Category Archives: What I Did Today

Today I explained the class to a new student.

Got new students started in the CTT class.

Here is what I did today. This and that.

Today I gave the new students an orientation of the class. Alan brought his transition snacks and we were all joyous.

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 …

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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 …

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Today I learned more about nMap. It is a network scanner tool that allows you to see what devices are connected to a network, as well as what ports the devices have open. Other variants could be used maliciously to scan the public domain, searching for possible vulnerabilities within networks. There are scans being constantly …

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Today we had a long lecture and we did a lot of review. We practiced identifying different ports. We drew and labelled a network model. I also learned about the seven layers of the OSI model, but that is something that I’m still very unfamiliar with.

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 …

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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.