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How to Become a Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineering is one of the topics of the Cisco Networking Academy DevNet Associate training. Definitely, a professional IT function born in the 21st century. Almost all software technology companies have a SRE team. SRE is expanding into non technology companies. SRE skills are backwards compatible with a number of traditional IT roles.

Source
Henri Devieux, How to become an SRE (and why you should) with Henri Devieux, Coursera Community Team
Youtube, 
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcV9mgPoPfA

DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps and Site Reliabality Engineering (SRE) are important parts of the DevNet Associate Certification and the new Netacad DevNet Associate Course. Here is a video from Google where a lot of the concepts are explained with examples.

Topics

• DevOps
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Reduce Organization Silos
• Accept Failure as Normal
• Implement Gradual Change
• Leveraging Tooling & Automation
• Measure Everything
• Service Level Objectives
• Service Level Indicators
• Service Level Agreements
• Toil
• References

Source
Seth Vargo, DevOps Vs. SRE: Competing Standards or Friends? (Cloud Next '19), Google Cloud, YouTube, 10 APR 2019, 44:34
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UyrVqBoCAU&t=4s
→ http://bit.ly/2TRsJXK

99% of malware is sent by either web server or email

Did you know?
More than 99% of malware is sent by either web server or email

 

 

New CyberOps Associate Course

During the summer a new CyberOps Course will be released focussing on the new CyberOps Associate certification. BiASC is ready to support all Cisco Academies and instructors interested in CyberSecurity Operations.

The CyberOps Associate Course aligns with the new CBROPS 200-201 Certification Exam. The major difference between the previous CCNA CyberOps and the CyberOps Associate certification is the shift in the requirement for two exams to certify to one exam. The new, consolidated CyberOps Associate has been updated to cover the latest fundamentals for entry-level cybersecurity operations job roles (SOC analyst).

The course covers: Security concepts, security monitoring, host-based analysis, network intrusion analysis, and security policies and procedures. This includes some new topics such as: access control models for digital assets, malware analysis and interpretation, identifying protected data, and understanding key SOC metrics to expedite detection and containment of breaches. Networking fundamentals have been removed and are part of the CCNA certification.

Remote Labs with CML 2.0

Cisco Modeling Labs are one of the tools to offer remote lab opportunites for students in the follwoing domains:

• CCNP
• Advanced CCNA
• Security
• DevNet

Here is a document describing the requirements to run a virtual lab.

URL: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/cloud_services/cisco_modeling_labs/v200/admin/guide/b_cml_admin_guide_2-0/m_installing_cml.html

 

Instructor Training Campaign (Sep-Dec 2020)

BiASC is involved as an Instructor Training Center in
this project during the second part of 2020

Are you a Cisco Networking Academy Instructor and looking to acquire you Instructor Accreditation for CCNA Routing & Switching, CCNA Cyber Ops, IoT Fundamentals, the new DevNet Associate course, or any of the other NetAcad courses?

Then register now for the free Instructor Training Program! 

• It is free
• It is remote
• It starts in September and runs until December 2020
• You are joining a community of like-minded educators
• There is limited availability, so make sure to confirm your spot

Register for your Instructor Training here

 

Networking Academy Overview for Educators

 

Many new Cisco Networking Academy courses and updated versions are arriving between now and the next academic year. The presentation Overview-networking-academy-for-educators gives you a description of the Cisco Networking Academy portfolio:

• Course Overview from beginner to expert
• Resources for teachers and instructors
• Resources for students
• Talent Bridge Program
• Jobs with employers around the world
• Support and marketing services
• Instructor Training

NetAcad Courses Requiring Instructor Accreditation

Cisco Networking Academy offers more than 30 interactive online courses from beginner to expert level. For some courses it is required that the teacher, trainer or instructors provides evidence that s/he understands the concepts and masters the necessary skills. Here is an update regarding the accreditation requirements. A formal industry certification is not required for Cisco Academy instructors.

Instructor-teaching qualifications vary depending on the course or courses selected. The courses listed below require accreditation or instructor training to ensure quality learning outcomes for your students. We also recommend completing the free online Academy Orientation course for helpful information in setting up courses and using the education platform, NetAcad.com. 

Belgian Cisco Academy Instructor on Video

Twinning Project -- Video Materials

The idea of interconnecting or twinning Cisco NetAcad Labs originates from Pierre de Fooz (BiASC & HEPL Liege, Belgium) who has created a working prototype and has performed tests with students from Belgium, Sweden and France. Here is the preparation of the video recordings in which the TWINING concept and the TWINNING REMOTE LAB CHALLENGE are explained.

 VIDEO 1 : WHAT IS TWINNING ? 

Question 1 . Can you explain a problem you have identified regarding lab equipment in Cisco Academies ? 

We have had the opportunity to work with Cisco Academies from different countries in the last few years. We are collaborating with academies in Belgium, Sweden, France, Nigeria,... 

We have noticed that there is a huge discrepancy between Cisco Academies having enough lab equipment and academies in need... 

We can roughly estimate that thousands of Cisco Academies are lacking suitable equipment. 

How to Write an Ansible Module - DEVNET-2215 - CiscoLive

Ansible plays an important part in the new DevNet Associate Certification. This presentation from CiscoLive gives you a very practical introduction into  Ansible module. The presenter is John McDonough, Cisco Systems
For viewing the training video registration is required

URL: https://www.ciscolive.com/global/on-demand-library.html?search=DEVNET-2215#/session/1563474075340001OHRH

Ansible is a configuration management system that can be used to manage data center devices and controllers, from servers and switches to Cisco Intersight and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure. There are thousands of Ansible modules that may provide all the functionality you need. However, in the event that the module with the functionality you need is not available you can create your own. In this session, you will learn how to create an Ansible module that follows the guidelines set by the Ansible community. This session includes the building of a module from the ground up. You will learn how to set up your Ansible development environment, gain an understanding of module idempotence and how to appropriately employ the basic constructs of an Ansible module. Using the concepts learned in this session you may even want to contribute your module to Ansible for inclusion in a future release.

 

Introduction to Automating ACI with Ansible - DEVNET-1797 - CiscoLive

Ansible plays an important part in the new DevNet Associate Certification. This presentation from CiscoLive gives you a very clear and practical introduction. The presenter is Thomas Renzy, Cisco Systems, Inc
For viewing the training video registration is required

 

URL: https://www.ciscolive.com/global/on-demand-library.html?search=ansible#/session/1564527382872001cBzY

Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a Data Center Architecture with centralized programmability and policy driven capabilities. Ansible is a simple automation language that uses the concept of playbooks to automate configurations of ACI using modules designed for Ansible for configuration provisioning. In this session, we will introduce Ansible and concepts such as playbooks and modules. We will then look at demo of how Ansible can be used to automate ACI provisioning of Tenants as well as looking at deploying a three tier application. We finally will look at scaling ACI playbooks.

BiASC Team Shifting to "No Lockdown"

The Belgian BiASC Team is shifting to "No Lockdown" in the true Cisco NetAcad style. New opportunities are becoming apparent for the next educational period:

• Twinning Challenge making teams at two Cisco Academies work together
• Instructor Workshops to support new ways of working
• Experimenting with 3D Virtual Reality courses
• Preparing for Infrastructure and Network Automation Skills
• Interesting educational materials from RedHat and VMware

Click on the links if you require moore information

From the past period we are proud of the following

• Receiving recognition award form Cisco Systems
• Presenting ideas and best practices in IPD Week regarding remote teaching