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Upskill Challenges

Quick Wins with Free “Upskill Challenges”

 UCs are bite-sized, training lessons

 Only 10 – 30 minutes of student time

 Capstone Quiz to check understanding

 And completely free.

What’s an Upskill Challenge (UC)?

A UC is a CTF-style, 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.

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UC – Aircrack-ng

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UC – Wi-Fi Basics

In this first of many Upskill Challenges from wireless penetration testing veteran, Ross Flynn, he e…

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UC – GraphQL

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UC – Getting Started with Visual Studio Code

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UC – RESTful APIs

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UC – Password Spraying

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