Docker Certified Associate Training (DCA)

OSS colleagues, the Docker Associate Certification Training (DCA) course is designed keeping in mind the needs of both new learners and professionals looking to appear for the Docker Training course. You will learn the origins of the containerization technology and move on to create and deploy your own containerized applications. Get hands-on experience in using the different storage strategies, deploying multi-container applications using Docker Compose, and managing container clusters using Docker Swarm. Throughout this Instructor-led Docker Certification training, you will be working on real-life industry use cases. Topics covered address: Containerization, History of Containers, Namespaces and Cgroups, Containers vs Virtual Machines, Types of Containers, Introduction to Docker, Docker Architecture, Container Lifecycle along with Docker CE vs Docker EE. Training modules address: 1) The Docker Engine, 2) Image Management and Registry, 3) Storage in Docker, 4) Orchestration in Docker, 5) Networking and Security, 6) Docker EE and Monitoring, and 7) Docker with Kubernetes.

Enroll today (individuals & teams welcome): https://tinyurl.com/5cn4cwj5 

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Certified Android Developer - Android App Development

Developers, this Android Certification training is now certified by Google which plans to train 2M Android developers in next 3 years as the app ecosystem grows stronger with advances in IOT, mobile devices and has chosen  Core training modules include: 1) Introduction to Android Development, 2) Android Layouts, Widgets and Implementing Event Receivers, 3) Activities, Intents, Fragments and Notifications, 4) Customizing Widgets and Constructing Option Menu, 5) Storage, Media and Animations, 6) WebServices, 7) Location and Google Map, 8) Database Framework and Third Party Libraries, 9) Localization, Sensors and Social Media Integration, and 10) End-to-End App Development & Publishing. The Google-authorized Android training course is primarily designed for programmers who want to learn how to create mobile applications on the Android platform. This Android Certification will help you master Android app development, learn how to set up Android Studio, understand Android architecture in detail, learn about integrating your mobile apps with Facebook, Twitter and other social media, Google Drive, Google Maps, SQLite and learn how to create and optimize the app user experience.

Enroll today (individuals & teams welcome): https://tinyurl.com/3uned2zb 

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Embedded Linux Development - Training (LFD450)

OSS colleagues, the Embedded Linux Development (LFD450) from the Linux Foundation will give you the step-by-step framework to develop embedded Linux devices. You will learn to set-up a development system, boot loaders, the kernel, drivers, device tree, and all the various software and decisions that need to be made when building a user space root filesystem, such as those in use in consumer electronics, military, medical, industrial, and auto industries. Hands-on labs with a RISC-V based emulated development target allow students to practice both coding and building the various parts of the system. Skill-based training modules include: How to Work in OSS Projects, Embedded and Real-Time Systems Concepts, Cross-Development Environments: Goals and Needs, Kbuild System, Cross-Development Toolchain, QEMU, Booting a Target Development Board from uSD over Ethernet, along with Boot loaders and U-Boot, Kernel Configuration, Compilation, Booting, Device Drivers, Device Trees, Filesystem Packaging, Build Target Root Filesystem, Root Filesystem Choices, Configuring uClibc, Build BusyBox Utility Suite, perform Kernel Monitoring and Debugging, manage Memory Technology Devices (Flash Memory Filesystems), work with Compressed File systems, perform System Upgrades and Real-Time Extensions and more.

Enroll today (individuals & teams welcome): https://tinyurl.com/vub7u8jv 

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An Introduction to Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Colleagues, this program rovides an essential primer to the OpenFlow version of Software Defined Networking (SDN) introduction to the OpenFlow-based version of SDN, providing the fundamental knowledge to effectively communicate with vendors who are selling products labeled as SDN. You will learn SDN architecture and standards, how an OpenFlow-based SDN works, criticisms of the existing SDN mechanisms, topologies, troubleshooting, and management of SDNs and suggestions on getting started with SDN. This program is ideal for Network architects, Network professionals and managers and Business leaders considering SDN.Training modules address: 1) What Is SDN?, 2) Defining SDN, 3) Highlighting SDN Benefits, 4) Comparing SDN with Other Forms of Virtualization, 5) Understanding an SDN Architecture, 6) Understanding How an OpenFlow-Based SDN Works, 7) Examining OpenFlow-Based SDN Standards, 8) Highlighting SDN Shortfalls, 9) Interfacing with the Rest of the Network, 10) Exploring SDN Topologies and Operations, and 10) Getting Started with SDN.

Enroll today (individuals & teams welcome): https://tinyurl.com/3kms7rh2 

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Certified Banking and Credit Analyst (CBCA)™ Certification - 10% Discount [Corporate Finance Institute

Financial colleagues, the Corporate Finance Institute’s Certified Banking and Credit Analyst (CBCA)™ Certification bundle provides a comprehensive program with real insights into tasks faced by credit analysts and those in commercial banking on a daily basis. This program never expires and gives you full access to 17 courses and certificates. Enroll today and start gaining a competitive edge in commercial banking with advanced knowledge, real-world analysis skills, and career confidence. Suggested prerequisites: Fundamentals of Credit, Accounting Fundamentals, and Forms of Business Structure. Learning modules include: 1) The 5 C's of Credit, 2) Reading Business Financial Information, 3) Evaluating a Business Plans, 4) Assessing Drivers of Business Growth, 5) Assessing Management, 6) Cash Flow Cycles and Analysis, 7) Financial Analysis Fundamentals, 8) Building a 3 Statement Financial Model, 9) Loan Security, 10) Loan Covenants, 11) Credit Administration and Documentation, 12) Account Monitoring and Warning Signs, 13) Business Writing Fundamentals, and 14) Completing a Credit Application.

Register today at: https://tinyurl.com/y3twodq9 (10% Coupon “CFIPartner10”)

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Financial Modeling and Valuation Analyst Certification (FMVA) - 10% Discount [Corporate Finance Institute]

FP&A colleagues, Financial Modeling and Valuation Analyst™ certified professionals earn an average of $121k USD per year. This all-inclusive training and FMVA™ certification program from the Corporate Finance Institute includes 24 courses, certificates, PitchBook Data access, one-on-one financial model feedback, extra case studies, and more. The most practical online qualification in corporate finance and CFI’s most comprehensive bundle to date. Developed for finance professionals looking to gain a competitive edge in the financial industry, the FMVA™ Full Immersion bundle provides a comprehensive program with real insights into tasks faced by financial analysts on a daily basis. Take your learning experience to the next level with your own user account for PitchBook Data and one-on-one feedback on your financial models. 

Enroll today at (10% Discount - Code “CFIPartner10”): https://tinyurl.com/yc96ayl5 

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VMware Certified Associate

Colleagues, according to Zip Recruiter a VMware Certified Professional earns an average of $141k per year. The “Associate” level certification is your entry point - earning over $81k per year. This program features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere® 6.5. It will give you a solid understanding of how to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. Learn faster and retain more so you are fully prepared to install and support VMware and become prepared to take the VMware Certified Associate - Digital Business Transformation (VCA-DBT) - 1V0-701 exam for the VMware Certified Associate (VCA) credential. Skill-based training modules will equip you in 1) ESXi Installation, 2) Virtual Machines, 3) Networking, 4) Storage, 5) Security, 6) Resource Allocation, 7) Host Profiles, 8) Monitoring and Performance, 9) Upgrade Process, 10) Troubleshooting, 11) Virtual VSAN, and 12) Redundancy and Data Protection.

Enroll today (individuals & teams welcome): https://tinyurl.com/h842shxd 

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Corporate Finance - Professional Certificate (ColumbiaX)

Finance colleagues, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, projects the demand for financial analysts to increase, at a 12% growth rate from 2014 to 2024. In this Columbia extension program you will learn how to value a firm over the course of this Corporate Finance professional certificate program, giving you the skills necessary to make sound financial and investment decisions. This program is for those looking to advance their career in a range of professions, including investment banking, private equity, consulting, general management, and CFO track jobs within a corporation. The three skill-based training modules include: 1) Introduction to Corporate Finance (The Time Value of Money & Present Value, Net Present Value, The Internal Rate of Return Rule, Capital Budgeting, and Valuation of Bonds and Stocks), 2) Free Cash Flow Analysis (Firm Valuation Framework, Calculation of Free Cash Flows, Financial Ratios and Projection of Free Cash Flows, Residual Value and Valuation Using Multiples, and Putting it All Together: Valuation Case Study), and 3) Risk & Return (Risk, return, and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) and the effect of capital structure on WACC). 

Enroll today (individuals & teams welcome): https://fxo.co/BWCA  

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Kubernetes for Developers (Linux Foundation - LFD259)

Dev colleagues, Kubernetes is a high-velocity open source orchestration tool to deploy, scale, and update containerized applications. The Kubernetes for Developers (LFD259) program will teach you how to containerize, host, deploy, and configure an application in a multi-node cluster. This course is ideal for developers who are looking to gain skills in Kubernetes application development. Students should be familiar with the Linux command line, programming languages like Python, Node.js or Go, and have a basic understanding of cloud native application concepts and architectures. This course will teach you how to containerize, host, deploy, and configure an application in a multi-node cluster. Starting with a simple Python script, you will define application resources and use core primitives to build, monitor and troubleshoot scalable applications in Kubernetes. The topics covered are directly aligned with the knowledge domains tested by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Program, and will substantially increase students’ ability to become certified. Skill-based training modules include: 1) Kubernetes Architecture, 2) Build, 3) Design, 4) Deployment , 5) Configuration, 6) Security, 7) Exposing Applications, and 8) Troubleshooting.

Enroll today (individuals & teams welcome): https://tinyurl.com/y9nffbyf  

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Big Data Architect Certification (Masters Program)

Colleagues, Zip Recruiter estimates salaries for Big Data Architects at over $132k. This Masters in Big data includes training on Hadoop and Spark stack, Cassandra, Talend and Apache Kafka messaging system. Skill-based training modules include: 1) Java Essentials, 2) Big Data Hadoop Certification Training, 3) Apache Spark and Scala Certification Training, 4) Apache Cassandra Certification Training,  5) Talend for Data Integration and Big Data, 6) Apache Kafka Certification Training: Learn the concepts about Kafka Architecture, Configuring Kafka Cluster, Kafka Producer, Kafka Consumer, Kafka Monitoring.Apache Kafka Certification Training is designed to provide insights into Integration of Kafka withHadoop, Storm and Spark, understand Kafka Stream APIs, implement Twitter Streaming with Kafka,Flume through real life cases studies, and 7) Big Data Master Program Capstone Project: Develop an analytics software to keep track of emerging products, sales forecasting, Optimizing offers, Upselling to customers and marketing strategies.

Enroll today (individuals & teams welcome): https://tinyurl.com/t9c7aa6a 

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Linux Performance Tuning - LFS426 (Linux Foundation)

OSS colleagues, the Linux Performance Tuning program (LFS462) is designed for IT professionals who are responsible for optimizing Linux performance. You will learn about industry configuration best practices, the best tried-and-true optimization performance tuning tools and techniques, how to manually optimize the kernel’s behavior, tracing, profiling and instrumentation techniques across a wide range of conditions. It prepares you to use all the tools and techniques you need to keep your Linux systems running at optimal levels. These techniques and tools have been developed and tested in the most demanding high-performance computing environments. Skill-based training modules include: 1) Performance Optimization Principles, 2) Benchmarking, 3) Tuning Interfaces, 4) Monitoring Interfaces, 5) Profiling Techniques and Tools, 6) Tracing Tools, 7) CPU Subsystem, 8) Power Management, 8) Process Scheduling, 9) Memory Subsystem, 10) NUMA Optimizations, 11) I/O Subsystem, 12) Local Filesystems, 13) Network Filesystems, 14) Storage and IO, 15) Analyzing the I/O Subsystem, 16) Network Subsystem Optimization, and  17) Virtualization.

Enroll today (individuals & teams welcome): https://tinyurl.com/tjbj92xu

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Using Machine Learning in Trading and Finance

Colleagues, the Using Machine Learning in Trading and Finance program provides the foundation for developing advanced trading strategies using machine learning techniques. You will review the key components that are common to every trading strategy, no matter how complex and be introduced to multiple trading strategies including quantitative trading, pairs trading, and momentum trading. By the end of the course, you will be able to design basic quantitative trading strategies, build machine learning models using Keras and TensorFlow, build a pair trading strategy prediction model and back test it, and build a momentum-based trading model and back test it. Develop high-demand skills in Algorithmic Trading, Python Programming and Machine Learning. You should have advanced competency in Python programming and familiarity with pertinent libraries for machine learning, such as Scikit-Learn, StatsModels, and Pandas. Experience with SQL is recommended. You should have a background in statistics (expected values and standard deviation, Gaussian distributions, higher moments, probability, linear regressions) and foundational knowledge of financial markets (equities, bonds, derivatives, market structure, hedging).

Enroll today (individuals & teams welcome): https://tinyurl.com/zmrhmbs 

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Robotics Process Automation Developer Advanced in UIPath (RPA Certification Program)

Developers,  this comprehensive training  program will equip you to achieve your UiPath' Robotics Program Automation Developer Advanced Certification Exam so that you can drive RPA initiatives in your organization. This RPA Certification course using UIPath helps you master the key concepts while designing an RPA solution, perform Image and Text automation. Learn about the evolution and future of Robotic Process Automation. You will also learn how Robotic Process Automation works and its components. Topics include: Emergence of Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Evolution of RPA, Future of RPA, Differentiating RPA from Automation, Defining Robotic Process Automation & its benefits, What RPA is Not, Types of Bots, Application areas of RPA, How Robotic Process Automation works and RPA development methodology and key considerations. Skill-based training modules address: 1) Overview of UiPath, 2) Process Components and Activities, 3) App Integration, Recording and Scraping, 4) Data Manipulation & PDF Automation, 5) Programming, Debugging and Logging, 6) Orchestrator Community Edition and Other RPA Tools, and 6) Implementing REFramework. 

Enroll today (individuals & teams welcome): https://fxo.co/AEaB

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Capital Markets and Securities Analyst - CMSA™ Certification Program - 10% Discount (Corporate Finance Institute)

Finance colleagues, the Capital Markets & Securities Analyst (CMSA)™ certification program from CFI will open up new career and income opportunities for you. Join professionals from J.P. Morgan, Deloitte, PWC, Amazon and Ferrari as you are equipped in asset classes, trading strategies and procedures used in capital markets (whether on the buy-side or sell-side). Core courses include: Financial Math for Capital Markets, Economics for Capital Markets, Bloomberg Essentials, courses include: Financial Math for Capital Markets. Intermediate courses address: Equity Markets, Fixed Income Fundamentals, Foreign Exchange, Commodities, Technical Analysis, Derivatives, Options, Swaps, Futures and Forwards. Electives cover: High Yield Bonds, Subordinated Debt, and Loans, Convertible Bonds, Short Duration Products, Hedge Fund Strategies and Behavioral Finance. This program is offered in both Full Immersion Instructor-Led and Self-Study formats.

Enroll today (10% discount - use code “CFIPartner10”): https://tinyurl.com/y5scrqvf    

Much career success, Lawrence E. Wilson - Online Learning Central

ITIL4 Foundations (Certification Training)

Colleagues, the ITIL Foundation certification training prepares you for the exam and opens up new career opportunities. Zip Recruiter estimates average salaries at over $88k USD. You will learn IT management in the modern service economy. The training focuses on project management approaches such as Lean, Agile and DevOps. You will earn 2 ITIL® Expert Credits and 18 PDU Credits.. Skill-based training modules include: 1)  Key Concepts of Service Management, 2) Key Concepts of Value Creation, 3) Key Concepts of Service Relationships, 4) Seven Guiding Principles, 5)  Four Dimensions of Service Management, 6) Components of the ITIL Service Value System,  ITIL Practices, and 8) How Key ITIL Practices Fit within the Service Value Chain.

Enroll today at (individual and business plans available): https://tinyurl.com/1mz4ugjy 

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Open Source Virtualization - Linux Foundation (LFS462)

OSS colleagues, this Open Source Virtualization from the Linux Foundation takes a deep dive into KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) and Xen, the most popular hypervisor virtualization technologies in the open source ecosystem, as well as the deployment and use of containers. This course provides KVM training from the ground up with a focus on QEMU and libvirt, as well as Xen. You will learn how these and other related open source components can be assembled to create a virtual IT infrastructure. There is a focus on practical deployment skills, securing the virtual infrastructure, and administering solutions, as well as detailed material about using containers. Lab exercises focus on virtual images and snapshots, deployment, VM creation and maintenance, integration with networking infrastructure, device pass-through and more. Skill-based training modules include: 1) Virtualization Overview, 2) KVM Quick-Start, 3) KVM Architecture and Relationship with Linux, 4) Running KVM Using QEMU, 5) libvirt, 6) Hardware Support, 7) Tuning for Performance, 8) KVM Security, 9) Xen Hypervisor Architecture, 10) Installing and Configuring Xen, 11) Administration of Xen domains, 12) Xen Performance and Tuning, 13) Xen Security, and 14) Working with Linux Containers.

Enroll today (individuals & teams welcome): https://tinyurl.com/4rwpf9dv 

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