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TryHackMe is a popular website that will teach you about networking and cybersecurity and allow you to practice different skills as you learn about them.
The site is in a gamification type approach. It has lots of classes/courses that are available that it calls rooms. These rooms are made up of a number of tasks (usually short) that teach you specific concepts or skills. Each task has several questions to finish that are on what you learned about or confirming you did a skill. They immediately mark it correct or incorrect and many have hints. In addition, it shows using asterisks what form the answer is in. For instance, the question what the layer number of data Link is and will show answer as * as it is 2.
The site has quite simple rooms to complex concept rooms. They have over a million users and currently I am in the top 13%, I have a former student in the top 3%.
A lot of stuff can be done for free on the site, I assigned the Introductory Networking room to my students which is free. The free stuff does limit you to use of the virtual machines for one hour each day, but next day you get to use another hour.
There is also a paid version which is $10 per month. Some room and tasks are only available in the paid version. Also, with the paid version you get unlimited use of the virtual machines (well actually you get 24 hours each day versus 1 hour).
I have found this site particularly useful and mostly I have done the free but after a month I started paying the $10 so I got to more and the use of virtual machines more than an hour a day.
They also give badges for making new levels and days in row answering questions.
TryHackMe is at TryHackMe.com and is physically located in the British Isles.
Send your questions about computers to my e-mail dwight@dwightwatt.com and tell me you read this in this paper. I will pick a question to answer each week.
Dwight Watt does computer work for businesses, individuals and organizations and teaches about computers at a technical college in northwest Georgia. His webpage is www.dwightwatt.com.
