A think tank is an organization that defines strategies and cultivates ideas.We borrowed the name deliberately. The work of learning a technology well is the same work as thinking about it properly, and a classroom that treats those as two separate jobs does neither.

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PartnersNot customers

Why the name

Most training companies sell a seat. You buy it, you sit in it, and the relationship ends when the projector goes off.

That model produces people who passed an exam. It does not reliably produce people who can do the work on the Monday after. The gap between those two outcomes is the entire reason this place exists.

So the thinQtank initiative is a simple commitment with awkward consequences: we are responsible for whether you can actually do the thing, not for whether we delivered the syllabus. That means instructors who ask what you need before the class starts. It means you can come back and sit the course again, as many times as you want, for two years. And it means a good deal of what we make gets given away, because a person who is not ready to book a class is still a person who needs an answer.

What we hold ourselves to

06 principles

People, not seats

You are a partner, and partners get told the truth. If a course is wrong for you, we will say so and point you at the one that is not, even when that is the cheaper class or no class at all.

The instructor is a person

Our instructors are working technologists with opinions, war stories and the occasional strong view about a vendor. We hire for that. A room taught by someone with no personality is a room nobody remembers.

Hard work and fun are not opposites

These are intensive training camps and they ask a lot of you. They are also meant to be enjoyable. In nearly twenty years we have not found those two things to be in conflict, and we have found that the rooms which are enjoyable are the rooms that pass.

Prepared before day one

Courseware, preparation videos and exam aids arrive when you register, not when you arrive. An instructor speaks to you individually beforehand to find out what you already know, so the first morning is not spent discovering it.

Hands on the keyboard

We aim for roughly forty percent lecture to sixty percent doing. Concepts are demonstrated and then practiced, often in pairs, because explaining something to the person next to you is how you find out whether you understood it.

Free is part of the model

Mentoring, community resources, study material and the practice engine on this site are open to people who have never given us a penny. It is not marketing. It is the part of the job that does not have an invoice attached.

What you can use without booking anything

Practice exams

A practice engine with worked explanations on every question, so a wrong answer teaches you something instead of just costing you a mark.

Mentoring and the forum

Ask a question and a working engineer answers it. No account tier, no upsell at the end of the thread.

Career changers

If you are moving into technology from something else entirely, talk to us. Some of that training is free, and we would rather you asked than assumed.

Military and veteran funding

Air Force COOL, Army Credentialing Assistance, MyCAA and VET TEC 2.0 are all accepted, and we will do the paperwork legwork with you.

Come and see whether any of that is true.Sit in on a class, call us, or come and look at one of the campuses.

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