Beginner tasks for VMs?

I've used virtual machines in school to workout passwords and basic digital forensic tasks about 6 years ago and am about to go to college for Cyber Security in September. I'm wandering if there are any beginner tasks that I could try on Virtual machines? I've tried googling it and I can't find anything, so any help would be great, thanks.

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