Hands-on labs
Learn better with hands-on practice in real environments
Strengthen—and speed up—skill development with guided tasks and immediate feedback to learn by doing.
Hands-on labs are totally worth the hype
Wish you had a secure, real-world environment to practice those brand-new skills? Look no further than Hands-on Labs. Our labs enable learners to develop a stronger proficiency in a specific skill or technology through step-by-step instruction, practice exercises, and projects. Hands-on Labs provide the practice your people can’t get anywhere else.
Master new skills with confidence
Enable learners to move forward confidently as they master new skills with sets of hands-on tasks curated for specific roles and goals.
Practice in secure environments
Provide a secure, real-world environment to practice skills—no download or installation required—and mitigate risk to your org’s systems.
Get project-ready with 3,000+ labs
Want to configure virtual machines in Azure or master security operations for CompTIA? There’s a lab for that available just in time, anytime.
See a clear picture of the skill dev journey
Boost confidence with consistent validation and feedback plus insights into how you’re progressing and where there’s room for improvement.
Get your hands cloudy
Our cloud labs (over 2,000 and counting) start in a visual, step-by-step guided mode, but you can level up your learning with a switch to challenge mode. Apply and prove your skills without video guidance and we'll score you based on the objectives.
Tackle any training need
Labs provide guided instruction that mirrors the tasks your teams take on every day. Through learning by doing in real-world scenarios, you'll broaden employee development and empower your technologists to deliver on challenging tech objectives.Â
We were able to quickly learn a new cloud platform, rapidly deploy a working prototype and present a solution with implementation in mind. We were able to rapidly close the knowledge gap and produce a functioning prototype.
Daniel Boring
Senior Platform Architect, TeamHealth
Browse labs by topic
Upskill Microsoft Azure developers and prepare for certifications throughproject-based training in machine learning, Cosmos DB, and Blob Storage.
Build AWS practitioner skills (and confidence) with challenges utilizing AWS CloudWatch, API Gateway, and Amazon EC2.
Put your learning into practice and prep for certifications with labs covering everything from getting started with Bash and Z Shell to command line basics.
Build a table API app with Python and Azure CosmosDB? Yep. Analyze data with Amazon SageMaker? You can do that too.
Dive into Hands-on Labs and challenges in topics like OpenTelemetry, CouldFormation templates, and Kubernetes Engine.
Power up your skilling up and certification prep with guided CompTIA labs, including web attacks and network management and troubleshooting.
Know what you’re getting
A few frequently asked questions
Hands-on labs give learners the chance to apply their knowledge by completing objectives and real-world tasks through step-by-step instruction. Labs can be taken by themselves or as part of a course. All labs come with a secure, temporary environment, so you can practice without worrying about disturbing your production environment or local setup.
Video courses are an important part of the learning experience, as they deliver critical information and education. Hands-on labs allow this knowledge to be applied in-practice in a safe environment first, before executing on more critical, higher risk systems.
We offer 3,500+ hands-on labs across all popular technology domains, including AI, Cloud, Data, IT Ops, Software Development, and Security.
Hands-on practice is a proven way to build confidence and reinforce newly learned skills. In addition to guided labs that include step-by-step instruction, select labs are also available in challenge mode, which offer advanced practice with zero guidance. Once completed, each task is scored and learners are given advice on skills that might need further attention.
Hands-on labs are available across over 650 topic areas, spanning from general skills such as machine learning and troubleshooting to vendors like Linux, AWS, and GCP to popular development stacks including Java and Python.
Yes, all individual and business plans include hands-on labs. Depending on which plan you choose, you may have access to all available labs or select lab libraries dependent on the plan’s tech domain.