• Online, Self-Paced
Course Description

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 Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs) identified within the Specialty Areas listed below. Click to view Specialty Area details within the interactive National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework.