Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for Executives, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Business and IT stakeholders working with analysts, Quality and process engineers, technicians, managers; supervisors, team leaders, and process operators; anyone who wants to improve their Business Analysis skills. Overview After completing this course, students will know how to: Plan, manage and close requirements for software development project in reduced time using Agile Scrum practices Minimize project uncertainty and risk by applying Agile principles through the Scrum method Ensure your project delivers required functionality and adds value to the business Create an environment of self-management for your software development team that will be able to continuously align the delivered software with desired business needs, easily adapting to changing requirements throughout the process. Learn how to apply Agile Scrum by measuring and evaluating status based on the undeniable truth of working, testing software, creating a more accurate visibility into the actual progress of projects. Many of today?s Project Management and Business Analyst Professionals are finding themselves leading, managing and analyzing on Agile development teams - only to find that many of the tools and techniques applied when using a traditional project management approach no longer work as effectively or at all. In order to do more than survive in this iterative development environment, today?s Project Manager and Business Analyst must employ additional project management and business analysis tools and techniques to effectively lead their teams and deliver their projects. Introduction - Fundamentals of Agile Why Agile? Exercise 1a: Waterfall-Lean-Agile Simulation History & Mindset: Understand how the agile approach arose. The Agile Lifecycle Introducing Agile to the organization Roles and Responsibilities on an Agile project team. Understand the purpose, the concepts, the theory, and some applications around the importance of people as individuals providing value through working in teams. Establishing core hours - How will the team work during a day? How to build end-to-end systems in early iterations Exercise 1b: How to build end-to-end systems in early iterations Planning and Managing Business Analysis Communication and Performance Agile and CMMI Exercise 1c: Case Study Project Assembling the team ? Scrum Roles Value-Driven Development: Understand why agile development focuses so heavily on working products, its more general casting as 'value-driven' development, with incremental, iterative and risk-driven approaches. Themes, theory and applications. Exercise 2a: Identify the ?Product Owner? Identify Project Success Criteria Exercise 2b: Review the Scrum Cheat Sheet Establish your Agile team using RACI Exercise 2c: Build the Scrum Team Define the Product and Project Vision Envision the Product and Project outcomes Exercise 3a: Review Agile Checklist Project Chartering (Project Planning) Assemble the Agile project team ? what are their responsibilities? Compile the Product Backlog (Coarse-Grain Requirements) Discuss how to Plan Sprints and Releases Exercise 3b: Product Vision ? Goals and Strategies Establish the Project ?time-box? Exercise 3c: Create a Release Plan Embrace the High-Level (Coarse-Grain) Plan Managing different types of Personas on an Agile Project Identifying and managing ?Information Radiators? Planning in Agile Projects ? Common practices that work Determine how the team will tracking and monitoring activities Exercise 3c: Establish the Project Time-box Tools and Techniques ? Building the Scrum Task board Communications Exercise 4a: Discussion ? Tools and Techniques for Scrum Planning, Monitoring and Adapting Scrum Task Board Exercise 4c: Create a Scrum Task board ? Identify work streams Agile Estimating Agile Analysis and Design Burndown Chart Team Velocity Soft Skills Negotiation Estimating ad Prioritizing Effort Planning Releases. Understand the value, the concepts, the theory and some applications for learning and adapting at all levels and on all topics (the product, the process, the team, and the organization). Exercise 5a: Brainstorm Business Functionality Establishing decision and acceptance criteria for user stories Planning Poker Exercise 5b: Estimate Effort (Coarse-Grain) Prioritize themes and releases Prioritize user stories Exercise 5c: Confirm the Estimated Effort (Fine Grain) Estimating team velocity Preparing for change ? Is the organization ready? Exercise 5d: Hold a daily Scrum and update the Scrum Task Board Exercise 5e: Conduct a Scrum or Scrums Plan the Iteration (Sprint) Sprint Zero activities Elements of a successful Sprint Planning meeting Create a Sprint Backlog How to create a task board Exercise 6a: Using the case study ? Review Iteration Planning Checklist Create a Sprint plan ? Establishing Sprint success metrics Exercise 6b: Discussion Sprint ?Zero? Activities Define the vision and Iteration Requirements Estimating the level of effort (LOE) with the team Creating user Stories for the Product Backlog -Guidelines to consider The art of slicing user stories Exercise 6c: Review the Sprint Plan Managing the Solution Scope and Requirements using 2-4 week Sprints Exercise 6d: Adapting a change-driven Project plan that works Adapting a change-driven (Agile) Project plan that works ? what are the key differences from traditional (waterfall) project plans? Finalize the Iteration Plan and how the team will operate Running the Sprint - from Planning to Review and Retrospective Managing your Scrums and setting expectations with your team Exercise 7a: Using the case study ? Review the Review Planning checklist Using Burndown charts to track progress Exercise 7b: Using the case study ? Review the Review Retrospective checklist Manage changes during the Sprint ? What questions to ask Prepare for the Sprint Review Exercise 7c: Review of roles - Quiz Obtain Customer Acceptance of the Product Increment Hold a Sprint Retrospective - What is working and what needs to be improved upon during the Sprints Update the product backlog - Rework the High-Level (Coarse-Grain) Plan Plan and Execute the next Sprint Create an environment for continuous improvement ? Product, Process and People Additional Information Useful books and links on Agile
Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is intended for beginner to intermediate business and requirements analysts who are looking to improve their elicitation and requirements writing and documentation skills. This course is also a great fit for technical writers, product and software testers, project managers, product owners who work closely with business analysts or who perform some for of business analysis themselves. Overview Understand the role of the business analyst and core competencies for performing successfully Discuss the criticality of business analysis and requirements for successful project outcomes Understand the main professional associations and standards supporting business analysts in the industry Discuss the common problems with requirements and explore approaches to address these issues Obtain a clear understanding of the various requirements types and the significance for eliciting each type Demonstrate your ability to identify stakeholders Explore various methods for understanding and analyzing stakeholders Discuss and apply good planning practices to requirements elicitation efforts Obtain knowledge and understanding of over 15 current and commonly applied elicitation techniques Understand how to progress from elicitation to analysis to documentation Write well-formed and validated requirements Gain understanding of the best practices for writing quality requirements Learn the technical writing techniques that apply directly to writing requirements documents Discuss writing pitfalls, risks that impact requirements, and how to address them Learn best practices for communicating and collaborating with stakeholders, sharing the results of elicitation and the resulting documentation Learn approaches for validating requirements Understand the difference between validating requirements and validating the solution With elicitation serving as a major component of the requirements process, it is imperative that business analysts maintain high competency levels in elicitation practices and technique use to help organizations overcome the requirements related challenges faced on projects. Regardless whether you are a practitioner just starting off your career in business analysis or whether you have been performing the role for some years, this course will provide insight into the latest thoughts on elicitation and writing effective requirements and present a number of current techniques that are being applied on projects across industries today. Review of Foundational Concepts Definition of a business analysis Definition of business analyst BA role vs. PM role Business analysis competencies Benefits of business analysis Purpose for having a BA standard IIBA?s BABOK© Guide and PMI?s Practice Guide in Business Analysis Business analysis core concepts Discussion: Project challenges Understanding Requirements Common problems with requirements Understand the problem first Define the business need Situation statements and moving to requirements Understanding requirement types Business requirements Stakeholder/User Requirements Solution Requirements Functional Requirements Non-Functional Requirements Assumptions and Constraints Discussions: Requirement problems, business needs, and identifying non-functional requirements Discovering Stakeholders Definition of a stakeholder Stakeholder types Identifying stakeholders Performing stakeholder analysis Stakeholders and requirements Tips for identifying stakeholders Grouping stakeholders Creating a RACI model Tips for analyzing stakeholders Documenting results of stakeholder analysis Workshop: Discovering stakeholders Preparing for Requirements Elicitation Planning for elicitation Benefits of elicitation planning What do you plan? The elicitation plan Setting objectives for elicitation Determining the scope for elicitation Establishing pre-work Determining the outputs for the session The iterative nature of elicitation Elicitation roles Elicitation planning techniques Discussions: Who to involve in elicitation, planning impacts, and unplanned elicitation Workshop: Planning for elicitation Conduct Requirements Elicitation Elicitation skillset Types of elicitation techniques Using active listening in elicitation Techniques for performing elicitation Benchmarking/Market Analysis Brainstorming Business Rules Analysis Collaborative Games Concept Modeling Data Mining Data Modeling Document Analysis Focus Groups Interface Analysis Interviews Observation Process Modeling Prototyping Survey or Questionnaire Workshops Write Effective Requirements Elicitation and Analysis Requirements related issues Implications of bad requirements Elicitation and documentation Writing skillset Documenting requirements Modeling requirements Defining the project life cycle Impact of project life cycle on documentation Requirements specifications Characteristics of good requirements Guidelines for writing textual requirements Structuring a requirement Writing pitfalls Traceability Requirements attributes Risks associated to requirements Discussions: Project Life Cycle and Correcting Poorly Written Requirements Workshops: Documenting Requirements and Identify Characteristics of Good Requirements Confirm and Communicate Elicitation Requirements Business analysis communication Requirements communication Communication skills The 7 Cs Timing of communication Planning communication Importance of Collaboration Planning collaboration Documenting communication/collaboration needs Confirming elicitation results Verify requirements Characteristics of good requirements (revisited) Requirements checklist Requirements validation Signing off on requirements Discussions: Responsibility for Communication, Eliciting Communication Needs, Validation Signoff Workshops: Communicating Requirements and Obtaining Signoff Evaluate the Solution Business analyst role in solution evaluation Why solutions under perform What we are looking for in solution evaluation When does solution evaluation occur Performing solution evaluation Planning solution evaluation Metrics that might exist Evaluating long term performance Qualitative vs. quantitative measures Tools & techniques used in solution evaluation Comparing expected to actuals When solution evaluation discovers a variance Tools/techniques for analyzing variances Proposing a recommendation Communicating results of solution evaluation Discussion: Addressing Variance Wrap up and Next Steps Useful books and links on writing effective requirements BABOK© Guide Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide Additional course details: Nexus Humans BA04 - Eliciting and Writing Effective Requirements training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the BA04 - Eliciting and Writing Effective Requirements course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.
Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours This course is intended for Multi-role (consumers, business authors, professional authors, developers, administrators, modelers, project managers) This course provides students with an overview of the IBM Cognos Analytics suite of products and their underlying architecture. Students will examine each component as it relates to an Analytics solution & will be shown a range of resources. IBM Cognos Analytics Describe IBM Cognos Analytics Describe IBM Cognos Analytics components Describe IBM Cognos architecture at a high level Describe IBM Cognos security at a high level Consume Content in IBM Cognos Analytics Where do consumers access BI content? Use published reports Drill through to related data Specify run report options Specify properties of an entry Alerts and Watch Items Create Reports in IBM Cognos Analytics Overview of reporting and report authoring Identify package types, uploaded files, and data modules available for reporting Examine IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting Examine the interface Explore different report types Create a simple, sorted, and formatted report Create a report view Create a subscription Create an Active Report Import and report on personal data Create Dashboards in IBM Cognos Analytics Describe IBM Cognos Dashboarding Identify the IBM Cognos Dashboarding user interface Add report content and tools to create dashboards Widget-to-widget communication Filter data in the dashboard Sort, group and ungroup, and calculate data Create Metadata Models in IBM Cognos Analytics Define IBM Cognos Framework Manager and its purpose Describe the IBM Cognos Framework Manager environment Describe IBM Cognos Cube Designer Get high-level content from Dynamic Cubes course and/or FM course Web-based Modeling Create Data Modules Extend IBM Cognos Analytics Introduction to IBM Cognos Mobile Key features Examine Cognos Mobile architecture Identify supported products Introduction to IBM Cognos BI for Microsoft Office Describe Cognos Analysis for Excel (CAFÂ) Compare IBM Cognos Analytics & IBM Cognos BI New features in IBM Cognos Analytics Changes from IBM Cognos BI to IBM Cognos Analytics Legacy option Examine Event Studio Examine the role of Event Studio in Performance Management List the benefits of Event Studio Examine Metric Studio Identify scorecards, metrics, and metric types Organize metrics with strategies Track initiatives with projects
Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is intended for: Solutions architects, security DevOps, and security engineers Overview In this course, you will learn to: Establish a landing zone with AWS Control Tower Configure AWS Organizations to create a multi-account environment Implement identity management using AWS Single Sign-On users and groups Federate access using AWS SSO Enforce policies using prepackaged guardrails Centralize logging using AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config Enable cross-account security audits using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Define workflows for provisioning accounts using AWS Service Catalog and AWS Security Hub Security is foundational to AWS. Governance at scale is a new concept for automating cloud governance that can help companies retire manual processes in account management, budget enforcement, and security and compliance. By automating common challenges, companies can scale without inhibiting agility, speed, or innovation. In addition, they can provide decision makers with the visibility, control, and governance necessary to protect sensitive data and systems.In this course, you will learn how to facilitate developer speed and agility, and incorporate preventive and detective controls. By the end of this course, you will be able to apply governance best practices. Course Introduction Instructor introduction Learning objectives Course structure and objectives Course logistics and agenda Module 1: Governance at Scale Governance at scale focal points Business and Technical Challenges Module 2: Governance Automation Multi-account strategies, guidance, and architecture Environments for agility and governance at scale Governance with AWS Control Tower Use cases for governance at scale Module 3: Preventive Controls Enterprise environment challenges for developers AWS Service Catalog Resource creation Workflows for provisioning accounts Preventive cost and security governance Self-service with existing IT service management (ITSM) tools Module 4: Detective Controls Operations aspect of governance at scale Resource monitoring Configuration rules for auditing Operational insights Remediation Clean up accounts Module 5: Resources Explore additional resources for security governance at scale Additional course details: Nexus Humans AWS Security Governance at Scale training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the AWS Security Governance at Scale course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.
Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is intended for: Solutions architects, cloud engineers, including security engineers, delivery and implementation engineers, professional services, and Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) Overview In this course, you will learn to: Design and implement a secure network infrastructure Design and implement compute security Design and implement a logging solution Currently, the average cost of a security breach can be upwards of $4 million. AWS Security Best Practices provides an overview of some of the industry best practices for using AWS security and control types. This course helps you understand your responsibilities while providing valuable guidelines for how to keep your workload safe and secure. You will learn how to secure your network infrastructure using sound design options. You will also learn how you can harden your compute resources and manage them securely. Finally, by understanding AWS monitoring and alerting, you can detect and alert on suspicious events to help you quickly begin the response process in the event of a potential compromise. Module 1: AWS Security Overview Shared responsibility model Customer challenges Frameworks and standards Establishing best practices Compliance in AWS Module 2: Securing the Network Flexible and secure Security inside the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Security services Third-party security solutions Module 3: Amazon EC2 Security Compute hardening Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) encryption Secure management and maintenance Detecting vulnerabilities Using AWS Marketplace Module 4: Monitoring and Alerting Logging network traffic Logging user and Application Programming Interface (API) traffic Visibility with Amazon CloudWatch Enhancing monitoring and alerting Verifying your AWS environment Additional course details: Nexus Humans AWS Security Best Practices training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the AWS Security Best Practices course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.
Duration 4.5 Days 27 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is intended for individuals who have basic knowledge on cloud computing; on-premise system administrators; IT specialists, interested in AWS and Cloud Technologies. Overview Upon successful completion of this course, students will know how to design and deploy scalable, highly accessible and fault-tolerant systems in AWS. In this course, students will learn the main 'Managed Service' offered by AWS; How to design and deploy scalable, highly accessible and fault-tolerant systems in AWS; How to choose the most appropriate AWS service. Introduction Course overview Exam Blue Print Public clouds & cloud economics AWS Overview & Whitepapers Setting up AWS Account Identity and Access Management (IAM) Local users, groups & roles SAML providers Policies Cross Account Access Best practices & Examples Lab Exam highlights Sample questions Simple Storage Service (S3) & Glacier Buckets Objects Lifecycle Configurations and permissions Custom bucket policies Best Practices & Examples Lab Exam highlights Sample questions Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) VPC Internet gateway vs NAT Gateway Elastic IPs Subnets & Routing tables Security Groups & Network Access Lists VPC Peering & Endpoints Managed VPN Connections Best Practices & Examples Lab Exam highlights Sample questions Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instances Amazon Machine Images(AMIs) Elastic Block Store (EBS) Network & Security Load Balancers (ELB) Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) Instance Management Best Practices & Examples Lab Exam highlights Sample questions Route 53 Hosted Zones Health checks Traffic flow Best Practices & Examples Lab Exam highlights Sample questions Relational Database Service (RDS) Engine types Performance & Resilience Subnet groups Best Practices & Examples Lab Exam highlights Sample questions CloudWatch Dashboard and Metrics CloudWatch logs CloudWatch rules Best Practices & Examples Lab Exam highlights Sample questions Other AWS Services Simple Overview CloudFront DynamoDB Elasticache Redshift SQS SWF SNS Elastic Transcoder API Gateway Kenesis CloudFormation Exam highlights Sample questions Multiple AWS Services exercise Lab 1 - Architecting multi-tier environment Lab 2 - Configure backup and monitoring Practice Exam Additional course details: Nexus Humans AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.
Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is intended for individuals who want to gain basic and intermediate knowledge of working on AutoCAD Overview Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to create basic and intermediate drawings utilizing the AutoCAD software In this course, you will learn to navigate the AutoCAD user interfaces and use the fundamental features of AutoCAD. You will learn to use the precision drafting tools in AutoCAD to develop accurate technical drawings. Utilizing the AutoCAD Software Startup Screen The Application Menu The AutoCAD User Interface AutoCAD Options [OP] Saving the Drawing ?Places? for Quicker Access of Drawings Wheel Mouse Tidbits The Governing Body of Workspaces Ribbon Management Layer Properties Manager Assigning a Linetype to a New Layer Off vs. Freeze Practical Features of Layer Walk Creating a Layer State Freezing Individual Layers with Layer Freeze Layer Lock Creating Drawings with AutoCAD Accuracy Measuring a Distance Measuring an Area Creating Basic Objects Object Selection Options Basic Editing Commands Polar Tracking Editing Polylines Variable Width Polyline Command Aliases Move and Copy with ?CTRL? Customizing Rollover Tooltips Cycle Through Stacked Objects Additional Selection Options Stretch Midpoint Between Two Points [M2P] Snap From Hatch Stuff Additional course details: Nexus Humans AutoCAD Essentials training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the AutoCAD Essentials course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.
Duration 5 Days 30 CPD hours This course is intended for This is an intermediate course for POWER i administrators, IBM Business Partners, and anyone else who would like practical knowledge of the features and functions supported by BRMS. Overview Describe the major features and functions of BRMS List the steps to install BRMS on a single system or in a BRMS Network environment Implement a previously defined backup and recovery strategy using BRMS Implement a previously defined archival and retrieval plan, including dynamic retrieval, using BRMS Explain how to utilize a tape drive, tape library system, virtual tape, and optical drive with BRMS Implement and use BRMS using the green screen, System i Navigator, and IBM Navigator for i This course covers the features & functions supported by Backup Recovery & Media Services (BRMS). Learn how to perform the supported functions when using a 5250 emulation session, when using System i Navigator, & when using IBM Navigator for i. Overview of BRMS . Installing BRMS . BRMS policies overview . Media devices and encryption using software and hardware . Overview and implementation of virtual tape, DVD, and optical device support . Creating a simple backup control group . BRMS log . Saving IFS data . Working with backup lists . Parallel save, user exits, and save-while-active . Performing a backup and full system backup . Other backup topics i . Storage locations . Containers . Move management . Media class . Media policies . Media topics . BRMS networking . Scheduling BRMS jobs . Daily maintenance . BRMS reports . Recovery . Tape duplication and label print . Functional usage . Archive . Retrievaltion . TSM Client and BRMS on IBM i . BRMS Enterprise . Summary .
Duration 5 Days 30 CPD hours This course is intended for Ideal candidates include network professionals who are looking to build their foundational knowledge of the ClearPass product portfolio. Overview After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to: Ability to setup ClearPass as a AAA server Demonstrate Configuration Guest, OnGurad, Onboard and Profiling features Integrate with External AD Server Understand Monitoring and Reporting Demonstrate Scaling and deployment of best practices Configure AAA services for both wired and wireless networks Demonstrate the configuration of Aruba Downloadable User Roles. Demonstrate the configuration of Dynamic Segmentation with Aruba switches. This course prepares participants with foundational skills in Network Access Control using the ClearPass product portfolio. This 5-day classroom session includes both instructional modules and labs to teach participants about the major features of the ClearPass portfolio. Participants will learn how to setup ClearPass as an AAA server, and configure the Policy Manager, Guest, OnGuard and Onboard feature sets. In addition, this course covers integration with external Active Directory servers, Monitoring and Reporting, as well as deployment best practices. The student will gain insight into configuring authentication with ClearPass on both wired and wireless networks. Intro to ClearPass BYOD High Level Overview Posture and Profiling Guest and Onboard ClearPass for AAA Policy Service Rules Authentication Authorization and Roles Enforcement Policy and Profiles Authentication and Security Concepts Authentication Types Servers Radius COA Active Directory Certificates Intro to NAD NAD Devices Adding NAD to ClearPass Network Device Groups Network Device Attributes Aruba Controller as NAD Aruba Switch Aruba Instant Monitoring and Troubleshooting Monitoring Troubleshooting Logging Policy Simulation ClearPass Insight Insight Dashboard Insight Reports Insight Alerts Insight Search Insight Administration Insight Replication Active Directory Adding AD as Auth Source Joining AD domain Using AD services External Authentication Multiple AD domains LDAP Static Host Lists SQL Database External Radius Server Guest Guest Account creation Web Login pages Guest Service configuration Self-registration pages Configuring NADS for Guest Guest Manager Deep Dive Web Login Deep Dive Sponsor Approval MAC Caching Onboard Intro to Onboard Basic Onboard Setup Onboard Deepdive Single SSID Onboarding Dual SSID Onboarding Profiling Intro to Profiling Endpoint Analysis Deep Dive Posture Intro to Posture Posture Deployment Options OnGuard Agent Health Collection OnGuard workflow 802.1x with Posture using Persistent/dissolvable agent OnGuard web Login Monitoring and Updates Operation and Admin Users Operations Admin Users Clustering and Redundancy Clustering Redundancy LAB Licensing ClearPass Licensing Base License Applications ClearPass Exchange Intro Examples General HTTP Palo Alto Firewall Configuration Case Study Objectives Discussion Advanced Labs Overview Wired Port Authentication 802.1X for access layer switch ports Profiling on Wired Network Configuration of Dynamic Segmentation Aruba Downloadable User Roles Downloadable User Role Enforcement in ClearPass Aruba Controller/Gateway configuration Aruba Switch configuration Troubleshooting
Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for This class is intended for the following participants: Cloud architects, administrators, and SysOps/DevOps personnel Individuals using Google Cloud Platform to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and infrastructure with the Google Cloud Platform. Overview This course teaches participants the following skills: Understand how software containers work Understand the architecture of Kubernetes Understand the architecture of Google Cloud Platform Understand how pod networking works in Kubernetes Engine Create and manage Kubernetes Engine clusters using the GCP Console and gcloud/ kubectl commands Launch, roll back and expose jobs in Kubernetes Manage access control using Kubernetes RBAC and Google Cloud IAM Managing pod security policies and network policies Using Secrets and ConfigMaps to isolate security credentials and configuration artifacts Understand GCP choices for managed storage services Monitor applications running in Kubernetes Engine This class introduces participants to deploying and managing containerized applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and the other services provided by Google Cloud Platform. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as pods, containers, deployments, and services; as well as networks and application services. This course also covers deploying practical solutions including security and access management, resource management, and resource monitoring. Introduction to Google Cloud Platform Use the Google Cloud Platform Console Use Cloud Shell Define cloud computing Identify GCPs compute services Understand regions and zones Understand the cloud resource hierarchy Administer your GCP resources Containers and Kubernetes in GCP Create a container using Cloud Build Store a container in Container Registry Understand the relationship between Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Understand how to choose among GCP compute platforms Kubernetes Architecture Understand the architecture of Kubernetes: pods, namespaces Understand the control-plane components of Kubernetes Create container images using Google Cloud Build Store container images in Google Container Registry Create a Kubernetes Engine cluster Kubernetes Operations Work with the kubectl command Inspect the cluster and Pods View a Pods console output Sign in to a Pod interactively Deployments, Jobs, and Scaling Create and use Deployments Create and run Jobs and CronJobs Scale clusters manually and automatically Configure Node and Pod affinity Get software into your cluster with Helm charts and Kubernetes Marketplace GKE Networking Create Services to expose applications that are running within Pods Use load balancers to expose Services to external clients Create Ingress resources for HTTP(S) load balancing Leverage container-native load balancing to improve Pod load balancing Define Kubernetes network policies to allow and block traffic to pods Persistent Data and Storage Use Secrets to isolate security credentials Use ConfigMaps to isolate configuration artifacts Push out and roll back updates to Secrets and ConfigMaps Configure Persistent Storage Volumes for Kubernetes Pods Use StatefulSets to ensure that claims on persistent storage volumes persist across restarts Access Control and Security in Kubernetes and Kubernetes Engine Understand Kubernetes authentication and authorization Define Kubernetes RBAC roles and role bindings for accessing resources in namespaces Define Kubernetes RBAC cluster roles and cluster role bindings for accessing cluster-scoped resources Define Kubernetes pod security policies Understand the structure of GCP IAM Define IAM roles and policies for Kubernetes Engine cluster administration Logging and Monitoring Use Stackdriver to monitor and manage availability and performance Locate and inspect Kubernetes logs Create probes for wellness checks on live applications Using GCP Managed Storage Services from Kubernetes Applications Understand pros and cons for using a managed storage service versus self-managed containerized storage Enable applications running in GKE to access GCP storage services Understand use cases for Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Firestore, and Bigquery from within a Kubernetes application