Quick Wins with Free “Upskill Challenges”
What’s an Upskill Challenge (UC)?
A UC is a bite-sized lesson from the JHT Team, our courseware developers as well as “friends” of JHT. They are meant to be short and to the point. UCs focus on a single tool or concept and are helpful in quickly providing useful skills that might be prerequisites for other types of educational content on the platform.
UCs should have 5 – 10 sections covering the steps of learning the given tool or skill with each step followed by a single question & answer/flag. A UC should be 10 – 30 minutes of student time and have no VMs.
Future of Upskill Challenges
To accommodate more detailed topics that require virtual environments and don’t quite meet the definition of a course, JHT will eventually make available an Extended UX (or UCx). A UCx can be 30 – 120 minutes of student time, include VMs and videos, and an optional Capstone Challenge to test your knowledge of a multi-step process learned in the UC. A UCx can also be utilized as a live workshop. Details and a release date TBD.
UC – RESTful APIs
In a previous Upskill Challenge, Katie Paxton-Fear took less than 30 minutes to introduce you to the…
UC – APIs
APIs are widely used to enable developers to write efficient code in a timely manner that meets spec…
UC – Reading Binary Data
Coming Soon! This Upskill Challenge by Nordgaren shows the basics of reading binary data especially …
UC – Virtualization Basics: Theory
Coming Soon! Whether you wish to safely deploy malware or do some hands-on cybersecurity learning, t…
UC – Getting Started with Visual Studio Code
This Upskill Challenge by Joe Helle will show you the basics of installing Visual Studio Code on Win…
UC – GraphQL
In a previous Upskill Challenge, Katie Paxton-Fear took less than 30 minutes to introduce you to the…
UC – Wi-Fi Basics
In this first of many Upskill Challenges from wireless penetration testing veteran, Ross Flynn, he e…
UC – Aircrack-ng
Aircrack-ng is a suite of command line tools for monitoring, attacking, testing and cracking Wi-Fi n…
UC – Password Spraying
Humans are notoriously known as the weakest link in cybersecurity. They make mistakes all the time a…