Validates knowledge of security threats, protective controls, risk management and incident response across modern IT environments.
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Validates foundational IT support knowledge across hardware, operating systems, networking, security and troubleshooting common technical problems.
Validates knowledge of networking concepts, implementation, operations, security and troubleshooting for managing and supporting modern networks.
Validates foundational IT knowledge across computing basics, hardware, software, programming concepts, databases and security.
Validates foundational data analytics skills across data concepts, acquisition and preparation, analysis, visualization, reporting and data governance.




