• Online, Self-Paced

Working with databases, regular expressions, and XML data are common tasks for DevOps in Python. This course demonstrates how to perform these common tasks.

Learning Objectives

Database Operations

  • start the course
  • create a database and a user in MySQL from Python
  • build a table and perform CRUD operations from Python
  • perform a transactional query with commit in Python
  • handle errors returned from database queries in Python

Regular Expressions

  • work with regular expression search syntax using the standard RE module
  • perform a search and replace using various regular expression modifiers

XML Processing

  • parse XML data with SAX using the standard XML module
  • use the DOM with the standard XML module to parse XML data

Practice: Databases and XML

  • read data from XML and save it in a MySQL database

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Specialty Areas

  • Systems Development

Specialty Areas have been removed from the NICE Framework. With the recent release of the new NICE Framework data, updates to courses are underway. Until this course can be updated, this historical information is provided to give better context as to how it can help you with your cybersecurity goals.

Feedback

If you would like to provide feedback for this course, please e-mail the NICCS SO at NICCS@hq.dhs.gov.