Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for This is an introductory-level course, designed for anyone wanting to learn Linux. Attendees should be comfortable working with computers and the command line, but no other specific skills are required to attend. Overview This skills-focused course is about 50% lab to lecture ratio, combining expert instructor-led discussions with practical hands-on labs that emphasize current techniques, best practices and standards. Working in a hands-on lab environment, guided by our expert practitioner, attendees will explore The Design of Linux Basic Operations File System Basics Wildcards File and Directory Permissions Working with files Executing Programs Using find Filters and other useful commands The vi editor Customizing the user environment Networking/Communications Backups and archiving This hands-on course provides you with an essentials-level foundation in core skills for using any version of Linux. This course focuses on essential skills that ordinary users might use daily when working with Linux. The Design of Linux A brief history of Linux The Linux design philosophy Linux architecture Basic Operations Logging in and out The general form of a Linux command Common commands Using man pages Essential commands File System Basics The Linux directory structure Standard directories Relative and absolute pathnames Legal file names Navigating the filesystem Wildcards Matching one character Matching many characters Shortcuts Wildcard gotchas Wildcards and ls File and Directory Permissions Viewing permissions File permissions Directory permissions Setting defaults Changing permissions Keeping data secure Working with files Viewing contents Identifying file contents Copying and moving Deleting Using symbolic links Executing Programs Redirecting STDOUT Redirecting STDERR Redirecting STDIN Creating pipelines Processes attributes Listing processes Killing processes Foreground & background processes Using find Syntax Finding by name, type, or size Combining tests Finding by size, owner, or timestamps Using xargs with find Other find options Filters and other useful commands What is a filter? cat: a generic filter head and tail grep sort wc other interesting filters The vi editor Why vi? Basic vi operations: navigating, adding, deleting Advanced operations: buffer management, search and replace, configuration options Customizing the user environment About shells Shell startup files Shell variables Search path Aliases Simple shell scripts Networking/Communications Reading and sending mail Remote login Remote file transfer Other network utilities (ping, finger, etc) Backups and archiving Checking space used or available Creating tar archives Viewing and extracting files from archives Compression utilities Working with windows
Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for In order to be successful in this class, incoming attendees are required to have current, hands-on experience in developing basic web applications, and be versed in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. This is an introductory level Angular development course but an intermediate level web development class, designed for experienced web developers that need to further extend their skills in web development Overview Working within in an engaging, hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will learn to: What Angular is and why should you use it How Angular reduces the amount of code that you must write to add rich functionality to both existing and new web pages What TypeScript is, why it is useful, and how to use it with Angular How to facilitate development and deployment using Angular CLI How to work with the various aspects of the Angular architecture to implement clean, responsive web interfaces How Routers can support navigation within a Single Page Application What the best practices are for using Angular so that it works unobtrusively and performs well How to use Angular with HTTP to support JSON, REST, and other services Best practices for Angular so that it works unobtrusively and performs well Angular is one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks for creating web and native mobile applications. This introductory course thoroughly explores the latest Angular features and advances, demonstrating how to solve the traditional challenges of JavaScript web application development. You will build custom components, using application routes, form validation, and unit-testing and delve into component-driven development with Angular components. Angular Overview Overview of Angular Architecture Getting Started with Angular Getting Started with TypeScript Bootstrapping with Angular CLI Angular Project Structure Unit Testing with Angular Testing and Angular Working with Angular Components and Events Third Party Libraries Dynamic Views Pipes Angular Forms Forms and the Forms API Single Page Applications and Routes Single Page Applications Services and Dependency Injection Modules Using RESTful Services Overview of REST Angular and REST Angular Best Practices Angular Style Guide What is New in Angular 9 Additional Topics (Time Permitting) Lesson: ES6+ Sass and SCSS for Angular and Material
Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for This is an introductory-level course designed to teach experienced systems administrators how to install, maintain, monitor, troubleshoot, optimize, and secure Hadoop. Previous Hadoop experience is not required. Overview Working within in an engaging, hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will learn to: Understand the benefits of distributed computing Understand the Hadoop architecture (including HDFS and MapReduce) Define administrator participation in Big Data projects Plan, implement, and maintain Hadoop clusters Deploy and maintain additional Big Data tools (Pig, Hive, Flume, etc.) Plan, deploy and maintain HBase on a Hadoop cluster Monitor and maintain hundreds of servers Pinpoint performance bottlenecks and fix them Apache Hadoop is an open source framework for creating reliable and distributable compute clusters. Hadoop provides an excellent platform (with other related frameworks) to process large unstructured or semi-structured data sets from multiple sources to dissect, classify, learn from and make suggestions for business analytics, decision support, and other advanced forms of machine intelligence. This is an introductory-level, hands-on lab-intensive course geared for the administrator (new to Hadoop) who is charged with maintaining a Hadoop cluster and its related components. You will learn how to install, maintain, monitor, troubleshoot, optimize, and secure Hadoop. Introduction Hadoop history and concepts Ecosystem Distributions High level architecture Hadoop myths Hadoop challenges (hardware / software) Planning and installation Selecting software and Hadoop distributions Sizing the cluster and planning for growth Selecting hardware and network Rack topology Installation Multi-tenancy Directory structure and logs Benchmarking HDFS operations Concepts (horizontal scaling, replication, data locality, rack awareness) Nodes and daemons (NameNode, Secondary NameNode, HA Standby NameNode, DataNode) Health monitoring Command-line and browser-based administration Adding storage and replacing defective drives MapReduce operations Parallel computing before MapReduce: compare HPC versus Hadoop administration MapReduce cluster loads Nodes and Daemons (JobTracker, TaskTracker) MapReduce UI walk through MapReduce configuration Job config Job schedulers Administrator view of MapReduce best practices Optimizing MapReduce Fool proofing MR: what to tell your programmers YARN: architecture and use Advanced topics Hardware monitoring System software monitoring Hadoop cluster monitoring Adding and removing servers and upgrading Hadoop Backup, recovery, and business continuity planning Cluster configuration tweaks Hardware maintenance schedule Oozie scheduling for administrators Securing your cluster with Kerberos The future of Hadoop
Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for Operators of Juniper Networks security solutions, including network engineers, administrators, support personnel, and resellers. Overview Identify high-level security challenges in today's networks. Identify products that are incorporated into the Juniper Connected Security solution. Explain the value of implementing security solutions. Explain how Juniper Connected Security solves the cyber security challenges of the future. Explain the SRX Series devices and the added capabilities that next-generation firewalls provide. Explain traffic flows through the SRX Series devices. List the different security objects and how to create them. Describe interface types and perform basic interface configuration tasks. Describe the initial configuration for an SRX Series device. Explain security zones. Describe screens and their use. Explain address objects. Describe services and their use. Describe the purpose for security policies on an SRX Series device. Describe zone-based policies. Describe global policies and their use. Explain unified security policies. Configure unified security policies with the J-Web user interface. Describe IDP signatures. Configure an IDP policy using predefined templates with the J-Web user interface. Describe the use and configuration of the integrated user firewall feature. Describe the UTM security services List the available UTM services on the SRX Series device. Configure UTM filtering on a security policy with the J-Web user interface. Explain Sky ATP's use in security. Describe how Sky ATP and SRX Series devices operate together in blocking threats. Describe NAT and why it is used. Explain source NAT and when to use it. Explain destination NAT and when to use it. Explain static NAT and its uses. Describe the operation and configuration the different types of NAT. Identify various types of VPNs. Describe IPsec VPNs and their functionality. Describe how IPsec VPNs are established. Describe IPsec traffic processing. Configure IPsec VPNs with the J-Web user interface. Describe and configure proxy IDs and traffic selectors with the J-Web user interface. Monitor IPsec VPNs with the J-Web user interface. Describe the J-Web monitoring features. Explain the J-Web reporting features. Describe the Sky Enterprise service and how it can save resources. Explain the functionality of Junos Space Security Director. This course is designed to provide students with the foundational knowledge required to work with SRX Series devices. This course will use the J-Web user interface to introduce students to the Junos operating system. Module 1: COURSE INTRODUCTION COURSE INTRODUCTION Module 2: Juniper Security Concept Security Challenges Security Design Overview Juniper Connected Security Module 3: Juniper Connected Security ? SRX Series Devices Connected Security Interfaces Initial Configuration LAB 1: Initial Configuration Module 4: Security Objects Security Zone Objects Security Screen Objects Security Address Objects Security Services Objects LAB 2: Creating Security Objects with J-Web Module 5: Security Policies Security Policy Overview Zone-Based Policies Global Security Policies Application Firewall with Unified Security Policies LAB 3: Creating Security Policies with J-Web Module 6: Security Services ? IDP and User Firewall IDP Security Services Integrated User Firewall LAB 4: Adding IDP and User Firewall Security Services to Security Policies Module 7: Security Services ? UTM Content Filtering Web Filtering Antivirus Antispam LAB 5: Adding UTM Security Services to Security Policies Module 8: Juniper Connected Security ? Sky AT Sky ATP Overview Blocking Threats Lab 6: Demonstrating Sky ATP Module 9: Network Address Translation NAT Overview Source NAT Destination NAT Static NAT Lab 7: Implementing Network Address Translation Module 10: IPsec VPN Concepts VPN Types Secure VPN Requirements IPsec Tunnel Establishment IPsec Traffic Processing Module 11: Site-to-Site VPNs IPsec Configuration IPsec Site-to-Site Tunne Lab 8: Implementing Site-to-Site IPsec VPNs Module 12: Monitoring and Reporting J-Web monitoring options J-Web Reporting options Lab 9: Using Monitoring and Reporting Appendix A: SRX Series Hardware Appendix D: Sky Enterprise Services Appendix B: Virtual SRX Appendix EJunos Space Security Director Appendix CCLI Prime
Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is designed for people who want to learn the Python programming language in preparation for using Python to develop software for a wide range of applications, such as data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and web development. Overview In this course, you will develop simple command-line programs in Python. You will: Set up Python and develop a simple application. Declare and perform operations on simple data types, including strings, numbers, and dates. Declare and perform operations on data structures, including lists, ranges, tuples, dictionaries, and sets. Write conditional statements and loops. Define and use functions, classes, and modules. Manage files and directories through code. Deal with exceptions. Though Python has been in use for nearly thirty years, it has become one of the most popular languages for software development, particularly within the fields of data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and web development?all areas in which Python is widely used. Whether you're relatively new to programming, or have experience in other programming languages, this course will provide you with a comprehensive first exposure to the Python programming language that can provide you with a quick start in Python, or as the foundation for further learning. You will learn elements of the Python 3 language and development strategies by creating a complete program that performs a wide range of operations on a variety of data types, structures, and objects, implements program logic through conditional statements and loops, structures code for reusability through functions, classes, and modules, reads and writes files, and handles error conditions. Lesson 1: Setting Up Python and Developing a Simple Application Topic A: Set Up the Development Environment Topic B: Write Python Statements Topic C: Create a Python Application Topic D: Prevent Errors Lesson 2: Processing Simple Data Types Topic A: Process Strings and Integers Topic B: Process Decimals, Floats, and Mixed Number Types Lesson 3: Processing Data Structures Topic A: Process Ordered Data Structures Topic B: Process Unordered Data Structures Lesson 4: Writing Conditional Statements and Loops in Python Topic A: Write a Conditional Statement Topic B: Write a Loop Lesson 5: Structuring Code for Reuse Topic A: Define and Call a Function Topic B: Define and Instantiate a Class Topic C: Import and Use a Module Lesson 6: Writing Code to Process Files and Directories Topic A: Write to a Text File Topic B: Read from a Text File Topic C: Get the Contents of a Directory Topic D: Manage Files and Directories Lesson 7: Dealing with Exceptions Topic A: Handle Exceptions Topic B: Raise Exceptions
Duration 5 Days 30 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is intended for new and experienced programmers that want to learn how to write and troubleshoot Python code. This is the Microsoft recommended course for preparing for the 98-381 test. Previous programming experience is not required but recommended. Overview By the end of this course, you will be able to: Create Operations using Data Types and Operators Create Control Flow Operations Create Input and Output Operations Write and Document code to solve a specified problem Troubleshoot Problems and Write Error Handling Operations Perform Operations Using Modules and Tools This five-day instructor-led course (three-day boot camp) is intended for students who want to learn how to write, debug and document Python code Module 1: Perform Operations Using Data Types and Operators Assign data types to variables Perform data and data type operations Perform Arithmetic, Comparison and Logical Operations Review Module 2: Control Flow with Decisions and Loops Construct and analyze code segments that use branching statements Construct and analyze code segments that perform iterations Review Module 3: Perform Input and Output Operations Create Python code segments that perform file input and output operations Create Python code segments that perform console input and output operations Review Module 4: Document and Structure Code Construct and analyze code segments Document code segments using comments and documentation strings Review Module 5: Perform Troubleshooting and Error Handling Analyze, Detect and Fix code segments that have errors Analyze and construct code segments that handle exceptions Review Module 6: Perform Operations Using Modules and Tools Use Built-In Modules to perform basic operations Use Built-In Modules to perform complex operations Review
Duration 1 Days 6 CPD hours This course is intended for Software Engineers Overview The objective of this course is to learn the key language concepts to machine learning, Spark MLlib, and Spark ML. This course will teach you the key language concepts to machine learning, Spark MLlib, and Spark ML. The course includes coverage of collaborative filtering, clustering, classification, algorithms, and data volume. This course will teach you the key language concepts to machine learning, Spark MLlib, and Spark ML. The course includes coverage of collaborative filtering, clustering, classification, algorithms, and data volume.
Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for Attending students should be new to Jira (this is NOT for experienced users), and are required to have a background in basic Enterprise application development Overview This course is approximately 50% hands-on, combining expert lecture, real-world demonstrations and group discussions with machine-based practical labs and exercises. Working in a hands-on learning environment guided by our expert Jira practitioner, students will explore: Getting started with JIRA Using JIRA for Business Projects Using JIRA for Agile Projects Issue Management Field Management Screen Management Workflows and Business Process Searching and Filtering Tracking issues is a critical component of any project management strategy. JIRA provides a web based single repository for creating, tracking and reporting on feature requests, bugs reported, or managing workflow. JumpStart to Jira for End Users is a two-day, lab-intensive course for participants new to Jira, that provides them with a hands-on Jira instance to ?learn by doing?. This course provides essential understanding in the practical use of the Jira in an Agile context, with an emphasis on Best Practices and practical job-ready skills. Getting started with JIRA JIRA Overview Core concepts Terminology Infrastructure Users and Groups JIRA roles Using JIRA for Business Projects Overview of Projects Project types Project screens Tasks and task management Project Management Process Management Using JIRA for Agile Projects Overview of Agile with JIRA (very brief) Kanban overview Running a project with Kanban Configuring agile screen resolving an issue Issue Management Overview of Issues Working with issues Issue cloning Time tracking Issues and comments Tasks and subtasks Field Management Overview of Fields Built-in fields Custom fields Searching Configuring JIRA for fields Screen Management Overview of JIRA screens Working with screens Using screen tabs Issue type screens associating an issue type screen a with a project Customizing JIRA screens Workflow and Business Process Overview of Workflow Mapping business processes Managing workflows Authoring a workflow Updating an existing workflow Workflow schemes Applying a workflow to a project Searching and Reporting Overview of Searching Search screens Basic search Advanced search with JQL Working with search results Reports Dashboards Filters Gadgets Charts Summary and Best Practices Looking back at the ?Big Picture? JIRA Administration Overview Where JIRA fits into the Agile perspective JIRA End-User best practices
This very practical one-day programme provides participants with the skills and knowledge required to be an effective member of the procurement team and to enable them to procure a wide range of resources for the organisation, in a compliant and cost-effective manner. It also empowers them to be able to collaborate with all key stakeholders. By the end of the programme participants will be able to: Understand the basic concepts of good procurement practice Apply a range of tools and techniques for developing scopes of work and specifications Apply various methods to select and evaluate suppliers Develop robust contract award strategies Appreciate the commercial importance of effective procurement and opportunities to reduce cost and add value Develop appropriate procurement strategies depending on risk and value Appreciate the legal aspects of procurement 1 Welcome Introductions Aims and objectives Plan for the day 2 The basics of procurement The concept of total cost of ownership v price The procurement cycle The roles of the customer and the contractor Impact upon profit 3 Specification process Importance of effective specifications Specification development process Types of specification Team approach Use of performance specifications Early supplier involvement (ESI) / early contractor involvement (ECI) 4 Quality Concepts and practices Defining 'fit for purpose' Conformance to requirements Compliance to standards Role of the supplier Quality assurance tools and techniques 5 Procurement methods RFP RFQ ITT Negotiated procurement Strategic partnerships Outsourcing 6 Tendering How to undertake a formal tendering process Business case to award Critical stages in the process Risks and benefits 7 Tender evaluation How to undertake a quotation analysis Tools of analysis Use of VFM models Role of the customer Comparisons around cost, quality, and delivery 8 Supplier selection and evaluation Developing critical selection criteria Using the 10Cs model Importance of effective selection process Weighting systems Importance of validity and evidence 9 Capital equipment procurement Life cycle cost issues Payback calculations Compatibility issues Maintenance and training issues After-sales support 10 Supplier relationships Corporate social responsibility issues Communication 360 feed-back Open and ethical Initial understanding Clear and fair terms and conditions 11 Close Review of key learning points Personal action planning
When staff are new to sales it can seem daunting, especially when they have targets to meet. If the staff you need to promote your products and services get it wrong then it can knock their confidence and negatively impact how your customers see you as an organisation. This programme provides staff with the basic skills they need to sell. This course will help participants: Profile customers Research and identify potential new customers Use the consultative sales process Build effective rapport with customers Identify customer needs through effective questioning and listening Position products and services effectively Close the sale or gain commitment to further action Manage their customer portfolio to maximise sales 1 Introduction Aims and objectives of the training Personal introductions and objectives Self-assessment of existing sales skills Overview of content 2 Knowing your customers Who are your customers, and what do they want from you? What are your strengths, compared to your competitors? Who are your new potential customers? How do you communicate with new customers? What do you need to know about your customers before you start to sell? Making the initial approach Planning your pipeline - keeping the customers coming 3 The four-step sales process Overview of the consultative sales process Key benefits of using the consultative sales process Focusing on behaviours not targets The behaviours of a good salesperson Common pitfalls and mistakes Personal strengths and weaknesses 4 Building rapport First impressions - Mehrabian theory of communication Short cuts to building rapport Looking out for clues as to how the customer is thinking Looping back to keep the conversation flowing Acknowledging past communication Dealing with emotions such as anger Setting the agenda to keep control Getting past gatekeepers 5 Questioning and listening How to ask open questions to uncover information Left brain questions When closed question can be useful What stops us listening? The four levels of listening How to develop your listening skills 6 Presenting products and services to customers When to present Using benefits not features Making it personal Using reciprocity The tendency towards the middle Using consistency 7 Gaining commitment Testing the water Dealing with objections using ACLEO Asking for the business Getting referrals Ending with a personalised close Following-up 8 Managing your customer pipeline Spotting opportunities for cross-sales Managing your portfolio Maximising sales proactively Review meetings Customer satisfaction measures and surveys Mystery shopping 9 Putting it all together Skills practice Personal learning summary and action plans