Attention Developers - Data Engineering on Google Cloud Platform Specialization

Colleagues, this five-week, accelerated online specialization provides participants a hands-on introduction to designing and building data processing systems on Google Cloud Platform. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hand-on labs, participants will learn how to design data processing systems, build end-to-end data pipelines, analyze data and carry out machine learning. The course covers structured, unstructured, and streaming data. This course teaches the following skills: Design and build data processing systems on Google Cloud Platform, Leverage unstructured data using Spark and ML APIs on Cloud Dataproc, Process batch and streaming data by implementing auto scaling data pipelines on Cloud Dataflow, Derive business insights from extremely large datasets using Google Big Query, Train, evaluate and predict using machine learning models using Tensorflow and Cloud ML, Enable instant insights from streaming data.

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Take your open source skills to the next level - OpenStack Administration Fundamentals (LFS252) from the Linux Foundation

Colleagues, this course will present the full range of OpenStack services, including deployment, administration, usage and distributed storage, how to deploy multiple distros and provision virtual machines using OpenStack services. create and deploy enterprise Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and how to run and troubleshoot Neutron, Ceph and Nova Services. Skills you will learn include: Cloud Fundamentals, Managing Guest Virtual Machines with OpenStack Compute Components of an OpenStack Cloud, Reference Architecture, Deploying Prerequisite Services, Deploying Services Overview, Advanced Software Defined Networking with Neutron, Distributed Cloud Storage with Ceph, OpenStack Object Storage with Swift, High Availability in the Cloud, Cloud Security with OpenStack, Monitoring and Metering, and Cloud Automation. Register today at https://tinyurl.com/yarw5nma Much career success, Lawrence Wilson (https://onlinelearningcentral.blogspot.com/)

Attention all programmers and cloud experts – master the Principles of Microsoft Machine Learning

Colleagues, this course is part of the Microsoft Professional Program Certificate in Data Science and Microsoft Professional Program in Artificial Intelligence. Machine learning uses computers to run predictive models that learn from existing data in order to forecast future behaviors, outcomes, and trends. You will be given clear explanations of machine learning theory combined with practical scenarios and hands-on experience building, validating, and deploying machine learning models. You will learn how to build and derive insights from these models using R, Python, and Azure Machine Learning. Learning objectives include: Explore classification, Regression in machine learning, improve supervised models, non-linear modeling, clustering, and recommender systems. The hands-on elements of this course leverage a combination of R, Python, and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning. Register today at https://tinyurl.com/ycqgg4z5 Much career success, Lawrence Wilson (https://onlinelearningcentral.blogspot.com/)

Finance Professionals – Is it Time to Become FMVA Certified? Consider Fixed Income Fundamentals Training

Colleagues, this 2-part series from the Corporate Finance Institute (CFI) will introduce you to the main products and players in the fixed income markets. It illustrates the points covered using real market data and examples of the most commonly used Bloomberg screens for bonds. Core concepts such as bond pricing, duration, and yield curves are covered in detail. Skills you will acquire include learning the key features of fixed income securities and bonds, understanding the yield curve and what it represents, tracking yield curve changes throughout the economic cycle, using DCF to price bonds, learning the relationship between bond prices and yields, and using duration to learn how bond prices move in the market. Register today at https://tinyurl.com/ydgw88tn

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Career Opportunities Abound - Microsoft Professional Program in Artificial Intelligence

Colleagues, the Microsoft AI track takes aspiring AI engineers from a basic introduction of AI to mastery of the skills needed to build deep learning models for AI solutions that exhibit human-like behavior and intelligence. Built with the focus of teaching students how to build deep learning predictive models for AI, the Microsoft Professional Program Certificate in Artificial Intelligence will help you learn the skills you need to build the intelligent future. The certification curriculum includes Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI), Introduction to Python for Data Science, Essential Mathematics for Artificial Intelligence: Python Edition, Ethics and Law in Data and Analytics, Data Science Research Methods: Python Edition, Principles of Machine Learning: Python Edition, Deep Learning Explained, Reinforcement Learning Explained, Computer Vision and Image Analysis     Course 9b - Speech Recognition Systems, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Microsoft Professional Capstone: Artificial Intelligence. Enroll today at https://tinyurl.com/yadqyt2g Much career success, Lawrence Wilson (https://onlinelearningcentral.blogspot.com/)

Launch your Blockchain career - Hyperledger Fabric Fundamentals from the Linux Foundation)

Colleagues, this course will equip you to understand how business logic is implemented in Hyperledger Fabric through chaincode (Hyperledger Fabric’s smart contracts), how to review the various transaction types used to read from and write to the distributed ledger, and how your applications can invoke transactions using the Hyperledger Fabric Javascript SDK. Key topics to be addressed include Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology, Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Fabric Transactions, Hyperledger Fabric Transactions – Full Cycle, and Membership Services, MSPs, and Channels. Enroll today at https://tinyurl.com/y8kwo8v6 Much career success, Lawrence Wilson (https://onlinelearningcentral.blogspot.com/)

Digital Marketing Professionals … this course is for you - Display Advertising Certification Training

Colleagues, Simplilearn’s course on Display Advertising, provides insight on everything a participant needs to know, starting with which ad-options are best suited for a campaign to the utilization of cookies. The course offers a comprehensive insight into this amazing opportunity for digital advertisers and enhances the ability of the professional to remarket campaigns. This course will equip digital marketing pros to Learn the fundamentals on the various aspects of Display Advertising, how to reach a larger pool of Target audience through Display Ads, Master skills involved in designing Display Ads, various types of display ads and best practices, Learn about the latest  Target Strategies for display ads, Harness the power of remarketing and retargeting solely through Display Ads, and Learn about measurements and techniques regarding Display Ads. Enroll today at  https://tinyurl.com/ycu5kb8b Much career success, Lawrence Wilson (https://onlinelearningcentral.blogspot.com/)

Prepare for CCNA certification - Expand Cisco Network Security (IINS) v3.0

Colleagues, Cisco E-Learning IINS v3.0 is an all-inclusive e-learning solution designed to prepare CCNA Security candidates for the exam topics covered by the 210-260 IINS exam. Course content is presented in easily-consumable segments via both Instructor Video and text. Interactivity is enabled through Discovery labs, content review questions, and graded Challenge labs and tests. Course objectives include: Describe common network security concepts. Secure routing and switching infrastructure, deploy basic authentication, authorization and accounting services, deploy basic firewalling services, deploy basic site-to-site and remote access VPN services, and Describe the use of more advanced security services such as intrusion protection, content security and identity management. Enroll today at  https://tinyurl.com/y8k5hu5c Much career success, Lawrence Wilson (https://onlinelearningcentral.blogspot.com/)

Expand your open source platform expertise - Apache Kafka Certification

Colleagues, the Apache Kafka course offered by Simplilearn is a key requirement for those aspiring to become Big Data Hadoop architects. Apache Kafka is an open-source stream processing platform and a high-performance real-time messaging system that can process millions of messages per second. It provides a distributed and partitioned messaging system that is highly fault tolerant. This Kafka Training course will guide participants through Kafka architecture, installation, interfaces and configuration on their way to learning the advanced concepts of Big Data. You will gain an understanding of Apache Kafka Architecture, Producers and Consumers, and Advanced Kafka Internals. Enroll today at https://tinyurl.com/y7wcuxrl Much career success, Lawrence Wilson (https://onlinelearningcentral.blogspot.com/)

Ride the Cyber Security Tsunami - Cisco Cybersecurity Operations Certification (SECOPS)

Colleagues, Cisco E-Learning for SECOPS v1.0 allows learners to understand how a Security Operations Center (SOC) functions and the introductory-level skills and knowledge needed in this environment. Students in this course obtain the core skills needed to grasp the associate-level materials in the 210-255 SECOPS exam, which when combined with passing the 210-250 SECFND exam, leads to the Cisco CCNA Cyber Ops certification. Course objectives include: Define an SOC and the various job roles in an SOC, Understand SOC infrastructure tools and systems, Learn basic incident analysis for a threat-centric SOC, Explore resources available to assist with an investigation, Explain basic event correlation and normalization, Describe common attack vectors, Learn how to identify malicious activity, Understand the concept of a playbook, Describe and explain an incident respond handbook, Define types of SOC metrics, and Understand SOC Workflow Management system and automation. Enroll today at https://tinyurl.com/yaexeu8l Much career success, Lawrence Wilson (https://onlinelearningcentral.blogspot.com/)

Take your networking career to the next level - Cisco Cloud Administration (CLDADM)

Colleagues, Cisco E-Learning for CLDADM v1.2 is designed to help students prepare for the CCNA Cloud certification. This course is designed to provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills to perform the essentials of Cloud administration and operations. Those preparing for associate-level cloud operational jobs, or who wish to certify at the Cisco CCNA Cloud level, can now take the official training in self-paced format. The e-learning format of this course offers an immersive, practice-based learning experience at your own pace. Learning objectives include: Identify the components of the Cisco Cloud management software solution, Understand the fundamentals of Cloud infrastructure administration, describe reporting and charge-back, and Provision Clouds using pre-configured templates. Applications. Cisco UCS Director, Cisco Prime Service Catalog, and Virtual Application Container Services are the management software applications to be addressed.

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Expand your technology program management career growth - ITIL® Managing across the Lifecycle (MALC) Certification

Colleagues, The ITIL Managing Across the Lifecycle (MALC) certification training tests and validates a professional’s knowledge of the key content topics of the ITIL publication, including management objectives, purposes and functions. This course is designed to help you understand the management aspects of the ITIL Service Lifecycle and integrate service management processes. The course is the final module in attaining ITIL Expert Certification in IT Service Management. You will gain skills in the following areas: Key Concepts of the Service Lifecycle, Communication and Stakeholder Management, Integrating Service Management Processes,  Managing Services Across the Service Lifecycle, Governance and Organization, Measurement, Implementing and Improving Service Management Capability, and Summary and Directed Studies. Register today at https://tinyurl.com/y86l4r4r Much career success, Lawrence Wilson (https://onlinelearningcentral.blogspot.com/)

Begin your journey to FMVA certification – Real Estate Financial Modeling (REFM) Course from the Corporate Finance Institute

Colleagues, build a dynamic Real Estate Financial Model to evaluate the investment return profile of a development project in Excel. This Excel-based real estate financial modeling course is designed for development professionals, lending/banking analysts, surveyors, and anyone interested in mastering the art of building a real estate development models from scratch. You will learn about Cap Rates and NOI, Land Loans and Construction Loans, Real Estate Development Model, Joint Ventures and Cash Flow Waterfalls, Financial Analysis Output, Final Product, and Qualified Assessments. Register today at https://tinyurl.com/y8wtknop Much career success, Lawrence Wilson (https://onlinelearningcentral.blogspot.com/)

Advance your SDN career - Software Defined Networking with OpenDaylight (LFS465)

Colleagues, SDN (Software Defined Networking) abstracts networking infrastructure away from the actual physical equipment. This allows network system administrators to maintain the networking environment across multiple vendors and hardware, and operating systems and versions. This course is designed to provide Developers and advanced Network Engineers exposure to modeling in Open Source Software Defined Networking (SDN). We first discuss the context of SDN components then progress to show the code created through modeling in OpenDaylight. This course concludes by writing an application from scratch. Key topics include Open vSwitch, Simulation and Observation, SDN – History and Evolution, SDN Programmability, OpenFlow, Network Virtualization and Multi-tenancy, Introduction to OpenDaylight, YANG, Apache Karaf – the OSGi container, OpenDaylight Controller and MD-SAL, Eclipse Setup and Importing OpenDaylight, Observing and Logging OpenDaylight, and Writing an Application using OpenDaylight. Register today at  https://tinyurl.com/yaypv78f Much career success, Lawrence Wilson (https://onlinelearningcentral.blogspot.com/)

Begin 2019 by jumpstarting your digital marketing skills - Advanced Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Certification

Colleagues, the Advanced Search Engine Optimization (SEO) course is designed to transform you into an industry-ready SEO professional from day one. You’ll master the many facets of SEO, including the process of organically driving traffic to your websites with keyword management and research, on-page and off-page optimization, link building, URL building, SEO analytics and more and you’ll acquire extensive project experience to prepare you for managing inbound marketing initiatives. Specific skills you will learn include Introduction to SEO, A Model of Search Engines, On-Page Optimization, Off-Site Optimization, Duplicate Content, Keyword Research and Competitive Intelligence, Design and Architecture, Local SEO, Myths about SEO Measurement, Algorithm Updates and SEO Changes, Integrating SEO with Other Disciplines, Website Management and Optimization, Content Marketing, and Advanced Web Analytics. Register today at https://tinyurl.com/ycqd8kjv Much career success, Lawrence Wilson (https://onlinelearningcentral.blogspot.com/)

Launch your big data and visualization career with Tableau Desktop 10 Certification Training

Colleagues, the Tableau training course by Simplilearn helps you master the various aspects of Tableau Desktop 10 and gain skills such as building visualization, organizing data, and designing dashboards. You will also learn concepts of statistics, mapping, and data connection. The course includes an industry-based project and 2 simulation exams to prepare you for Tableau Desktop 10 Qualified Associate certification. It is best suited for software developers, BI professionals, system and administrators.  The Tableau online training provided by Simplilearn is designed to ensure you pass the Tableau Desktop 10 Qualified Associate certification exam and are ready to begin a new job assignment requiring Tableau Desktop expertise. The Tableau training focuses on acquiring important skills you can use on the job such as using statistical tools and analytics, creating reports and dashboards, and mastering the many aspects of data visualization. Register today at https://tinyurl.com/y7c4jquv Much career success, Lawrence Wilson (https://onlinelearningcentral.blogspot.com/)