What are we doing? This lab consists of two exercises that teach us how to use Performance Monitor on our Windows 10 system and teaches us how to create a bottleneck to test our log management skills. Why would we want to do this? Sometimes, in order to find a…

What are we doing? This lab consists of two exercises that guide us on how to install and configure a DHCP and DNS server for our network. Why would we want to do this? Managing IP addresses is no easy task, and thinking we could handle it all on our…

What are we doing? This lab consists of two exercises that guide us through troubleshooting scenarios and steps to identify and resolve network connectivity issues using the Windows PowerShell, proxy settings, hosts files and other DNS resources such as BPA. Why would we want to do this? WAN connections are…

What are we doing? This lab consists of one exercise guiding us through the installation and configuration of a hypervisor, called Hyper-V, to enable a virtual switch. Why would we want to do this? Hypervisors help us create virtual machines (VMs). Without them, it would be rather difficult to create a VM and utilize its OS on one of our hardware…

What are we doing? This labs consists of 3 exercises that guides us through configuring custom firewall rules for our Windows devices. …

What are we doing? This labs consists of three exercises that teaches us how to utilize a controlled ARP and DNS spoof attack and how to defend against such MiTM attacks. …

What are we doing? This lab consists of 2 exercises that teaches us how to manually update our Windows system, manage those updates, as well as remove them in case any updates cause problems. …

What are we doing? Part III of this lab consists of 6 exercises that guides us through the configuration of sharing files, of monitoring network-attached devices, as well as configuration of remote access through our network. We’ll first go through a remote access method called FTP, then move onto a monitoring process called SNMP…

What are we doing? Part II of this lab consists of 4 exercises that first introduces us to packet capturing using a third party application called Wireshark, then guides us on how to block specific ports through Windows firewall, and finally introduces us to port scanning using a third party application called Advanced IP…