The Advanced Series has been developed to address the requirements of individuals who work in specific areas such as XML, data privacy, Web enablement, etc. Each Advanced Series course addresses a particular topic area and covers it in sufficient detail to provide the participant with both the knowledge and the skills to become more effective in their work. In addition, all courses offer a variety of hands-on workshops, and/or case study problems to assist in the development of practical skills.
Web-Based Courses
Virtualizing the infrastructure offers tremendous opportunity to reduce total cost of ownership and improve disaster recovery. However, implementing an optimal configuration requires a thorough knowledge of the technology along with practical experience. This course prepares you to manage a vSphere-based enterprise environment using the vCenter Server 4.0 and ESXi 4.0 Server.

In this course, you gain the key knowledge and experience required to leverage both the business and technical benefits of cloud computing. You develop an effective implementation strategy and learn to build and deploy applications to the cloud.

In this course, you gain a comprehensive technical introduction to TCP/IP. Extensive hands-on exercises provide the practical experience you need to configure a host, employ TCP/IP tools and protocol analysis techniques, use application services, and access TCP/IP-based internetworks. You learn how to identify the role of each TCP/IP component and use all major TCP/IP application services.

In this course, you gain the knowledge and skills to design, implement, verify and troubleshoot an IPv6 network within your organization. You learn to simplify network management, ensure the compliance of applications, build tunnels and dual stacks to achieve IPv6 and IPv4 coexistence, and secure communication using IPsec.

As GM opens its network to the public, it will also begin collecting a wide range of consumer/public information. How can this information be secured? What are the responsibilities of GM applications to provide privacy? What technologies exist to implement these data privacy requirements? What are the global implications? This course will cover these issues and provide the participants with the information that they need.

In this course, you gain the skills to secure wireless networks against threats and attacks. You implement the WPA2 and 802.11i security standards, encrypt wireless traffic using Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) or Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), and deploy wireless intrusion detection systems (WIDS).

Developing a network infrastructure that supports voice, data and video applications provides a significant opportunity to reduce costs, improve productivity and increase efficiency. This course covers the complex technologies needed to integrate telecommunications and data networking. Through an evolving case study, you assess the conflicting requirements of mixed-media applications to develop an integrated network solution.

Web-Based Courses
In this course, you learn how to analyze risks to your networks and the countermeasures to reduce your exposure to network threats. You learn how to identify security risks, protect network users from hostile applications and viruses, reduce your susceptibility to an attack by using data encryption, and manage risks emanating from inside your organization and from the Internet.

In this course, you configure and use scanners to detect and respond to vulnerabilities that put your organization at risk. You employ real-world exploits and evaluate their effect on your systems, analyze the results of vulnerability scans, and establish a strategy for vulnerability management.

In this course, you apply the latest Windows-based computer forensic techniques to uncover illicit activity, recover lost data and counteract security threats. You learn how to implement an incident response strategy, conduct disk-based analysis, and reconstruct user activity from e-mail, temporary Internet files and cached data.

In this course, you gain the skills to secure wireless networks against threats and attacks. You implement the WPA2 and 802.11i security standards, encrypt wireless traffic using Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) or Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), and deploy wireless intrusion detection systems (WIDS).

This course provides in-depth, hands-on experience securing Web-based applications and the servers they run on. You learn to configure a Web server to encrypt Web traffic with HTTPS, identify, diagnose and correct the most serious Web application vulnerabilities, protect Ajax-powered applications and secure XML Web services with WS-Security.

Cloud computing is revolutionizing all aspects of IT, including hardware, operating systems and applications. Faced with a rapidly changing business environment, organizations are under pressure to respond with a flexible IT infrastructure and applications. In this course, you gain the key knowledge and experience required to leverage both the business and technical benefits of cloud computing. You develop an effective implementation strategy and learn to build and deploy applications to the cloud.

Securing the network infrastructure has become a top priority and a major technical challenge for most organizations. Windows Server 2008 provides powerful and complex technologies for decreasing network risk and improving policy compliance. This course provides you with the knowledge and skills necessary to correctly implement these solutions.

ISO/IEC 27000 is a globally-recognized set of standards that outlines best practices in information security for your organization. This course prepares you for the EXIN ISF Certification exam based on ISO/IEC 27002. You gain knowledge of standard security terminologies and practices needed to pass the examination.

Web-Based Courses
SharePoint 2010 builds on the success of previous versions and offers significant enhancements in the areas of information management, administration, enterprise services and social computing. Through an in-depth case study approach, you learn how the new features in SharePoint 2010 can deliver compelling business benefits for the enterprise. This overview provides the tools to assess the potential value SharePoint 2010 can bring to your organization.

In this course, you gain hands-on experience with XML and related technologies, including XSL, schemas, XPath XQuery and DOM. You learn to access and modify information within an XML document using the Document Object Model (DOM), dynamically transform XML documents into various display formats and implement strategies to secure XML data interchange.

In this intensive hands-on course, you develop and sharpen skills to create compelling Web content that attracts visitors and provides value. You learn to cultivate a writing voice and style that serve both reader and stakeholder needs, summarize content for improved clarity and scanning, and write organized content using effective headings, paragraphs and segments. You also learn to satisfy Web accessibility and Section 508 guidelines to broaden audience usability.

SharePoint 2010 technologies provide a unified business collaboration platform for the enterprise and the Web, allowing for streamlined document management, simplified organization-wide access to information, and the ability to deploy customized solutions quickly and securely. In this course, you acquire the fundamental knowledge and critical skills to create, manage and customize SharePoint 2010 across your enterprise.

This course provides a foundational understanding of the concepts necessary to model, implement and strategically deploy an SOA within your organization. You learn to exploit SOA technology to reduce application development time, leverage architecturally sound best practices using workflow visualization and service orchestration, and apply proven SOA standards to achieve platform interoperability and integration of legacy systems.

Without proper planning and oversight, SharePoint sites can become difficult to control and manage. It is critical to implement a process that aligns business objectives with site implementation. A governance plan establishes the balance between proper control mechanisms and the innovative use of SharePoint collaboration. The plan is a road map for deploying and maintaining the efficient use of SharePoint technologies. In this course, you develop a governance plan to maximize your organization's return on its SharePoint investment.

Web-Based Courses
In this course, you learn how to build enterprise Java applications using the industry-standard Spring and Hibernate frameworks. Through intensive hands-on exercises, you gain the skills to implement high-performance applications while reducing development time; apply robust transaction-handling policies; and modularize functionality using Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP). You also learn how to optimize data access with Hibernate Query Language (HQL).

In this course, you learn to generate and interpret Unified Modeling Language (UML) models as applied to a wide range of activities, using the significant extensions and enhancements of UML 2. You learn to capture and document user requirements, ensure consistency and accuracy throughout all diagrams, and represent design patterns in UML. You also gain experience in modeling behavior with interaction, state machine and activity diagrams, and generating HTML and textual documentation.

This course provides practical skills in the latest object-oriented (OO) analysis and design methods. You learn to exploit the rich modeling concepts provided by Unified Modeling Language (UML), identify use cases and expand them into full behavioral designs, apply proven design patterns to refine analysis and design models, and construct testable and adaptable designs.

This course provides a comprehensive foundation for designing, building and working with relational databases, enabling you to understand and participate in the development process. You learn to capture the structure of an existing database with a CASE tool, apply normalization to data for effective and stable database design, and build a relational database from the logical database design.

In this course, you gain a solid foundation to maximize Oracle 11g and develop robust databases for your organization.

Agile methodologies, including Scrum and XP, cost, increases quality and speed time to market. In this course, you gain a solid foundation in Agile programming principles. Through an immersive study, you acquire the practical knowledge and skills to plan, code and implement a successful Agile software project.

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