Private corporate batches, live online cohorts and 1-on-1 mentoring in vendor-neutral IT certification tracks — A+, Network+, Security+, Linux+, Cloud+, CySA+ and PenTest+ — taught as working skills first and exam preparation second — taught by a practitioner who runs it in production.
20 years across DevOps, SRE and Security · 10,000+ engineers trained · Trained teams at JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Nokia and the World Bank
Principal DevOps Engineer & Architect
Rajesh teaches the CompTIA tracks as working skills first: subnetting done on paper until it is automatic, a documented troubleshooting methodology applied to faults that are genuinely broken, cryptography and identity explained through what actually protects a session, and incident response walked through end to end rather than listed as phases. Twenty years across DevOps, SRE and Security and 10,000+ engineers trained mean the Security+, CySA+ and PenTest+ material is taught against how attacks and investigations really run — log evidence, SIEM correlation, scoping and reporting — with exam technique layered on top: objectives mapping, performance-based question practice, scaled scoring and the continuing-education renewal cycle.
Twenty years across DevOps, SRE and Security, in principal and architect roles at PayPay, SoftwareAG, ServiceNow, JDA Software, Intuit, Adobe and others. He has trained engineers at JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Nokia, the World Bank, VMware, Oracle, Mercedes-Benz and Airbus — more than 10,000 people personally. He teaches what he runs, not what he reads.
You are booked with a named engineer, and that is who turns up. Marketplaces and larger providers rotate whoever is free, so the person who sold you the agenda is rarely the person teaching it.
The same trainer is available for the next engagement, which matters when a team builds on what it learned last time.
Your batch is assigned a named trainer before it starts, and that is who teaches it. See the full faculty.
Engagements are matched on the tool, not the calendar. For CompTIA that means a trainer who has run it in production — vendor-neutral IT certification tracks — A+, Network+, Security+, Linux+, Cloud+, CySA+ and PenTest+ — taught as working skills first and exam preparation second — rather than whoever is free that week. You are told who is teaching before you commit, and that person is on the discovery call that shapes the agenda.
Where a batch is large enough to need a second trainer, the pairing is declared up front. The lead trainer stays accountable for the syllabus and the assessment either way.
Principal DevOps Engineer & Architect
Twenty years across DevOps, SRE and Security in principal and architect roles at PayPay, SoftwareAG, ServiceNow, JDA Software, Intuit, Adobe, IBM/Emptoris, Ness, MindTree and Accenture. He has trained more than 10,000 engineers personally, at organisations including JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Nokia, the World Bank, VMware, Oracle, Mercedes-Benz and Airbus. He teaches what he runs, not what he reads.
Teams of 8–30
Custom agenda, your timezone, onsite or online, NDA-friendly.
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A private instructor and a curriculum built around your goal.
₹99,999Individuals who want peers
Scheduled batch, max 8 to 10 hours of live instruction.
₹34,999A private batch starts with a discovery call. We look at the stack you actually run — the CI system, the cloud, the constraints — and map the agenda onto it, so examples use your topology rather than a generic one.
Delivery is onsite at your premises, live online, or hybrid, scheduled around your release calendar rather than ours. Batches run 8 to 30 engineers.
Every attendee leaves with recordings, slides, lab repositories and a completion certificate. You receive an attendance and assessment report. Invoicing supports PO and GST.
Talk to us about a private CompTIA batchCompTIA is a non-profit trade association that publishes vendor-neutral IT certifications. Vendor-neutral is the operative word: where a Cisco or Microsoft credential validates competence in one company's products, a CompTIA certification validates the underlying concepts — subnetting, authentication, the boot process, the incident lifecycle — in a form that transfers across whatever equipment an employer happens to own.
The portfolio is arranged as a progression. ITF+ is an entry orientation. A+ covers hardware, operating systems, mobile devices, and the troubleshooting methodology that underpins every support role. Network+ covers topologies, addressing and subnetting, routing and switching concepts, wireless, and network troubleshooting. Security+ is the widely required baseline security credential, covering threats, cryptography, identity and access management, secure architecture and governance. Above those sit Linux+, Cloud+, Server+, and the cybersecurity specialisations CySA+ for security operations and analysis and PenTest+ for vulnerability assessment and testing.
The exams themselves have a specific shape that changes how you prepare. Each is defined by a published objectives document that rotates roughly every three years, so a certification is always tied to a version. Questions mix multiple choice with performance-based items that put the candidate in a simulated console or configuration screen, which is why memorising a question bank tends to fail. Most CompTIA certifications expire after three years and are renewed through continuing education rather than by resitting.
CompTIA credentials function as a hiring filter more than as a demonstration of mastery, and that is precisely why they matter. Security+ in particular appears as a stated requirement in a large share of government, defence-adjacent, managed-service and enterprise job specifications, and in those environments a candidate without it is frequently not read at all. For someone entering or moving within IT, the certification is the thing that gets the conversation started.
For employers, the driver is usually contractual or regulatory. Baseline security certification for staff with privileged access is written into many customer contracts and compliance frameworks, which turns training into a scheduled obligation rather than a discretionary spend. Managed service providers and system integrators bid work on the certification profile of the team they can field.
The risk is training that optimises for the wrong thing. A batch prepared entirely on practice questions produces people who pass and then cannot subnet on a whiteboard, read a packet capture, or work through a troubleshooting methodology under pressure. Because the exams include performance-based items and because the job starts the day after the exam, the useful approach is to teach the skill properly and treat the certification as the assessment it is designed to be.
Getting the sequence right before spending a rupee on a voucher. What each certification actually validates, which employers ask for which, how the objectives versioning works, and how the continuing-education renewal model changes the long-term cost of a certification portfolio.
Topics: The CompTIA portfolio: core, infrastructure and cybersecurity tracks · ITF+, A+, Network+, Security+, Linux+, Cloud+, Server+, CySA+, PenTest+ · Which certification employers actually require, and where · Objectives documents and exam versioning · Exam format: multiple choice and performance-based items · Scaled scoring and what a pass mark means · Three-year validity and continuing-education renewal · Building a certification plan for an individual or a team
The foundation everything else assumes. System components and how they interact, storage and memory, peripherals, printers and mobile devices, and above all the six-step troubleshooting methodology applied to faults that have actually been broken rather than described.
Topics: CPU, memory, motherboard, power and cooling · Storage: HDD, SSD, NVMe, RAID levels and failure modes · Peripherals, displays, printers and connectors · Mobile device hardware and configuration · Virtualisation basics on the client · The CompTIA troubleshooting methodology · Diagnosing boot, power, display and storage failures · Safety, disposal and documentation practices
Windows, Linux and macOS from an administrator's seat. Installation and imaging, the command line on each platform, file systems and permissions, user and account management, updates and patching, and the operational security practices expected of anyone with endpoint access.
Topics: Operating system installation, imaging and recovery · Windows administration: management consoles, registry, services · Linux and macOS fundamentals for support staff · Command-line tools on each platform · File systems, permissions and ownership · User accounts, groups and least privilege · Patching, updates and driver management · Malware symptoms, removal and endpoint hardening · Backup and recovery on the endpoint
The module that most decides whether the rest of the curriculum lands. Models and protocols, addressing and subnetting practised until it is fast, switching and routing concepts, wireless, network services, and structured troubleshooting from the physical layer upward.
Topics: OSI and TCP/IP models and where each protocol sits · Ethernet, cabling, topologies and physical infrastructure · IPv4 addressing, subnetting and VLSM · IPv6 addressing and transition mechanisms · Switching: VLANs, trunking and spanning tree concepts · Routing concepts, static and dynamic routing · DNS, DHCP, NTP and network services · Wireless standards, channels and security · Network troubleshooting with ping, traceroute, dig, netstat and captures
The baseline security credential, taught as practice rather than vocabulary. Threats and attack types, cryptography and PKI, identity and access management, secure network and host architecture, and the governance, risk and compliance material that carries real exam weight.
Topics: CIA triad, threat actors and attack vectors · Malware, phishing, social engineering and physical attacks · Cryptography: symmetric, asymmetric, hashing and key exchange · PKI, certificates, TLS and certificate lifecycle · Authentication, MFA, authorisation models and directory services · Secure network design: segmentation, firewalls, proxies, VPN and zero trust · Host, application and mobile hardening · Risk management, policies, frameworks and compliance · Business continuity, disaster recovery and resilience
Linux at the level every infrastructure and security role assumes. Shell fluency, file systems and permissions, package and service management, storage, networking, scripting for repeatable work, and reading logs and system state when something is wrong.
Topics: Shell fundamentals, redirection, pipes and text processing · File system hierarchy, permissions, ownership and special bits · Users, groups, sudo and privilege boundaries · Package management across distributions · systemd: units, services, timers and journal · Storage: partitions, file systems, LVM and mounts · Networking configuration and diagnostics · Bash scripting for administrative tasks · Logging, monitoring and troubleshooting a broken system · SELinux and AppArmor in outline
Cloud as infrastructure rather than as marketing. Service and deployment models, hypervisors and virtual machine management, compute, storage and networking in a cloud account, identity and access control, and the monitoring and cost basics that operations teams are held to.
Topics: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, and public, private and hybrid deployment · Hypervisors, virtual machines and containers compared · Provisioning compute, storage and networking in a cloud account · Cloud identity and access management · Storage types, redundancy and backup in the cloud · Network security groups, subnets and routing in a VPC · Monitoring, logging and alerting · Capacity, scaling and elasticity · Cost awareness and common misconfigurations
Applying the security material to a running network. Hardening network devices, access control and segmentation in practice, monitoring traffic for anomalies, and troubleshooting the security controls that break legitimate access as often as they stop attacks.
Topics: Hardening switches, routers and wireless infrastructure · Access control lists, segmentation and micro-segmentation · Firewall rule design and review · VPN, remote access and secure administration · IDS and IPS placement and tuning · Traffic analysis and anomaly detection · Network access control and device posture · Troubleshooting when the control is the cause
The analyst's job. Log collection and normalisation, SIEM correlation and rule tuning, triage and prioritisation of alerts, threat intelligence used properly, and the incident response lifecycle from detection through containment to a written post-incident report.
Topics: Security monitoring architecture and telemetry sources · Log collection, normalisation and retention · SIEM correlation rules, tuning and false positive management · Alert triage, prioritisation and escalation · Threat intelligence and indicators of compromise · MITRE ATT&CK as an analysis framework · Incident response lifecycle: prepare, detect, contain, eradicate, recover · Digital evidence handling and chain of custody basics · Threat hunting with a hypothesis · Post-incident review and reporting
Finding weaknesses within scope and rules of engagement, reporting them usefully, then the exam technique layer for every track: mapping revision to the published objectives, working performance-based questions under time, and planning the sitting and the renewal cycle.
Topics: Engagement scoping, rules of engagement and legal constraints · Reconnaissance and enumeration · Vulnerability scanning, validation and false positives · Exploitation concepts and safe demonstration · Web application and network testing basics · Reporting: findings, risk rating and remediation advice · Objectives mapping and gap-driven revision · Performance-based questions: approach and timing · Booking, testing centre versus online proctoring, and retake rules · Continuing education and renewal planning
We rebuild the agenda around the tools you actually run.
Request a custom agendaWork through seeded hardware, boot, operating system and network faults using the CompTIA troubleshooting methodology, documenting each step as a service desk would require.
Subnet an address space against stated requirements, build the network, then diagnose four failures seeded at the physical, addressing, routing and service layers.
Take an unhardened server and workstation to a written security baseline — accounts, patching, firewall, encryption, logging — and prove each control with evidence.
Fix a Linux system with a failed service, a full file system, misconfigured permissions and a broken network configuration, using only the command line and the logs.
Deploy a small cloud environment, then audit a supplied account for exposed storage, over-permissive identity policies and open security groups, and remediate each.
Triage a mixed alert queue, correlate events in a SIEM, investigate one genuine intrusion and produce a written incident report with a defensible timeline.
Sit a full-length timed mock including performance-based items, then convert the score breakdown into a revision plan mapped directly to the published exam objectives.
Billed yearly at ₹9,996
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Full program, private instructor
8–30 engineers · custom agenda · onsite or online · PO and GST invoicing
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Basics explanation was exemplary from Rajesh where he dealt with complicated topics to be simple. Great learning stuff personally for me.
Very detailed explanation and has lots of patience in attending the questionnaire. Thanks again for your wonderful sessions.
Good discussion, helped us to understand different tools in SRE.
Got good lab sessions which kept the new DevOps tool learnings to the point and it helped a lot in my career.
I took Terraform training with the tutor named Mithilesh. I requested to tailor the course curriculum for my needs. He did an excellent job of showing me how to write the Terraform script per the instructions provided.
My experience with the AIOps training was positive. The course covered important topics in a structured way, and Rajesh Kumar explained the concepts patiently. I found the practical aspects particularly helpful because they made the technical content easier to understand.
| What matters | YouTube + blogs | Generic online course | Freelance marketplace | DevOpsSchool |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Named practitioner | No | Rarely | Varies per booking | Yes — same trainer each time |
| Production experience | Unknown | Unknown | Unverified | 20 years, named employers |
| Custom agenda | No | No | Sometimes | Built from your stack |
| Onsite delivery | No | No | Sometimes | Yes |
| Lab environment | None | Sandbox that expires | Varies | Your own cloud — skill goes with you |
| Assessment | None | Quiz | Rarely | Assignments + capstone per module |
| Per-attendee certificates | No | Sometimes | Rarely | Yes |
| Corporate invoicing | No | Limited | Varies | PO and GST |
| Post-training support | None | Forum, time-limited | None | Lifetime forum access |
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