IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[Sonny Bonds]

Sounds like they're being assigned an internal DNS server via the VPN DHCP pool settings that's resolving that site/tool internally once they're connected to the VPN, but that VPN subnet may not be allowed access to that site/tool internally through the firewall? As a workaround/test, while connected to the VPN, you can manually add the site url with the external IP address to the local machine's hosts file and see if the site works.

If it does work I'd just grab the internal IP and send it to the firewall/security team and have them comb through the firewall logs to see if access to that site is being blocked from the VPN subnet.

edit: just saw this post

Yeah, then this is weird.. unless it's a tunnel all vpn that has a separate NAT for the VPN subnet that's being blocked by whoever is hosting the site/app, but that would not make much sense..

Do you know if this application was hosted onsite any point prior? Could be an old DNS entry in whatever DNS server is being handed out by the VPN that needs to be updated. You can do an nslookup against the site url wile connected to the VPN and see what it IP it resolves to, and find out if that's the correct IP.

Turns out in was their VPN. They were using a Chrome extension or something to connect. I had to join one of their network team calls. After 30 minutes of them not needing me, I put in the chat, "I have to go" and bailed out. It was almost 6 PM and I still had some of my own work to do. They eventually figured out the issue.

 

[BlaxOps]

When I read through this thread and see people talk about projects I still don't really understand what that means, I under stand the concepts but I can't think of what I can put on my Github or something that would be interesting and fun to work on.

Can someone point me to where they got examples and ideas from? Anything pertaining to AWS services, or Python, or Docker.

Simple projects:

1. Create a webpage that will take input from a form and add it to a database. Use the webpage to modify or delete records.
2. Create a script that will populate a page based off form input and an API file.
3. Create a script that automates wordpress updates via SSH

 

[Uno Venova]

Simple projects:

1. Create a webpage that will take input from a form and add it to a database. Use the webpage to modify or delete records.
2. Create a script that will populate a page based off form input and an API file.
3. Create a script that automates wordpress updates via SSH

Appreciate you man, I’m gonna try 1 and 3 this week.

 

[HoldThisL]

Networking and Security really the backbone of everything.

Networking kicking my ass

 

[Data-Hawk]

Passed AZ-900. Onto AZ-104

 

[Kufi]

Passed AZ-900. Onto AZ-104

What is on the test and how easy was. I plan on taking mine soon.

 

[Data-Hawk]

What is on the test and how easy was. I plan on taking mine soon.

The test wasn't that bad, only thing I don't like about the Cert is the wide variety of topics and its hard to get hands on experience with all of them( the best way I remember things ). I made the mistake of on and off studying for it. Like study for 2 weeks, put it off for 2 weeks etc. I did this for about 2 months lol. Then I crammed for 2 days before the test and passed with a 730. If you study for like 3 weeks straight, you should have no problems.

Resources I used:

WhizLabs ( Primary, Once I started hitting 90% on all of the practice tests, I took the test ).

Adam Marczak Youtube channel on Az-900 is pretty good.


MS Documentation/Az-900 Learning Path is pretty good also - Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals - Learn ( Almost all topics from here are on the test )

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

AZ-900 felt like an Azure catalog marketing exercise. It's not that difficult, just make sure you don't add hypotheticals in while reading the question and answer. It sounds stupid, but you don't want to reason through the test, but regurgitate exactly what they want.

 

[klientel]

When I read through this thread and see people talk about projects I still don't really understand what that means, I under stand the concepts but I can't think of what I can put on my Github or something that would be interesting and fun to work on.

Can someone point me to where they got examples and ideas from? Anything pertaining to AWS services, or Python, or Docker.

Don't overthink it, figure out who you are trying to impress and tailor your projects to what you think they would find useful.

You can even take existing projects and "enhance" them. For instance my main project when I applied to my current role was focused on Kubernetes (EKS specifically), and I spent a week trying to figure out a problem to solve. To do that I basically just went on places like reddit and the official forums and looked for shyt people complained about or had problems with. I ended up with a simple script that changed DNS configs to get other popular DNS projects to work together a little better. Then after that I had a python script that generated cloudformation templates(they are a bytch to create manually) for EKS. That was basically it....nothing was complicated, and when it got the the interview phase I was asked about any projects I worked on and I walked him through what I had.

Dude wasn't impressed from a technical standpoint AT ALL, I could definitely tell. But he did like that I was focusing on real world problems. And although he ended up having MUCH better ways to address the same problems I tried to tackle, it showed I was "forward thinking" and trying to solve an ACTUAL issue. Remember that's a key thing when you want to show off a project, you have to be making something better, somehow....or atleast trying

 

[RealCrownHeights]

Back tracking through this thread and definitely don't want to miss gems (I'm on pg 171) I'm sure this has been touched on, but for Cloud Security, would yall recommend I do Sec+-CCNA into a NOC job then AWS CSA and use Aws created projects to get an entry-level engineer role?

Reading this thread almost made me jump into the train tracks




but I'm going to push and do this shyt

I think I finally narrowed it down to I want to do cloud security, I think I won't see that discussed until probably pages 1000 and more because it's the hot field right now.

 

[Sonny Bonds]

@Boxing&Jesus I think that sounds like a good plan. The most difficult thing will be getting that first job.

 

[RealCrownHeights]

Any new torrent sites to get vm work station? or gift hub? i have a mac MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports) and Ipad but I know I probably need an hp or dell right?

 

[RealCrownHeights]

@Boxing&Jesus I think that sounds like a good plan. The most difficult thing will be getting that first job.

Yes, I will try to do home labs and VM work stations to supplement that experience with the certs. I'm even in a non profit and I spoke to the head of IT and he said there are system admin positions available and they prefer to hire in house but I would need experiance.

I know the old torrent site I used to use is down, are there any other sites where I can get free labs?

Need to get to the bag asap this year idc If I have to sacrifice extracirrculars

 

[DonDadda]

Anyone here passed the RedHat RHCE 8 exam? looking for the best materials to study from

 

[Rhyme n Tekniq]

Anyone here passed the RedHat RHCE 8 exam? looking for the best materials to study from

Purchase a membership on oreilly and use this course. Sander Van Vugt is thee Linux guy, I used one of his courses to pass the RHCSA
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I used one of his courses to pass the RHCSA


Also , there's pluralsight

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