SkillSoft Explore Course – Lambers, Inc.

IT Professional Curricula Operating Systems and Server Technologies Solution Area DevOps Automating Your IT Infrastructure

Explore Python and how Python can be used to create and manage automation in an IT environment.

Asset ID	it_osaiti_02_enus
Course Type	Video Course
Course Category	Operating Systems and Server Technologies Solution Area

Objectives
IT Infrastructure Automation: Python Automation Programming identify how Python can be used to automate processes and operating system tasks install Python 3 on Linux, Windows, and Mac use the PIP Package Manager to manage Python packages on Windows 10 use variables and operators to manipulate strings and numbers work with functions and loops to process data use lists, tuples, and dictionaries in Python create and run a basic Python script perform file operations, like open, close, read, and write, on text-based files manipulate CSV files within a Python script process JSON files within a Python script parse XML files within a Python script use Python to scrape content from websites and report if a website is online use the python-crontab module to manage cron jobs create zipped backup files from within a Python script create a Python automation script

Objectives

IT Infrastructure Automation: Python Automation Programming

identify how Python can be used to automate processes and operating system tasks
install Python 3 on Linux, Windows, and Mac
use the PIP Package Manager to manage Python packages on Windows 10
use variables and operators to manipulate strings and numbers
work with functions and loops to process data
use lists, tuples, and dictionaries in Python
create and run a basic Python script
perform file operations, like open, close, read, and write, on text-based files
manipulate CSV files within a Python script
process JSON files within a Python script
parse XML files within a Python script
use Python to scrape content from websites and report if a website is online
use the python-crontab module to manage cron jobs
create zipped backup files from within a Python script
create a Python automation script