Today, I worked on my Computer Hardware lab. I toyed around with some settings, but the loader was not being cooperative with my partitions. Still, I did get a lot of value out of all the personal research I did into the different steps and how they’re supposed to work.
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What I Did Today
Today, I was just working on my Computer Hardware lab. I hit a snag because four primary partitions is a limit that I unknowingly reached and I don’t have anything to modify the existing partitions. Unfortunately, a lot of progress was reset through today. At least there’s one more lab day to see if I …
What I Did Today
Today, I watched two presentations regarding the boot process of a computer and the components of the motherboard and its hardware and firmware that is in charge of the process. It’s not brand new information, but I find value in revisiting topics like this as review. For the rest of the day, we were working …
What I Did Today
Today, I was working on a new lab involving Computer Hardware. Specifically, it’s about making partitions in the hard drive of a virtual machine. I spent most of today completing the pre-lab, including the lab summary, questions, and terms. While waiting for instructor check-in after completing the pre-lab during the final hour, I viewed some …
What I Did Today
Today, we started by watching a video about making a constructive LinkedIn profile. It was an interesting watch that helped me know how to brush up on some of it. I applied it to the second hour during Professional Documents Lab and updated my LinkedIn. For the last hour, we did practice with our Interview …
What I Did Today
Today, we started off with our tech articles for CTT. Mine was about a recent mass outage due to a DNS error causing an issue with AWS (Amazon Web Services) and its cloud servers. Apps and sites like Reddit, Snapchat, and more went down. Even Fortune 500 companies saw their services disrupted. A cautionary tale …
What I Did Today
Today, I worked more on the Disk Imaging lab from a couple of weeks back. This time, I did the full disk image recovery using an image that had the sysprep.exe command run on it. I did this for the first and most of the second hour. For the remainder of the second hour and …
What I Did Today
Today, we started with typing practice. I got one of my best scores in terms of having both high wpm along with near-perfect accuracy at 91wpm at 99% accuracy. For the rest of the first hour, we filled time with practicing more customer service scenarios. For the second hour, we did some more of that, …
What I Did Today
Today, we started with typing practice before filling out the rest of the time before break with a scenario exercise on customer service with examples of bad and good employee customer service. For the second hour, we began our independent challenge. The monthly challenge involving Google Docs and Google Sheets. I actually managed to complete …
What I Did Today
Today, we started with a presentation on follow-ups for job applications with phone calls and emails. The call was tricky, but the email went smoothly. For the second hour, we did our professional job development. I worked on some of my resume and cover letter. For the third hour, we did mock interview practice. Some …