Today I gave the new students an orientation of the class. Alan brought his transition snacks and we were all joyous.
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What I did today
Today, the CTT class enjoyed a potluck to celebrate our 2nd to the last day of class. Alex shared one of Professor Messer’s videos discussing ports. After the class watched the video Alex discussed how these ports relate to CTP’s own server running a virtual machine that provides the DHCP, DNS and Active Directory services …
What I did today 03/27
I forgot to do my What I did today yesterday so I am doing it today 🙂 Alex discussed more about Wireshark and Nmap. Wireshark is a packet analyzer. Packets is how information is packaged and sent across the network internally or externally. Nmap is a network scanner that can scan network ports. However, it …
What I did today
Today, we did a review of Networking concepts. We also did a practice A+ test with Alex where everyone got a chance to figure out or guess multiple choice type hardware questions. It was a collaborative effort and we got a 100% in the test. The review refreshed the different concepts that was discussed and …
What I did today
Today we did a Mock Interview with Mechanics Bank. My interview went pretty good and I got good feedback and pointers from my interviewer Sharon. She gave me her card and will try to hook me to get coding experience from people she knows. I will update my resume to reflect what she pointed out.
What I did today
Today Alex introduced Ninite to the class. Ninite is an automatic installer for applications such as browsers and programs including WinDirStat and Putty. We tried out WinDirStat which is an application that shows how files occupy the storage space. Putty is network connection tool which is especially useful in looking at router and switch configurations …
What I did today
Today I worked with Frank to set up our second network for the lab assignment. I was not here yesterday so there was a lot of catching up to do task wise. We had to use a project computer that re-images off the network image. However, we did not connect it to the CTP network …
What I did today
Today for the Lab Assignment we were asked to create a network by rehabilitating a Project PC and using that as a host. I also had my one-on-one check-in with Alex. As always it was an interesting and fruitful conversation. Unfortunately, I had to leave early to go an appointment and was unable to start …
What I did today
Today Alex shared a lot of utilities and tools that we can use. Tools such as Bar code readers and QR code scanners that are useful for technicians to verify information and and record keeping. Even taking pictures using a smartphone to document and create a timeline of actions for reference. Utilities that help in …
What I did today
Today we had two assignments assigned to us at Employment Services. First was to answer 3 Behavioral interview questions using the Star method and a Company Research Assignment on Mechanics Bank. Mechanics Bank will be doing the mock interview for us at CTP on the 22nd. Also, we practiced the additional behavioral questions with different …