You’ve been recently hired as a help desk associate to a startup SMB(Small-Medium Business) tech company. Upon the first two weeks, you immediately realize the way IT assets are being managed is extremely outdated. Gone are the days of excel proficiency for equipment management amongst your workforce. The company has…

Our engineers from our various sites need a way to share data center system information from workstations that are locked down from the internet, to their daily reports which reside in SharePoint. We’ve hardened security so usb slots on the facility workstations are disabled, so thumb-drives won’t work. …

If you’ve ever launched a wordpress site, or know someone that has, there is a level of difficulty associated with getting it up and running. However, if you’re like me– you search for easier ways to do the same tedious tasks. Instead of traditional ways (launching a server, installing wordpress…

Let’s pretend you are new to AWS and asked by your manager to expand the disk size of one of the production servers. If you’re a cloud engineer, system administrator, etc.. You may find yourself in this predicament more often than you can count (possibly). …

Thanks for reading , and I appreciate your well wishes and feedback. I agree, it's a work in progress. Hopefully they work with the necessary channels to improve the testing experience, whether online or in person.

Disclaimer: This article is not to bash or degrade, but to merely provide recounts from my experience with Pearson Vue and provide feedback on improvements that could be made to enrich the end user experience. A normalcy in our society is to dedicate hours — months to a specialty that…

A quick excerpt on how I passed the AWS SysOps Administrator Associate exam (SOA-C01). Let me start by giving the disclaimer, it took two attempts to get a PASS. Yes, you heard that right — two times! First Attempt I started by bench-marking my knowledge by taking a practice exam from Tutorial…

What is RDS? Amazon relational database service (RDS) is a service offered by AWS that database connectivity through the internet. Why would you want RDS? Because Amazon RDS takes over many of the difficult and tedious management tasks of a relational database: When you buy a server, you get CPU, memory, storage, and…

Description During this tutorial, I will show how you can mount an Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) to an Amazon Elastic Compute(EC2) instance. When using the launch wizard we are presented with all of the necessary specifications required to launch an instance. …