Lesson One: Course Introduction

This week constituted an introductory lesson of working with the course materials at testout.com.  Their format of written documentation, videos and test labs followed by an exam for each module was already familiar to me. Since this week was a trial run with practice exams, the documents and videos consisted of introductory information about Windows Server 2012, and the practice exams were a mixture of information from the material given as well as questions based on things we did not yet know; an example of this is when we were asked which Server Manager toolbar button launches Active Directory Domain Services.

The documentation and videos were informative and interesting.  I'm looking forward to learning how to manage Windows Server 2012!

Week One: Introduction

My name is Richard Rowland, and I live in Crystal Lake with my wife and four dogs.  I've been working with computers since 1978, and with the Windows operating system since Windows 3.0 was released in 1990.  For the past 11 years, I've operated my own IT support business, catering to local small businesses and non-profit organizations and have configured many workstations.

I returned to school in 2013 and hope to graduate next spring with an AAS in Computer Science with a concentration in Network Security.  My hope to be able to find a position that helps protect end users from the kinds of data breach and theft that seems so common nowadays.

I am sure I will learn a lot more about Advanced Windows Workstation.  I'm looking forward to a great semester, and wish my classmates the best of luck!