one at a time. I look forward to hearing from you.

@Numair-Zaheer,
These 4 assignments, all based on a presented-case study:

3 are 60 minute presentations 1 is 90 minute presentation

These four assignments cover five assessment criteria:

Relate the ITIL guiding principles to all aspects of Digital and IT Strategy Use a digital positioning tool to determine the appropriate position for a digital organization Assess strategic approaches for digital organizations Apply the approaches to strategy coordination and implementation Know how to analyze the VUCA factors and address them in a digital and IT strategy

You can earn up to 40 points across the 4 activities and you 30 points to pass this assessment section so that you can sit for the exam. I do not believe that word count is a requirement. These assignments will be graded on the following:
Completeness of the presentations and the quality of the information presented, etc.

Hey, thanks for your reply. Sure, the questions are:

How many pins are on an EIA/TIA-232 WAN cable interface?
How many pins are on a V.35 WAN cable interface?
How many pins are on an EIA/TIA-530 WAN cable interface?
How many pins are on an EIA/TIA-449 WAN cable interface?
How many pins are on an X.21 WAN cable interface?

and potentially Which device connects the 4-wire cable of the ISP WAN and the router? I've seen some information about CSU/DSU but can't recall what exactly.

Thanks!

br,
Aleks

Hey @batuhan-yeşil great question, our learners are encouraged to take notes while watching the videos. Some of our viewers will watch the video once, then take notes when watching the video a second time. The notes are to help guide the shows topics throughout the episode. There are certain courses that will have greater depth to the notes and there are shows where the notes are like @Andrew-Despres has mentioned (a bulleted list to help the Edutainers move the show along). If need any help with a concept, you can post it here to the forum, or you can email me if you would prefer to get assistance that route! Thank you for watching and I look forward to hearing from you!

Hey @Andrew-Kelsey great question, here is some reference information: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/modeling-labs/index.html

It's time for another bonus episode!

This will be episode 2.1: Windows, Virtio, QEMU...Oh my!

As I mentioned in the previous episode, there are some special things to keep in mind when it comes to installing Windows in Proxmox. After going through the video "Launching a Windows VM in Proxmox" by Learn Linux TV I was able to understand how to use Virtio drivers and get the QEMU agents working.

Before we begin, you might be thinking, "Why should I do this? I was able to get my VM installed no issues without these steps." The short answer has been summed up right within the Proxmox documentation:

"VirtIO Drivers (download link here) are paravirtualized drivers for kvm/Linux. In short, they enable direct (paravirtualized) access to devices and peripherals for virtual machines using them, instead of slower, emulated, ones. "

What this all means is by using Virtio, you are using "Paravirtualization" which allows for better performance for your VM which gives the VM direct access to the devices and peripherals connected to the VM as-opposed to emulated drivers which are slower.

"Whats a QEMU agent? Is that important?"

QEMU is an abbreviation that means Q(uick) EMU(lator) which is a free and open-source emulator that emulates a computers processor through dynamic binary translationand provides a set of different hardware and device models for the machine, enabling it to run a variety of guest operating systems. It can interoperate with Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) to run virtual machines at near-native speed. QEMU can also do emulation for user-level processes, allowing applications compiled for one architecture to run on another.

Now with that out of the way we can finally begin deploying a Windows VM correctly using Proxmox!

First thing you you will want to do is actually download the Virtio drivers. I put a link earlier in the thread. Like I mentioned in previous episodes you can add these ISO files easily right within Promox and download them within the client itself by clicking on the "Download from URL" button and pasting the URL:

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Now that the Virtio ISO is downloaded, let create a new VM by clicking the Create VM button in the top right corner of our Proxmox instance. We can mostly go through the same installation process as I mentioned before but I will mark any changes that may need to be made below.

The first difference is on the OS tab. In this tab there is a checkbox to add an additional drive for our Virtio ISO. Super handy! Click the checkbox and find the location where you Virtio ISO:

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Next on the System tab, make sure to hit the checkbox for the QEMU agent. This will make sure the agent will be enabled when we install the software:

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Next on Disk, select SCSI for your disk and select Write Back for the Cache option. Write back should help increase performance:

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And that was the last difference for the Create VM portion. All of these changes are the recommended settings that Proxmox dictates. Now, because we chose the option to add an addtional drive for Virtio drivers, we do not need to do anything else with our VM, we can now start it. Make sure that the virtual DVD drive with the Server 2022 ISO file is first in the boot order! Your IDE drive order should look like the image below. Notice that my Server 2022 drive is set to 0 and my Virtio drive is set to 1:

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Please note, you might need to smash your "Any key" (mines spacebar) as soon as you boot your VM. If you don't you will miss the option to continue to boot to Windows and then your VM will move to the next device which will be your Virtio DVD drive.

Follow the steps to install Windows until you get to the disk selection screen. You will notice that there are no drives to select! This is where the Virtio ISO comes in. Select the Load Drive button in the bottom left side:

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On the load driver prompt select Browse and the go to the follow folder: Virtio ISO> viosci> 2k22> amd64

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You should now see a Redhat VIRTIO SCSI pass-through controller driver. Click next to install the driver. After this driver is installed your hard drive will now be select-able in the Windows Installer! You can now complete your installation of Server 2022.

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Once you're logged into your new Server 2022 installation, you will most likely notice some drivers missing if you open you Device Manager. Below is what my device manager looks like after a fresh install:

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You can see that I am missing an Ethernet Controller, PCI Device and a PCI Simple Communications Controller. We will be using the Virtio ISO disk to install these missing drivers. Simply right-click on the driver you want to install and click on Update Drive, Browse my Computer, and then Browse again and find your Virtio ISO drive. If you don't see it check the hardware settings of the VM in Proxmox. You should be able to select the Virtio drive (in my case my E drive) and Windows will search all subfolders as long as that checkbox is selected:

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Click next and within seconds your driver will be installed!

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Lastly, we will install the QEMU agent. This is also fairly simple to complete. Just follow the steps below:

Open File Explorer Open the Virtio drive Find the folder called "guest-agent". Select the proper version to install. In my case I am selecting the 64-bit version.

And that's it! You have now successfully gone through the steps to install Server 2022 using Virtio drivers and a QEMU agent following the Proxmox recommendations.

For my next episode(s) I want to go through the Networking and Firewall settings within Proxmox. I want to do this to isolate my Homelab and do some networking tricks within my Homelabs own subnet. Make a server run NAT so all traffic goes through it etc etc. If you have any questions or comments on this last bonus episode please feel free to post a comment! I am hoping to make these updates more frequent as long as my work schedule and sickness in my home cooperate.

Thanks again for going on this adventure with me. Keep learning cool things nerdos!

Have a great weekend!

Hi,

I am glad I have come across this post. I am currently studying for my MS900 exam. The questions that I am receiving in the practice tests are of much higher/complex/standard than what I have studied for.

Where you stated, "It gets quite confusing as you don't know if you are well prepared for the exam or not. Would really appreciate an answer!" resonates with me a lot.

Will the MS900 exam have questions of this complexity?

Regards,
Ruban

Thanks @Anthony-Sequeira-0. It wasn't down long, but FELT like forever. I need my content!