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Network Scanning: Port Analysis
In this lab, you’ll practice using Nmap. When you’re finished, you’ll have the ability to run Nmap to perform port scanning and evaluate the results to identify running services, open ports and potential vulnerabilities.

Lab Info
Table of Contents
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Challenge
Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Challenge
Performing the Nmap scans
In this challenge you will perform an Nmap scan against the target system to identify open ports and running services.
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Analyzing the Nmap output
In this challenge you will examine the Nmap output to identify open ports and services running on the target machine.
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Running Custom Nmap Scans
In this challenge learners will learn how to use Nmap commands to target specific ports, perform ping sweeps, vulnerability scans and run Nmap scans against multiple hosts in one command.
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The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
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