The Certified Protection Professional Program
[ Source: Pearson Education ]
January 2008-
The CPP program is the brainchild of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS), an international organization for professionals responsible for security. This includes managers and directors of security departments or organizations, as well as full-time security practitioners. With more than 32,000 members worldwide, ASIS draws from corporate and organizational executive and management ranks, plus security consultants and architects, attorneys, and law enforcement professionals. In addition to the CPP certification program, ASIS offers the Professional ....
Now What? - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in IT Certification: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
[ Source: Pearson Education ]
January 2008-
Now what? That question has taken on particular relevance over the last year: 2002. Everyone in information technology that the author speaks with is asking ""Now what?"" The whole IT sector is experiencing a host of emotions as a result of a wide variety of economic and socio-political decisions. It seems that everyone in IT is confused. No one really knows what the direction of IT will be in the coming year.
MCAD/MCSD: Implementing Navigation for the User Interface
[ Source: Pearson Education ]
January 2008-
This paper published by Pearson Education discusses the development of Web applications which is a different game compared to developing Windows applications. One of the major challenges that a Web developer faces while developing a Web application is the disconnected nature of Web application. Traditionally, programmers had to write a lot of additional code to maintain state between page postback and navigation. ASP.NET provides a better model of programming by incorporating the tasks related to ....
MCAD Exam 70-316: Handling Visual C# .NET Exceptions
[ Source: Pearson Education ]
January 2008-
When an application encounters an unexpected situation such as a missing file or input parameter, or a logical error such as performing a division by zero, the application generates exceptions. By default, when an exception is generated, the application terminates and generates an error display. This paper discusses exceptions, which appear as an outcome of unexpected problems during the normal execution of a program.
MCSE Exam 70-294 Prep: Operations Masters and Global Catalog Servers
[ Source: Pearson Education ]
January 2008-
Although it’s true to say that all Domain Controllers (DCs) act as peers on a Windows Server 2003 network when Active Directory (AD) replication is used, at times the peer model does not achieve the desired result. Some functions on a network are best suited to being controlled by a single DC. This paper from Pearson Education, Exam Cram defines the operations masters and what they do. The paper also discusses what actions one should ....
MCSA/MCSE Exam 70-290 Training Guide: Managing Users, Computers, and Groups
[ Source: Pearson Education ]
January 2008-
This paper Pearson Education, Exam Cram covers the Microsoft-specified objectives for the ""Managing Users, Computers, and Groups"" section of the Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment exam. The paper discusses creating and managing user accounts, group accounts, and computer accounts, and setting up roaming profiles. Troubleshooting is a big part of the job, too. Troubleshooting entails helping users understand why they cannot connect to the network - whether it’s because of locked-out ....
CCNP CIT Exam 642-831: LAN Technologies
[ Source: Pearson Education ]
January 2008-
The focus of the paper ""CCNP CIT Exam Cram 2 (Exam Cram 642-831)"" published by Pearson Education, Exam Cram is to prepare for an exam that covers supporting and troubleshooting Cisco networks. In order to prepare for this exam, the reader needs to understand some of the principles and media types used in today’s networks in order to begin troubleshooting. The paper provides overview of the different LAN topologies and the IEEE LAN media standards ....
CNA Study Guide: Novell eDirectory
[ Source: Pearson Education ]
January 2008-
eDirectory is the world’s leading Directory service. It provides a unifying, cross-platform infrastructure for managing, securing, accessing, and developing all major components of the network. eDirectory scales to the largest network environments, including the Internet. Because it is based on the X.500 standard, eDirectory supports Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and the Java programming environment. This paper from Pearson Education, Exam Cram covers eDirectory testing objectives for Novell Course 3001: Foundations ....
Hardware and the OSI Model for the CCNA Exam
[ Source: Pearson Education ]
January 2008-
This paper from Pearson Education, Exam Cram will help to prepare for the CCNA exam by explaining networking hardware and techniques. The CCNA exam covers far more material than can be memorized. Many of the questions will require to determine the best answer based on the knowledge of how and why things work the way they do. The reason for this paper is that it provides a way to remember the low-level properties affecting the ....
Ten Techniques To Enhance Training
[ Source: BleedingEdge.net ]
January 2008-
The quality of a training session can frequently be greatly improved if the trainer makes use of a few simple techniques to enhance their presentation. This white paper from BleedingEdge.net explains ten techniques to help one turn next training session into a memorable learning experience for the trainees and one in which the transfer of information is two-way rather than one-way. These techniques can be used in combination or alone as required.