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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

 Quiz to check understanding

 And completely free.

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 are completely self-contained learning modules comprised of 5 – 10 sections covering the steps of learning the given tool or skill followed by a quiz to test comprehension. No outside research is required to pass the quiz. A UC is only 10 – 30 minutes of student time and has no VMs.

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Just Hacking Training (JHT) - UC - Quantum Computing

UC – Quantum Computing

Ellie Daw introduces you to the strange and probabilistic world of quantum computing. Already know t…

Just Hacking Training (JHT) - UC - Virtualization

UC – Virtualization

Whether you wish to safely deploy malware or do some hands-on cybersecurity learning, there will be …

Just Hacking Training (JHT) - UC - Penetration Testing Methodology

UC – Penetration Testing Methodology

A penetration testing methodology can be thought of as a recipe or blueprint, providing the steps re…

Just Hacking Training (JHT) - UC - Vulnerability Management

UC – Vulnerability Management

All Roads Lead to VulnMan! Eric Johnson is passionate about Vulnerability Management and for good re…

Just Hacking Training (JHT) - UC - Password Spraying

UC – Password Spraying

Humans are notoriously known as the weakest link in cybersecurity. They make mistakes all the time a…

Just Hacking Training (JHT) - UC - Aircrack-ng

UC – Aircrack-ng

Aircrack-ng is a suite of command line tools for monitoring, attacking, testing and cracking Wi-Fi n…

Just Hacking Training (JHT) - UC - Wi-Fi Basics

UC – Wi-Fi Basics

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

Just Hacking Training (JHT) - UC - GraphQL

UC – GraphQL

In a previous Upskill Challenge, Katie Paxton-Fear took less than 30 minutes to introduce you to the…

Just Hacking Training (JHT) - UC - Getting Started with Visual Studio Code

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 – RESTful APIs

UC – RESTful APIs

In a previous Upskill Challenge, Katie Paxton-Fear took less than 30 minutes to introduce you to the…

UC – APIs

UC – APIs

APIs are widely used to enable developers to write efficient code in a timely manner that meets spec…

UC – Reading Binary Data

UC – Reading Binary Data

Coming Soon! This Upskill Challenge by Nordgaren shows the basics of reading binary data especially …

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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