CNM Cert Essentials

The CNM Cyber Entrance Preparation (hereinafter, the Lesson) is the second learning activity of the CNM Cyber Welcome Course. The Lesson is following a preview lesson and is followed by the CNM Cyber Entrance Exam.

Part 1. What CNM Cert is

Part 1 content

Official texts of this entrance exam preparation lesson, as well as its preview, are published at CNM Cert. CNM Cert is the learning management system that is brought to you as a service. Learning management systems commonly transfer knowledge from the instructor to the learners, as well as support assessments whether the knowledge has been transferred.

The target knowledge is ordinarily embedded into learning content. Because knowledge is in its focus, this type of training is called knowledge-focused training.

Learning content delivery usually occurs through lessons like this one, instructor-led lecturing, and other narrated teaching. As long as you can read/hear these words, you can see/hear that CNM Cert delivers some content as well. However, the content delivery is not the primary purpose of CNM Cert.

A special feature of CNM Cert is that this service interacts with other services that deliver learning content as well. However, among all those services, only CNM Cert can accommodate assessments. The word, Cert, in the service's name stands for certification.

CNM Cert's assessments are further used to track your progress and plan your learning path. Thus, one single most important purpose of CNM Cert is its monitoring of your development and planning of your further learning.

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Part 1 review

The word, CERT, in the name, CNM CERT, stands for:

1. computer education recruitment training
2. Computers for Education, Recruitment and Training
3. Council of Education, Recruitment and Training
4. certification
5. None of the other answers is correct

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Part 2. What CNM Cyber is

Part 2 content

CNM Cert is a part of a bigger managed learning environment, which is called CNM Cyber. CNM Cyber is the platform that integrates twenty two various services that can possibly function separately as standalone ones. CNM Cert is designed to track your progress in the other services, the overwhelming majority of which accommodate various types of training.

Among all the services, only CNM Page is designed to primarily support knowledge-focused training. However, this service is not operational yet and, because of that, other services such as CNM Cert and CNM Video are currently filling the gap.

However, just knowing constitutes neither skills nor abilities required to do jobs.

Most of CNM Cyber's services are designed to mainly support skills-focused training, which objectives are to build learner's skills to work especially under instructions.

Two of the services, CNM Lab and CNM Wiki, are designed to principally support abilities-focused training. Its objectives are to build learner's capacity to perform independently, with little-to-no supervision, even beyond instructions. This type of training particularly include project-based learning and learning by making.

Nevertheless, any service may be utilized in many ways. Eventually, CNM Cyber shall become a career-enhancement platform. All in all, the combination of various services of CNM Cyber is designed to fully accommodate building of your work skills and preparing you for advanced employment.

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Part 2 review

Your suggestion for how to improve this very welcome course, if this happens because of some part of our training, would be a result of:

1. Knowledge-focused training
2. Abilities-focused training
3. Skills-focused training
4. Learning content delivery
5. None of the other answers is correct

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Part 3. What CNM Cabin is

Part 3 content

One system, CNM Cabin, supports no learning activities directly; vice versa, it serves all the other systems while providing federated services. CNM Cabin transforms various systems of CNM Cyber into a united platform. Every service of CNM Cyber utilizes the user data of CNM Cabin. For instance, CNM Cert takes CNM Cabin's data to track your progress.

CNM Cabin is the user management system of CNM Cyber. And management of users' data routinely has two sides.

On the user side, user management systems help manage users' profiles and preferences. You provided CNM Cabin with your login name and password. You can also manage those through CNM Cabin's dashboard.

On the administration side, user management systems help manage access to various resources such as systems, networks, and services. Your access permissions is assigned by the platform administrators. You have started here, at CNM Cyber, as a newbie with minimal rights. The more you learn here, the more accesses CNM Cabin grants.

The word, Cabin, in the service name, indicates that this service provides you with a separate and private space where you can interact with CNM Cyber as a whole.

To protect your privacy, CNM Cabin will also assign you a student alias -- it will look like a normal name. CNM Cabin generates only gender-neutral names. Your real name and other user data will be kept in secret unless you decide to disclose it.

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Part 3 review

When I take classes at CNM Cert, my peers shall be able to see my:

1. Name
2. Gender
3. Location
4. All of the other substantive answers are correct
5. None of the other answers is correct

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Part 4. What CNM Wiki is

Part 4 content

CNM Wiki is CNM Cyber's document collaboration system. Document collaboration systems usually help multiple people work together on single documents to achieve their distinguished latest versions. Before this welcome course was published at CNM Cert, it was developed at CNM Wiki. The course texts including its exam questions can still be viewed at the wikipage titled CNM Cyber Welcome Course there.

There are two types of document collaboration systems. Collaborative realtime editors such as Google Docs and other web-based office suites belong to one type.

CNM Cyber's document collaboration system utilizes another type, wiki engine, because of two reasons. First of all, wiki is more widespread in information technology development. Second, wiki engines are robust when it comes to tracking, which is vital in the learning process.

CNM Wiki tracks different versions of those textual documents that have been developed there. This feature is called "history." Using that feature, older versions can be accessed and any revision can be "undo" or reversed. Wiki is a Hawaiian word meaning quick and refers to fast editing of the content.

CNM Wiki is open to the public, but CNM Cyber utilizes several private wikis as well. CNM Lab, for instance, stores security-sensitive information, which cyber criminals can use to attack CNM Cyber. So, CNM Lab's wiki has to be private. CNM Certs features its wiki tool as a learning activity and CNM Social provides its communities with the private wiki too.

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Part 4 review

Unofficial, but the most complete scripts of the lecture of this welcome course, all the questions of the final exam, and often direct answers to those questions are published at:

1. CNM Cabin
2. CNM Cert
3. CNM Social
4. CNM Video
5. CNM Wiki

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Part 5. What CNM Social is

Part 5 content

CNM Social is a social networking system of CNM Cyber. Social networking systems are usually designed to help people build relationships with other people who share similar activities, backgrounds, interests, or real-life connections.

CNM Social facilitates a social network of those people who use CNM Cyber. Those people can participate in this network through online communities called "spaces." CNM Social provides every community space with its announcement board and messaging feature. Each community space can also have its private wiki.

Some spaces are open to everyone and you are welcome to join any of those in order to post your questions, share your experiences, or get in touch with someone else. If you don't know where to start, you can take advantage of the "Welcome Space". To discuss anything related to CNM Cyber and/or to access its administrators, you can join the special space called CNM Cyber User Community. If you speak not only English, you can also explore those spaces that are designed for those users who speak languages rather than English.

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Part 5 review

If you have tried to pass the CNM Cyber entrance exam, and your grade is not failing, but not enough to complete the course, you can:

1. Assuming that CNM Social facilitates the community space called Welcome Course Re-Takers, join that space
2. Find the answers published at CNM Wiki
3. Try the exam again at CNM Cert
4. All of the other substantive answers are correct
5. None of the other answers is correct

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Part 6. What CNM Video is

Part 6 content

CNM Video is the video-sharing system of CNM Cyber. Video-sharing systems are usually designed to enable their users to upload, convert, store and play back audiovisual content on the World Wide Web. CNM Video shares those videos that are or can be used in its learning content delivery and allows its users to upload their videos as well as to comment and ask questions related to the uploaded videos.

Within CNM Cyber, CNM Cert and CNM Page are also able to demonstrate videos, but CNM Video is designed to be the hub of everything audiovisual. For now, both official lecture videos and remedial ones are published at CNM Video, but this will change when CNM Page becomes operational.

The next part of this lesson will introduce you to future CNM Page. Eventually, CNM Page shall look and feel more like a traditional website. Both official lecture texts, which temporarily are posted at CNM Cert, and official videos from CNM Video will be eventually moved to CNM Page. CNM Video then will concentrate on learner's projects more.

However, even now, learners may use CNM Video, so may they use CNM Wiki, not only to gain some knowledge, but also to collaborate on new content creation.

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Part 6 review

1. CNM Video can be best used for:
   1. Learning content delivery
   2. Learning by making
   3. Project-based learning
   4. Lecturing
   5. All of the other answers are correct

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Part 7. What Competency Suite Is

Part 7 content

Up to this point, the lesson has covered only six services of CNM Cyber. As a friendly reminder, their total number is twenty two. And fifteen of them are grouped into the CNM Competency Suite.

The CNM Competency Suite is a collection of CNM Cyber's services that is designed to assist in obtaining those KSAs that CNM Cyber users need. This suite includes three services that the lesson has already covered. They are CNM Cert, CNM Wiki, and CNM Video. This lesson parts touches CNM Page and eleven services hosted by CNM Next Server.

CNM Page is CNM Cyber's future content management system. For now, its software has been installed, but the system lacks any content and cannot serve the customers. When CNM Page is launched, it shall become the official website of CNM Cyber.

Finally, CNM Next Server supports those versions of CNM Cyber's systems that are used in hands-on training of their future administrators and users. Every regular system of CNM Cyber has its training version. The word Next is included in the training version's names; for instance, CertNext is a training version of CNM Cert, and so on.

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Part 7 review

Those systems of CNM Cyber that have two versions, one of which is delivered to CNM Cyber's users as a regular service, and another is designed to be used for hands-on training of its future administrators, are:

1. document collaboration system
2. user management system
3. learning management system
4. All of the other substantive answers are correct
5. None of the other answers is correct

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Part 8. What Action Suite is

action

venture linkup talk social mail

Part 8 content

CNM Mail shall handle emails of CNM Cyber users. CNM Linkup is an customer relationship management system, which its users can particularly utilize in their job searches. CNM Talk shall accommodate teleconferencing. CNM Venture is an enterprise resource planning system, which can be used for on-the-job training.

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Part 8 review

Which of the following statements is correct:

1. The complete CNM Cyber platform is now available to those who pass this welcome course.
2. The overall completion of CNM Cyber is estimated at 45% as of early 2020.
3. Developers, project coordinators, and other contributors, both paid and volunteer, are wanted in order to complete CNM Cyber.
4. CNM Cloud must be completed prior to CNM Cyber completion.
5. None of the other answers is correct.

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Part 9. What CNM Lab is

platform

lab cabin

Part 9 content

CNM Lab is the primary service for those developers who work on CNM Cyber's software. This service is provided through three systems, which are project management, version control, and file-sharing ones.

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Part 9 review

Which of the following statements is correct:

1. The complete CNM Cyber platform is now available to those who pass this welcome course.
2. The overall completion of CNM Cyber is estimated at 45% as of early 2020.
3. Developers, project coordinators, and other contributors, both paid and volunteer, are wanted in order to complete CNM Cyber.
4. CNM Cloud must be completed prior to CNM Cyber completion.
5. None of the other answers is correct.

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Part 10. What CNM Cloud is

Part 10 content

Basically, CNM Cyber provides its users with various systems as services. CNM Cloud is the software behind those systems.

CNM Cloud is the information technology that supports CNM Cyber. Every service of CNM Cyber is powered by one end-user application, which is a CNM app. For instance, CNM Wikiware powers CNM Wiki, CNM Videoware powers CNM Video, CNM Cabin, as a federated service, is powered by CNM Middleware. All CNM apps are installed on one of CNM Servers.

There are four CNM Servers. WorldOpp Federated Server host CNM Middleware. All other regular systems of CNM Cyber are installed on the CNM Fellow Server. The CNM Next Server hosts those systems that are used in hands-on training of CNM Cyber administrators. The CNM Trial Server is used for training of CNM Cloud administrators and their experiments.

Temporarily, all the servers are based on the third-party cloud, but eventually they shall be returned to the private one.

The CNM Cloud Project is the endeavor that is undertaken in order to develop CNM Cloud. That endeavor is divided into five phases and has just entered into its third phase called CNM Cloud Usable. The overall completion of CNM Cloud is estimated at 45% as of early 2020. 80% of the cloud completion is estimated to be needed in order to launch the complete CNM Cyber platform.

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Part 10 review

Which of the following statements is correct:

1. The complete CNM Cyber platform is now available to those who pass this welcome course.
2. The overall completion of CNM Cyber is estimated at 45% as of early 2020.
3. Developers, project coordinators, and other contributors, both paid and volunteer, are wanted in order to complete CNM Cyber.
4. CNM Cloud must be completed prior to CNM Cyber completion.
5. None of the other answers is correct.

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Part 11. CNM Cyber on the Web

Part 11 content

Until the mobile app is developed, every user of CNM Cyber must use a web browser such as Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, or any other, in order to access this platform.

In the World Wide Web, CNM Cyber is temporarily located at the friendsofcnm.org hostname. Friends Of CNM is an alias name of a commercial company that sponsors CNM Cyber. This company covers all the expenses associated with CNM Cyber, employs its staffers, and, generally speaking, executes the requirements of CNM Cyber Team. Accordingly, CNM Cyber Team is a team of volunteers of the Career Network Ministry, which is alternatively known by its acronym CNM. CNM is a non-profit group that the Friends Of CNM supports.

Various systems of CNM Cyber are available at sub-domains such as cabin.friendsofcnm.org for CNM Cabin, cert.friendsofcnm.org for CNM Cert, social.friendsofcnm.org for CNM Social, video.friendsofcnm.org for CNM Video, or wiki.friendsofcnm.org for CNM Wiki.

Those versions of CNM Cyber systems that are installed on the CNM Next Server have the .next. field added to their hostnames such as cert.next.friendsofcnm.org, social.next.friendsofcnm.org, video.next.friendsofcnm.org, or wiki.next.friendsofcnm.org.

One exception is CNM Cabin; it is temporarily located at opplet.net. The Friends Of CNM also reserved a separate hostname, cnmcyber.com, for CNM Cyber. One day, CNM Cyber shall be found on the World Wide Web under its own hostname.

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Part 11 review

To change your password at CNM Cyber, you need to go to:

1. cabin.friendsofcnm.org
2. cert.friendsofcnm.org
3. social.friendsofcnm.org
4. wiki.friendsofcnm.org
5. cnmcyber.com

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Part 12. Who develops CNM Cyber

Part 12 content

Two teams develop CNM Cyber. You don't have to, but are welcome to join any of them.

The WorldOpp Fellow Staff represents employees of the Friends Of CNM. This team hires independent software developers too. If you choose to join that team, you should take the WorldOpp Orientation upon your completion of this welcome course.

The CNM Cyber Team is a group of volunteers of CNM. The CNM Cyber Orientation is the prerequisite for its candidates.

Whichever, if any, team you choose, you would start out as a project coordinator. You didn't feel like CNM Cyber's registration is perfect, did you? Software developers are available. However, coordinators first shall describe what needs to be developed. Second, developed software, like CNM Pageware, needs to put to work.

Our volunteer graduates become CNM IT Project Coordinators; CNM Cloud Project Coordinators are entry-level titles of our apprentices.

The CNM Cyber Team administers the CNM Trial Server and all CNM apps installed on the CNM Next Server, as well as creates technical requirements for the rest of CNM Cyber. With regard to technical support, the WorldOpp Fellow Staff fills in all the gaps that the CNM Cyber Team may leave.

Your possible choice of the team can be changed many times; any transition between those teams can be accommodated later in your career journey. Good luck on that!

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Part 12 review

Upon successful completion of this welcome course, your choice is:

1. join the WorldOpp Fellow Staff as a prospective apprentice and/or work as a contractor
2. join the CNM Cyber Team as a prospective volunteer
3. not join any team of CNM Cyber developers at all
4. All of the other substantive answers are correct
5. None of the other answers is correct

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