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Excel 2002 Advanced

Excel 2002: Advanced Microsoft
Lesson 1: Sorting & Filtering Data Introduction Lesson Objectives Opening Excel Importing Data From A Web Page The New Web Query Dialog Box Selecting A Table Navigating Pages Web Query Options Saving A Web Query Placing Data The External Data Toolbar Editing A Query Data Range Properties Refreshing Data Running A Saved Query Full Screen View
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Excel 2002 Advanced
Creating and Analyzing an Operating Budget

...Analyzing an Operating Budget
Working without a well thought-out operating budget can be compared to playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey. Although a company might know the direction in which it wants or needs to go, without a budget it must simply feel around in the dark and hope it comes close to its target. Unfortunately, if a business uses this approach, it will eventually fall victim
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Employment Relations HRCI PHR

Employment Relations (HRCI/PHR) HRCI Professional in Human Resources (PHR) Professional in Human Resources (PHR)
The Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI) certification examinations cover a broad range of workforce planning and employment issues, including those affecting employee and labor relations. The HRCI certification examinations are widely recognized as the industry
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Tests for Variances and Proportions

...s into the Analyze phase of a project, team members begin analyzing the information and data collected in the earlier phases. During the Analyze phase, Six Sigma teams identify possible sources of variation, underlying root causes, and areas for improvement. It is here where assumptions or hypotheses about a process, product, or service are made and validated using tests based on sample data.
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Using Voice of the Customer in Six Sigma

...C begins with defining Six Sigma goals for collecting and analyzing customer requirements. For this, the Six Sigma team must identify various customer segments especially the ones most concerned with the project. Then the team needs to identify and select the most effective methods for collecting customer feedback and requirements. From there, customer requirements are translated into
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Conducting Experiments and Analyzing Results in Six Sigma

...Analyzing Results in Six Sigma ASQ Six Sigma Black Belt (SSBB)
Six Sigma teams design and conduct experiments to investigate the relationships between input variables and response variables. By controlling and changing the input variables and observing the effects on the response variables, a Six Sigma team gains a deep understanding of these relationships. After determining what and how
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Nonstatistical Analysis Methods in Six Sigma

...y of statistical and nonstatistical tools and methods for analyzing systems and processes to identify variation and defects, reduce costs, eliminate waste, and reduce cycle time. While many of the tools used in the Analyze phase are statistical and quantitative in nature, there are many useful nonstatistical methods. Nonstatistical methods help in the analysis by including qualitative
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Process Characteristics for Six Sigma

...prove the current state of an organization's processes by analyzing the variables of its processes, using metrics to calculate process flow performance, and employing tools to analyze processes. It connects these tools to the overarching goals of eliminating wasted time, highlighting free time, and increasing the proportion of value-added time. This course is aligned with the ASQ Certified Six
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Basic Statistics and Graphical Methods for Six Sigma

...h basic statistical tools for describing, presenting, and analyzing sample and population data. It explores the process of preparing and presenting sample data using graphical methods and then making valid inferences about the population represented by the sample. This course is aligned with the ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt certification exam and is designed to assist learners as part of
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Process Capability for Six Sigma

...manded by the business, or by the customer. Measuring and analyzing the capability and performance of a process under review enables organizations to numerically represent and interpret its current state, and to report its sigma level. When done correctly, process capability analyses enable Black Belts to precisely assess current performance in light of future goals, and ultimately, to
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Nonparametric Tests in Six Sigma Analysis

...e course aims to familiarize learners with approaches for analyzing nonparametric data, particularly the use of four nonparametric tests for validating hypotheses: Mood's Median tests, Levene's tests, Kruskal-Wallis tests, and Mann-Whitney tests. This course is aligned with the ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt certification exam and is designed to assist learners as part of their exam
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Processes and Customer Analysis in Six Sigma Projects

Processes and Customer Analysis in Six Sigma Projects ASQ Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB)
A process is a means of creating and delivering products and services needed by customers. According to Takashi Osada, Japanese author and quality pioneer, "if the process is right, the results will take care of themselves." By Six Sigma standards, a "right process" is one that creates and delivers
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Modeling and Analyzing Processes in Six Sigma

...Analyzing Processes in Six Sigma ASQ Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB)
"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you are doing," says W. Edwards Deming, a well-known American quality advocate, statistician, and educator. During the Measure stage of the Six Sigma methodology, you need to identify and map processes and procedures for problem areas identified
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Discover Excel 2007 Level 3

...te A Chart
Modify A Chart
Chart Templates
Analyzing Chart Data
Work With Graphics
Graphics In Excel 2007
Inserting Pictures
Insert Clip Art
Adding Shapes & Text Effects
Insert SmartArt
QUIZ
2. COLLABORATE WITH OTHERS
Share Excel Data
Overview
Distribute Workbooks
Proofing Your
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Using Basic Control Charts in Six Sigma

Using Basic Control Charts in Six Sigma ASQ Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB)
In a Six Sigma DMAIC project, once you've measured your current processes, analyzed the gaps and causes of problems, and improved processes to the desired level, you need to monitor and control them over an extended period of time. The process may show variation, and control charts are used to determine if the variation
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Problem Solving Digging Deeper

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Norman Vincent Peale, who stressed the need for analyzing a problem at a granular level, once said, 'When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.' A fact-based, honest analysis happens at two key steps in the problem-solving process: first when you analyze problems to identify
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Interpersonal Communication Targeting Your Message

Interpersonal Communication: Targeting Your Message
Author and communication expert Anthony Robbins once said, 'To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.' In other words, understanding who you're talking to is as important as understanding what you're trying to
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Conflict of Interest Simulation

Conflict of Interest Simulation
In this simulation experience, you will assume the role of an HR generalist assigned to a branch sales office for KTW Home Supplies, a major manufacturer of consumer home goods. As the simulation opens, you will be approached by a salesperson who wishes to speak to you confidentially regarding a possible conflict of interest that she has witnessed. The
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Using Surveys to Measure Customer Satisfaction

Using Surveys to Measure Customer Satisfaction
If you're lucky, your customers will complain when they are dissatisfied with your company's service. If you're not so lucky, they'll say nothing and just take their business elsewhere.It's essential that you keep your fingers on the pulse of customer opinion if you are to prevent them defecting to the competition. You need to measure customer
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Analyzing Your Life Balance

...Analyzing Your Life Balance
Do you fill your life with many activities and then find it's tricky getting a good balance between them? Getting the balance right can provide you with tremendous payback, but where does this balance lie? You want to feel fulfilled and in harmony with yourself and your world. You know finding a balance is good for you, and also impacts positively on your
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Analyzing Your Use of Time

...Analyzing Your Use of Time
Do you have too much time on your hands? With all of the pressures of modern life, so few people today do. In order to preserve your time, you have to know how to manage it. And the first step in learning how to manage time well is to understand how you make use of it now. This will help you determine where can you be more efficient. This course focuses on ways
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Planning and Prioritizing Your Time

...itizing Your Time
Managing time effectively entails analyzing your goals, breaking those goals into tasks, and then prioritizing those tasks. This isn't always easy or clear cut, given the number of tasks you may need to complete. But if you set clear and measurable goals and then develop an effective to-do list, you'll find prioritizing your many tasks is easier. And, in the end, you'll
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Problem-Solving and Process Management Tools

Problem-Solving and Process Management Tools ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence Manager of Quality / Organizational Excellence
Albert Einstein is reputed to have said, "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." To solve quality and process-related problems, managers should continuously enhance
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Measurement Assessment and Metrics

...ective manager is continuously gathering, monitoring, and analyzing information as it relates to organizational performance.
This course explores data analysis techniques used to detect trends of projects and processes. It describes key concepts in statistical analysis and explains how data-gathering affects the people in an organization and vice versa. It is aligned with the Quality
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Multivariate Analysis and Attribute Data Analysis in Six Sigma

...igma teams use a different set of data analysis tools for analyzing and interpreting this type of data. This course deals with the tools used in Six Sigma for multivariate analysis and attribute data analysis. It discusses multivariate tools such as principal components, factor analysis, discriminant analysis, and multiple analysis of variance (MANOVA). It also deals with attribute data
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Sharepoint 2010 Operational Health

Sharepoint 2010 Operational Health Microsoft Microsoft Certified IT Professional SharePoint Administrator 2010
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is a business collaboration platform where people can collaborate, set up web sites, manage documents, and provide intelligence to make key business decisions. This course covers managing SharePoint server's operational health, including backup and restore
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Cash Flow Mgmt Essentials for Non-financial Professionals

...essionals
Cash flow management involves monitoring, analyzing, and adjusting your business's cash flows to maintain a steady flow of cash available for your activities when needed. Sustaining working capital while managing the flow of cash is often a challenge with many businesses. Sale of goods and services results in cash coming in, while paying bills, taxes, dividends, and the
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Analyzing Financial Statements for Non-financial Professionals

...Analyzing Financial Statements for Non-financial Professionals
Financial statements of an organization often conceal more than they reveal. Being able to analyze them and extract meaningful information is an essential skill that financial as well as non-financial professionals should have. Ratio analysis can be used to determine relationships between two elements of the same financial
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Principles of Acct Finance for Non-financial Professionals

...ss. These functions deal with recording, summarizing, and analyzing financial information across all departments for decision making, directing, and controlling their resources and activities. Every activity or non-activity in an organization has financial implications and financial acumen is expected at every organizational level. Professionals and functional managers in every department and
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Cisco Switch 1 0 Analyzing Campus Network Designs

...Analyzing Campus Network Designs Cisco Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP ) 642-813 Implementing Cisco IP Switched Networks (SWITCH) v1.0
Over the last 50 years, businesses have achieved improving levels of productivity and competitive advantages through the use of communication and computing technology. Over the past 20 years the enterprise campus network has evolved, becoming a
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Competitive Marketing Strategies Analyzing Competitors

...Analyzing Competitors
To formulate successful competitive marketing strategies for your organization, you need to understand your competitors. Who are your key rivals and what drives their marketing decisions? What do they do well and where do they miss the mark? Gathering and analyzing this kind of information is the starting point for developing effective strategies that can increase
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Customer Driven Process Improvement From Customer Needs to Process Requirements

...vement: From Customer Needs to Process Requirements
Analyzing and understanding voice of the customer data is an important first step in managing customer-driven process improvement. This data reveals important information about customers' needs, perceptions, and attitudes. But what do you do with the insights you gain from it? Translating the voice of the customer into measurable process
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Customer Driven Process Improvement Analyzing Process Problems

...Analyzing Process Problems
One of the stages in customer-driven process improvement is identifying problem areas in current processes. It's vital to find out why something has gone wrong in a process, especially if it affects the organization's ability to meet customers' requirements. By identifying problems and unearthing their causes, you can pinpoint the changes necessary for resolving
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Customer Driven Process Improvement Implementing Maintaining Improvements

...d. After determining customer requirements, measuring and analyzing current processes, and determining process problems and potential solutions, it's now time to take action. The energy that often accompanies this stage can make the planning, piloting, and troubleshooting of the implementation easier. This course describes how to channel that energy to create a well-thought-out implementation
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The Fundamentals of Globalization Analyzing the Global Environment

...Analyzing the Global Environment
A global organization needs to be sensitive to the environmental factors that shape national and global markets. Awareness of conditions at national and global levels enables managers to respond appropriately to the constantly changing social, political, economic, and technological forces they will have to navigate. Similarly, an accurate understanding of
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Analyzing Data in Excel 2007

...Analyzing Data in Excel 2007 Microsoft
Excel 2007 provides powerful data analysis tools that enable you to explore large amounts of data and to make educated business decisions based on that data. With PivotTable reports you can interactively summarize data, making it easier to analyze and present the results. PivotChart reports provide a graphical view of PivotTable report data. Using
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Managing SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Solutions

...r 2008 Analysis Services provides a powerful solution for analyzing extremely large amounts of data in a relational database. This course looks at Analysis Services from a management perspective. It outlines the considerations involved with deploying SSAS projects. This includes project deployments using various methods and synchronization. The course also covers analysis services security
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IT Project Management Essentials Managing Risks in an IT Project

IT Project Management Essentials: Managing Risks in an IT Project
IT project managers deal with risks every day, including potential cost overruns, schedule delays, design constraints, hardware defects, and software bugs. Without a plan or process in place to address the possibility of unpredictable and unwanted loss during a project, managers may be dealing with risks reactively, rather
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Basic Presentation Skills Planning a Presentation

Basic Presentation Skills: Planning a Presentation
Even the most seasoned public speakers can experience nerves before a major presentation. The successful ones, however, have learned how to make those nerves work for them. Positive concern about the impact of a presentation can spur presenters to raise their game, enabling them to get the desired results. For example, a presentation can be
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HR as Business Partner Managing Talent for Organizational Success

HR as Business Partner: Managing Talent for Organizational Success
An organization's talent is the key to its success, and HR is perfectly positioned to contribute to that success by optimizing the workforce and engaging employees to use their knowledge, skills, and abilities to support the organization's goals and objectives. This course covers ways in which transformational HR can direct
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Migrating Infrastructure to the Cloud

...e cloud. The course also explores the recommended step of analyzing your current infrastructure to inventory data, services, and processes used, as well as identify problem areas that may be addressed through a cloud solution. Upon completion of your analysis, it is time to determine cloud service candidates and match cloud services, as well as look at examples of how to leverage different
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Hazard Communication (HazCom)



To protect those workers exposed to hazardous chemicals in all industrial sectors, the Federal Government established the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (HCS), also known as the right to know law. This standard is based on a simple concept: that employees have both a need and a right to know the hazards and the identities of the chemicals they are exposed to when working. This course is
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Hazard Communication (HazCom)
Self directed tutorial-Teach Yourself Search Engine Training Strategies in 7 Days


...trategies to improve search engine positioning process by analyzing your site and creating supplemental pages. Search Engine Commando will provide you with valuable information about your rankings in the search engines and will inform you when those rankings change. However, before Search Engine Commando can ?do its stuff? and for the program to be of maximum benefit, you must ?tweak? your
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Search Engine Marketing Strategies for Small Business Operations - Instructor Led


...tep-by-step techniques on how to ?tweak? your web site by analyzing it and making the necessary changes in order to ensure your success and turning your business into a "selling machine." By completing each lesson, you will look at all the strategies in the search positioning process through analyzing their site, handling of keywords, basic HTML coding, making rich content pages, and more. Each
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Manufacturing Statistics Personal Training Library
...or use. Measurement System Analysis covers techniques for analyzing the variation within a measurement system, determining its suitability for use, and ways to improve measurement systems. The GR&R analysis techniques used in MSA are in compliance with QS-9000/AIAG methods. Once a measurement system is found to be acceptable, it is equally important to institute a formal system to manage the
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Six Sigma Black Belt Personal Training Library
...or use. Measurement System Analysis covers techniques for analyzing the variation within a measurement system, determining its suitability for use, and ways to improve measurement systems. The GR&R analysis techniques used in MSA are in compliance with QS-9000/AIAG methods. Once a measurement system is found to be acceptable, it is equally important to institute a formal system to manage the
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Professional Writing Skills at a Glance
... your minuses. A unique activity of this program includes analyzing types of writing for various readers according to their personality types: boxes, triangles, circles, and squiggles. You?ll also learn the two keys successful writers use to unlock the power within every successful document.Superior Style: The three components of style include paragraphs, sentences, and words.
You will learn
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Compensation Training & Certification Program
Learn the basics of Compensation and earn a "Fundmentals of Compensation" certificate. This self-paced course qualifies for 4 hours of PHR/SPHR re-certification credits and can be completed either at one time or over several sessions.
Our "Compensation Training & Certification Program" course provides the details for establishing, maintaining, and evaluating an effective Compensation Program.
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Savings Strategy Development
...Your plan will be comprehensive, covering everything from analyzing your spend to strategic sourcing to continually improving cost savings processes. You'll also understand many nuances of how to write an RFP within the context of a step-by-step RFP process. Frequently Asked Questions How long will it take me to complete the course? The amount of time it takes to complete the course is
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Build Your Own BIZ - How to Hire
This course will help you make sound hiring decisions that help you maximize employee retention and return on investment. You will receive as a bonus 1 year unlimited access to this course from the day of enrollment. If attempting to accelerate your learning (1-2 weeks or less), please pay special attention to key points so you may successfully apply the information gained from this course to your
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From 123-CBT Computer Based Training
Microsoft Office 2000 - Excel for Power Users
To bring proficient users of Excel 2000 to an advanced level of competence in using macros and sharing, displaying, formatting, and analyzing data
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Microsoft Office 2000 - Excel for Power Users
Analyzing Cash Flow Statements
... to make a more informed and better business decision; by analyzing your company's financial statements. They contain information that can help you improve your company's efficiency and overall effectiveness. Cash flow statement analysis focuses on determining your company's ability in the following four areas: (1) ability to meet short-term obligations and to efficiently generate revenue, (2)
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Analyzing the Income Statement and Balance Sheet
This course examines the Income Statement and the Balance Sheet, their respective structures and relationships as they correlate to business activities, and introduces common methods of analysis when using these financial statements to measure a business's financial performance.
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Analyzing Cash Flow
Would a family survive if it didn't know where its available cash was coming from, how much cash it had to spend, or how to get more cash for its needs? If you answered no, you are right. Just like a family that has to understand cash issues for survival, a business also has to understand information about its usable cash in order to sustain its life. This course will teach you how to read, and
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Ratio Analysis for Financial Statements
This course introduces the learner to ratio analysis and how ratios are used in analyzing financial statements. Ratio analysis is used by businesses, investors, creditors, and stockholders in decision-making. Up-to-date audited reports from past and current financial statements are used to secure the most accurate ratio analysis results.
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Analyzing an Annual Report
This course will familiarize business managers, financial professionals, and other business professionals with methods to extend their analysis of financial statements beyond the three basic reports: the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow Statement. The course begins by analyzing two accounting features often identified in the notes to the financial statements: the cost of goods sold
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Analyzing Requirements and Resources for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server
To identify what company requirements and resources need to be analyzed before a messaging solution can be designed
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Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with UML Analyzing the System
To show how to specify object interaction in the UML and to identify associations and inheritance between classes
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Analyzing Workplace War Zones
A team would be worthless if everyone agreed on every issue. The purpose of teams is to facilitate discussions and foster creativity. Sometimes the same discussions and creative thoughts that help the team can also bring about conflict. Nobody is perfect and not everyone is going to get along. It's important that teams identify and target any problems before they escalate. At the end of this
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Analyzing the Market
...his course will walk you through four crucial elements of analyzing your market. First, you'll learn to scan your environment, considering the economical, technological, social, and political impacts on your organization. Then you'll learn how market segmentation can assist you in developing products and marketing strategies. You'll be given a set of tools that can be utilized for developing
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Analyzing and Optimizing SQL Server 2000 Queries
To show how to analyze and optimize queries
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Using Data as a Technical Professional Consultant
As a technical professional, you may have relied on reports from subordinates or your own observations and research for information. While the information garnered in these ways is still useful, in your role as an internal consultant, you may have to develop surveys or conduct interviews with individuals or groups in order to quickly collect the data pertinent to your current project. In addition,
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Strategic Management Analyzing Strategic Options

...Analyzing Strategic Options offers the student an overview of the information required to develop an effective strategic option, consider appropriate issues when performing a strategic audit, and use the SWOT review to analyze a company's situation. The program describes how to evaluate internal resources, capabilities, and core competencies, and analyze external factors, such as industry
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Competitive Intelligence Analysis Dissemination

...ing accurate information and the available techniques for analyzing industry, market, and company information. It also covers the steps for distributing CI results, various methods of counterintelligence to protect an organization's information, and the steps for protecting an organization's information from its competitors. Learn To Use the guidelines for
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Visual InterDev 6 0 Planning a Web Application

... in a given situation.
Identify the guidelines used for analyzing the support required to meet the business requirements of a Web application.
Identify the guidelines to meet the security requirements of a Web application.
Identify the guidelines to determine the requirements related to human factors.
Identify the guidelines to test the feasibility of a technical architecture.
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Advanced Six Sigma The Measure Analysis Phases of DMAIC

The Measure and Analysis phase in the DMAIC model of Six Sigma implementation helps practitioners set standards for performance and quality. Subsequently, these metrics are studied to understand the issues and the causes that deter conformity to the specified standard. This in turn facilitates both preventive and corrective action.
Learn To:
Understand the role of data in the
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SAP R 3 v4 x SD Order Processing

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Pricing Elements.
Increasing the Customer Discount.
Analyzing the Origin of a Condition.
Maintaining Prices Manually.
Viewing Pricing Details.
Credit Limit Check.
Credit Control Area.
System Responses.
Credit Management.
Unit 3: Tools
Duration: 1 - 2 Hour(s)
Entry Aids.
Tools.
Displaying Assortments.
Copying Assortments.
Making Changes Quickly.
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SAP R 3 CO Activity Based Costing

Course Overview
The course SAP R/3 Activity Based Costing is designed to provide all employees of a company involved in Cost Accounting an overview of the possibilities supported by activity-based costing and to explain how the available functions can be used. The user will also be given the basic information required to carry out day-to-day chores within the SAP R/3 System.
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C Foundation for Non-C Programmers - Part 1

...e a required output. Identify the result of a program by analyzing the scope of a variable within a program. Match the storage class specifiers with their functions. Identify the function call that completes a program to the desired output. Select the valid overloaded functions from a specified list. Calculate the result of a program that uses function pointers. Identify the advantages of
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Introduction to Data Warehousing

...e architecture of data warehousing. The tools involved in analyzing the warehouse data will also be covered. Finally, you'll learn about the Oracle data warehouse.
L earn To:
Identify the basic concepts and terminology of data warehousing.
Identify the different processes and tasks involved in an integrated warehouse environment.
Identify the different data warehouse
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Oracle SQL Tuning Diagnostics and Tuning Schema

...lowed when applying the tuning methodology.
Unit 2: Analyzing SQL Performance
Duration: 2 - 3 Hour(s)
Match the identifiers in the EXPLAIN PLAN command with their descriptions.
Match the columns in the EXPLAIN PLAN output table with their descriptions.
Identify the combination of operation and option used, given the interpretation of the EXPLAIN PLAN output.
Display the
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Oracle8 Performance Tuning Optimizing Sorts and Minimizing Contention

...imum number of blocks used by an individual sort.
After analyzing temporary tablespace, determine if a second tablespace for temporary sorts is needed.
Unit 3: Tuning Rollback Segments
Duration: 1 Hour(s)
Match uses of rollback segments with their definitions.
Identify where a new transaction will start placing its rollback entries given a graphic representation of rollback
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Site Server 3 0 Implementation - Part 3

...wledge Manager; and identify the tools and procedures for analyzing Web site usage and content. L earn To: Identify the tasks and procedures associated with the Knowledge Manager. Identify the tools and procedures for analyzing Web site usage and content. C ontent Emphasis Skills-Based A udience This course series is designed for system administrators and other
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Visual InterDev 6 0 Planning a Web Application

... in a given situation.
Identify the guidelines used for analyzing the support required to meet the business requirements of a Web application.
Identify the guidelines to meet the security requirements of a Web application.
Identify the guidelines to determine the requirements related to human factors.
Identify the guidelines to test the feasibility of a technical architecture.
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SQL Server 7 0 Designing Implementing Data Warehouses - Part 1

Course Overview This is the first course in a five part series that will help students prepare for the Microsoft Certified Professional exam 70-019, Designing and Implementing Data Warehouses with Microsoft SQL Server 7.0. At the completion of this course, students will learn to identify the characteristics of different decision support systems and components and tools used in data warehousing;
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IIS 4 0 Creating Configuring a Web Server - Part 3

...e text-only browsers by using Quick Search.
Unit 2: Analyzing Web Site Usage
Duration: 1 - 2 Hour(s)
Match the usage components with the type of data they provide.
Match the log file formats with their explanations.
Configure the log settings for the Web site by using the Default Properties.
Import a log file to a database by using Usage Import.
Match the types of Detail
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NetWare Service and Support Upgrade - Part 5

...ANalyzer alarms.
Sequence the steps to be performed for analyzing an excessive network utilization.
Sequence the steps that are involved in analyzing excessive broadcast on a network.
Sequence the steps that are involved in analyzing excessive packets per second.
Trace the CRC errors by using LANalyzer for Windows.
Trace the cabling system problems by using LANalyzer for Windows.
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Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions Part 1

This is the first of five courses in the Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions curriculum, which is designed to prepare learners for the CCDA DESGN exam 640-861. It covers organizational network policies and procedures, network design methodology, assessing project scope and requirements, and examining existing networks. It will also cover design implementation, modularizing networks, and
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Windows 2000 Network--Designing Security Part 1 Sec Planning

...ies to plan for a secure enterprise network, creating and analyzing a network security plan, planning secure and effective strategies for creating security groups, delegating administration and placing and inheriting security policies. L earn To: Identify the risks and threats against which security should be provided. Identify the windows 2000 security model and technologies
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Windows 2000 Network--Designing Security Part 1 Sec Planning

...ies to plan for a secure enterprise network, creating and analyzing a network security plan, planning secure and effective strategies for creating security groups, delegating administration and placing and inheriting security policies. L earn To: Identify the risks and threats against which security should be provided. Identify the windows 2000 security model and technologies
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Windows 2000 Administration--Part 3 Computer Mgmt

...diting object access events. Identify the guidelines for analyzing security logs. Identify the events that may indicate breaches in security. Identify the features and functions of system and application logs. Identify the various types of system and application events. Identify the features and functions of Event Viewer. Use Event Viewer to search for specific events. Identify options
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Windows 2000 Administration--Part 3 Computer Mgmt

...diting object access events. Identify the guidelines for analyzing security logs. Identify the events that may indicate breaches in security. Identify the features and functions of system and application logs. Identify the various types of system and application events. Identify the features and functions of Event Viewer. Use Event Viewer to search for specific events. Identify options
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Oracle Database 10g New Features for Administrators Part 2

...tabase Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM).
Identify options for analyzing Automatic Database Diagnostics Monitor (ADDM) results.
Identify features of Automatic Shared Memory Management (ASMM).
Identify features of Automatic Workload Repository (AWR).
Identify features of Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) snapshots.
Identify options for configuring Automatic Workload Repository (AWR).
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Budgeting Series

The Budgeting Series includes the following courses: Budgeting: Creating and Analyzing a Budget Budgeting: Operating and Manufacturing Budgets Budgeting: Capital Budgeting To review individual course descriptions, please return to the previous page and select the desired title(s).
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Advanced Project Leadership Organization Strategy Business Needs

...ng a strategic Project Charter. Identify the method for analyzing and matching business needs to strategy. Identify the process for linking high level deliverables to strategy. Identify how the type of organization could cause risk. Audience: Project managers who are responsible for managing all aspects of a project from start to finish, for managing multiple projects, and for
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Moving from Technical Professional to Mgr Series Getting Started

...r conducting a feasibility study. Identify reasons for analyzing customer requirements. Simulation Overview: You are a project manager with Icon International. You've been appointed by Katherine Cavanaugh, Senior IT Manager, to manage the Reservation project. The project involves adding more features to the popular Reservation database. This project is in response to requests from some of
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SAP R 3 PP Program Planning MP MRP

The Computer Based Training (CBT) SAP R/3 PP: Production Planning MP and MRP describes the production planning process and explains how it works. Upon completing this course, the trainee will be able to describe the various planning strategies and their applicability in different types of industries and identify the integration points with Materials Management, Sales & Distribution, Financial
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Defining Microsoft NET Solution Architectures Part 1

... To identify considerations for analyzing industry positions, personnel, and regulations. To identify features of use cases. To identify guidelines for creating usage scenarios. To identify considerations for application globalization and localization. To
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i-Net Part 2 Servers Clients Performance

...nds with their functions. o Identify considerations for analyzing server performance. o Identify considerations for checking log files. o Configure a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) log file in Internet Information Server (IIS). Audience The intended audience for this course includes people working in entry-level Internet and e-commerce careers, such as maintenance of Internet, intranet,
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Defining Microsoft NET Solution Architectures Part 2

...e MCSD for .NET certification, and/or taking Exam 70-300, Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft.NET Solution Architectures. The audience will also include a wide range of IT professionals, including system architects, systems analysts, developers, consultants, and those wishing to learn more about designing solutions. Course Prerequisites: Experience of designing, developing,
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Creativity Innovation Thinking Creatively

...ed, you control the outcome of each simulation. Unit 2: Analyzing Your Creativity (0.5 - 1 hour) Recognize the personal characteristics that promote and inhibit creativity. Identify which personal experiences enhance creativity. Incorporate organizational factors that enhance creativity. Avoid job
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Defining Microsoft NET Solution Architectures Part 2

...e MCSD for .NET certification, and/or taking Exam 70-300, Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft.NET Solution Architectures. The audience will also include a wide range of IT professionals, including system architects, systems analysts, developers, consultants, and those wishing to learn more about designing solutions. Course Prerequisites: Experience of designing, developing,
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Defining Microsoft NET Solution Architectures Part 3

...e MCSD for .NET certification, and/or taking Exam 70-300, Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft.NET Solution Architectures. The audience will also include a wide range of IT professionals, including system architects, systems analysts, developers, consultants, and those wishing to learn more about designing solutions. Experience of designing, developing, and implementing
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Defining Microsoft NET Solution Architectures Part 4

...e MCSD for .NET certification, and/or taking Exam 70-300, Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft.NET Solution Architectures. The audience will also include a wide range of IT professionals, including system architects, systems analysts, developers, consultants, and those wishing to learn more about designing solutions. Experience of designing, developing, and implementing
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Defining Microsoft NET Solution Architectures Part 3

...e MCSD for .NET certification, and/or taking Exam 70-300, Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft.NET Solution Architectures. The audience will also include a wide range of IT professionals, including system architects, systems analysts, developers, consultants, and those wishing to learn more about designing solutions. Experience of designing, developing, and implementing
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Financial Management Understanding Financial Statement

...preparing a balance sheet.
Identify the key ratios for analyzing the balance sheet.
Identify key information derived from a cash flow statement.
Audience:
Non-financial professionals including managers, department heads, and others in the firm who wish to develop a better understanding of financial and accounting concepts and terminology.
Deployment:
Self-Study
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Financial Management Analyzing Financial Statements

This course will focus on how financial statements are used by management to improve the organization's performance, and by investors when they set values on an organization's stocks and bonds. You will learn about ratio analysis, the tools used to analyze financial statements.
Learn To:
Identify the importance of financial analysis.
Identify types of financial analysis tools.
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Financial Management Inventory Costing Depreciation

... sheets for different user types.
Identify benefits of analyzing income statements.
Identify key aspects governing the presentation of assets on a balance sheet.
Identify elements of an income statement.
Unit 2: Inventory Costing and Valuation (1 hour)
Identify the need to value inventory.
Match inventory costing methods with their key aspects.
Match inventory costing
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Financial Statements Financial Statements Analysis

... combat budgeting variances, and the different methods of analyzing financial statements. Learn To Prepare a balance sheet. Prepare an income statement. Identify reasons budgets should be used. Identify steps to correcting variances.
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Financial Statements Reading Analyzing an Annual Report

...Analyzing an Annual Report teaches the student how to read and analyze an annual report and its notes of disclosure. The program details the characteristics, users, and components of annual reports and notes of disclosure that will help the student understand why it is important to create, analyze, and comprehend annual reports. Learn To Select the purpose
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Financial Statements Analyzing Cash Flows

...Analyzing Cash Flows offers the student an overview of accounting methods, the statement of cash flows, stock, and financial ratios. The program details how accounting methods affect financial statements, who looks at your financial statements and for what reasons, and how financing instruments affect financial statements. It also covers the methods used for and activities reported in the
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Budgeting Creating Analyzing a Budget

...Analyzing a Budget gives the student an overview of the purpose of budgeting, the types of budgets, and the elements of a successful budget. The program includes a process for creating a budget, ways to analyze and compare budgets, and important guidelines to apply during the budgeting process. Learn To List the five purposes of budgeting. List the various types of budget. List
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Interpersonal Communication Listening Skills

...ed, you control the outcome of each simulation. Unit 2: Analyzing Your Listening Skills (0.5 - 1 hour) Understand the need for the listening process. Identify the different types of listening. Use critical listening skills. Eliminate personal filters when listening. Take
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Defining Microsoft NET Solution Architectures parat 4

...e MCSD for .NET certification, and/or taking Exam 70-300, Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft.NET Solution Architectures. The audience will also include a wide range of IT professionals, including system architects, systems analysts, developers, consultants, and those wishing to learn more about designing solutions. Experience of designing, developing, and implementing
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Organizational Communication Communicating in the Workplace

... role that is being fulfilled. Follow the process for analyzing change. Assist employees through a change. Apply the process for developing an individual-organizational relationship. Apply technology guidelines to an organization. Identify guidelines for communicating electronically. Audience Managers, employees, team leaders, or team members who need to learn how to
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Interviewing Skills Preparing for an Interview

...pre-employment tests to their descriptions.
Unit 2: Analyzing Your Organization
Identify the aspects you should consider when defining a job.
Identify characteristics that help define an organization's culture.
Unit 3: Creating Success Factors
Identify the characteristics of success factors.
Sequence the steps for writing success factors.
Sequence the steps for
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Recruiting Retention Staffing Your Organization

...n. Avoid common mistakes when analyzing a job and creating a description. Identify the three steps of the recruiting process. Identify the five functions of effective recruitment advertising. Identify common recruiting mistakes. Identify ways employment
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Recruiting Retention Keeping Your Good Employees

... Identify aspects to consider when analyzing job structure. Sequence the steps for the coaching process. Audience Managers, supervisors, and team leaders who are involved in the recruiting process or in the process of making sure employees remain satisfied in their positions. Deployment Options e-Learning Accreditation NASBA
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Exit Interviewing Skills Conducting an Exit Interview

...rector of Human Resources, to discuss effective tools for analyzing the results of exit interviews. James will ask you a series of questions designed to test your knowledge of the various uses of descriptive statistics, as well as how they can effectively be used to benefit the company. Unit 3: Reporting Exit Interview Results (1 - 2 hours) Identify the steps for
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Decision Making Problem Solving Problem Solving Fundamentals

...ed, you control the outcome of each simulation. Unit 2: Analyzing a Problem (0.5 - 1 hour) Determine the nature of the problem. Generate problem solving options. Evaluate the problem solving options. Select the best option. Prepare for implementation of the option.
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Six Sigma Deploying Six Sigma

In Deploying Six Sigma you will learn the fundamentals of beginning a Six Sigma project. It begins by giving assistance in prioritizing projects and selecting key people before then helping the learner to define, measure, analyze, improve and control the selected process. It also looks at process capability studies and how they should be directed. Learn To
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Business Problem Solving Critical Thinking Info Analysis

... Identify the process for logically analyzing a problem. Identify two common reasoning errors. Identify guidelines for preventing reasoning errors. Avoid errors in reasoning. Simulation Overview: In the simulation at the end of this unit, you are a candidate
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Delegation The Delegation Process

...al Learning Time 2 to 4 hours Objectives Unit 1:Analyzing and Appointing (0.5 - 1 hour) Identify how you should use a task log. Identify the categories that you can divide tasks into. Identify guidelines for prioritizing and grouping tasks. Identify key issues to consider when appointing a
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Value Chain Management Managing a Value Chain

... costs. Identify steps involved in analyzing competitors. Apply ways to gain cost advantage. Identify ways of creating buyer value. Identify steps to develop a value proposition strategy. Identify ways to use the Web to create value. Simulation Overview:
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Coaching Communicating with Employees

... Interpret nonverbal communication by analyzing body language. Use the four types of questions effectively while coaching. Follow the steps for conducting face-to-face meetings with problem employees. Use the appropriate approach when confronting your employee. Audience Managers and
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Managing Change Implementing the Change Process

...entify aspects of a change that should be considered when analyzing a situation. Analyze a change situation. Prepare a plan for change. Identify two ways to motivate employees to accept change. Simulation Overview: You a a ll meet with the Vice President of Marketing at Icon International. She
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Project Management Essentials Planning a Project

...propriate decisions when planning your project. Unit 3: Analyzing the Project a a s Activities (1 hour) Identify factors that indicate a need for a high level of detail in activity analysis. Identify items that must be included on an activity analysis form. Identify the items that can be included on an activity analysis
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Project Management Project Risk Management

...ly occur in projects. You will also learn two methods for analyzing project risk, qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis. Finally, you will learn constructive ways to respond to, monitor, and control risks to effectively manage the threats and opportunities that affect projects.
Learn To:
Understand the fundamentals of Risk Management including its constituent processes
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Windows NT Server 4 0 Network Analysis and Optimization - Part 1

... Monitor, a Windows NT network traffic data capturing and analyzing tool.
Analyze and optimize the client initialization traffic in a Windows NT environment.
Analyze and optimize the client-to-server traffic in a Windows NT environment.
C ontent Emphasis
Skills-Based
A udience
This series is intended for IT professionals who will be responsible for supporting
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Windows 2000 Upgrading from Windows NT 4 0--Part 1

...ime 6 to 8 hours 72451 Objectives Unit 1: Migration: Analyzing the Environment 2 - 3 hours o Identify the features of the domain upgrade process. o Identify the advantages of the domain upgrade process in a specified situation. o Identify the situations in which domain upgrade should be implemented. o Identify the reasons for selecting a specific mode of domain upgrade in a specified
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Windows 2000 Upgrading from Windows NT 4 0--Part 1

...ime 6 to 8 hours 72451 Objectives Unit 1: Migration: Analyzing the Environment 2 - 3 hours o Identify the features of the domain upgrade process. o Identify the advantages of the domain upgrade process in a specified situation. o Identify the situations in which domain upgrade should be implemented. o Identify the reasons for selecting a specific mode of domain upgrade in a specified
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Operations Management Fundamentals of Operations Management

... your understanding of Icon a a s operations. Unit 2:Analyzing Operation Processes (0.5 - 1 hour) Select the forces that affect processes. Evaluate external forces that affect processes. Evaluate internal forces that affect processes. Identify the types of quality management tools.
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Strategic Management Series

The Strategic Management Series includes the following courses: Strategic Management: Establishing Strategic Focus Strategic Management: Analyzing Strategic Options Strategic Management: Developing a Successful Process To review individual course descriptions, please return to the previous page and select the desired title(s).
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CIW Server Administrator Part 5 Server Integrity

... and fault tolerance. Identify considerations for analyzing server performance. Identify the effects of queues and bottlenecks. Monitor the effects of Internet-based connections on system performance. Identify features of the top program. Identify the functions of the vmstat program. Identify methods to improve Internet server performance by using
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CIW Internetworking Professional Curriculum

...identifying infrastructure components, and monitoring and analyzing network performance. They will also be responsible for the design and management of enterprise TCP/IP networks. Prerequisite knowledge for this curriculum is that learners must have CIW Foundations certification or equivalent experience. CIW accepts CompTIA's iNET+ certification in place of the CIW Foundations course. This
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CIW Internetworking Professional Part 1 TCP IP Fundamentals

...identifying infrastructure components, and monitoring and analyzing network performance. They will also be responsible for the design and management of enterprise TCP/IP networks. Prerequisite knowledge for this curriculum is that students must have CIW Foundations certification or equivalent experience. CIW accepts CompTIA's iNET+ certification in place of the CIW Foundations course. This
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CIW Internetworking Professional Part 2 IP Model

...identifying infrastructure components, and monitoring and analyzing network performance. They will also be responsible for the design and management of enterprise TCP/IP networks. Prerequisite knowledge for this curriculum is that students must have CIW Foundations certification or equivalent experience. CIW accepts CompTIA's iNET+ certification in place of the CIW Foundations course. This
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CIW Internetworking Professional Part 3 TCP IP Functions Services

...identifying infrastructure components, and monitoring and analyzing network performance. They will also be responsible for the design and management of enterprise TCP/IP networks. Prerequisite knowledge for this curriculum is that students must have CIW Foundations certification or equivalent experience. CIW accepts CompTIA's iNET+ certification in place of the CIW Foundations course. This
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CIW Internetworking Professional Part 4 Network Management

...identifying infrastructure components, and monitoring and analyzing network performance. They will also be responsible for the design and management of enterprise TCP/IP networks. Prerequisite knowledge for this curriculum is that students must have CIW Foundations certification or equivalent experience. CIW accepts CompTIA's iNET+ certification in place of the CIW Foundations course. This
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CIW Internetworking Professional Part 5 IPv6

...identifying infrastructure components, and monitoring and analyzing network performance. They will also be responsible for the design and management of enterprise TCP/IP networks. Prerequisite knowledge for this curriculum is that students must have CIW Foundations certification or equivalent experience. CIW accepts CompTIA's iNET+ certification in place of the CIW Foundations course. This
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SAP R 3 Workflow Scenario

The course, SAP R/3 Workflow Scenario, aims to provide an overview of the functionality and applications of the SAP Business Workflow System using the workflow scenario Notification of absence from Personnel Management as an example. The user will be introduced to the tools that are required for a workflow, takes a closer look at a multi-level workflow based on a notification of absence and
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Defining Microsoft NET Solution Architectures Part 1

... To identify considerations for analyzing industry positions, personnel, and regulations. To identify features of use cases. To identify guidelines for creating usage scenarios. To identify considerations for application globalization and localization. To
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Advanced Business Comm Business Writing for Results

In the Advanced Business Communication: Business Writing for Results course, students will learn about writing reports, proposals, and case reports with the audience in mind. Students will cover how to effectively use visual support, including tables, graphs, drawings, and diagrams. In addition, students will learn about planning, preparing, and delivering business presentations and speeches.
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Excel 2003 Expert Part 2

... Manage a function in Excel. Unit 2: Auditing, Analyzing and Structuring Data (1 - 2 hours) Check data in Excel. Use Evaluate Formula, cell Watch, and Data Validation. Structure data using XML. Analyze and project data in Excel. Unit 3: Modifying Excel and Working with Macros (1 hour)
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Financial Management Series

The Financial Management Series includes the following courses:
Financial Management: Accounting Fundamentals
Financial Management: Understanding Financial Statements
Financial Management: Financial Planning & Forecasting
Financial Management: Cash Analysis & Management
Financial Management: Analyzing Financial Statements
Financial Management: Inventory Costing & Depreciation
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Advanced Financial Statements Series

The Advanced Financial Statements Series includes the following courses: Financial Statements: Financial Statements Analysis Financial Statements: Reading and Analyzing an Annual Report Financial Statements: Analyzing Cash Flows To review individual course descriptions, please return to the previous page and select the desired title(s).
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Designing a MS Exchange Server 2003 Organization Infrastructure

...rning Time:
8 hours
Objectives:
Unit 1: Analyzing Active Directory
Identify physical and logical aspects of an existing network design.
Identify important aspects of Active Directory that impact Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.
Identify considerations for integrating Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 with Active Directory.
Identify benefits of Active Directory group
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Advanced Six Sigma Your Role as a Green Belt

...an.
Understand the processes involved in gathering and analyzing the data collected during a Six Sigma project.
Understand the processes involved in implementing improvements and controlling them in the future.
Audience:
The target audience for this course is individuals being asked to consider becoming a Green Belt, and those interested in learning more about what is involved
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Six Sigma DMAIC Analyzing the Data
There's one thing that doctors, mechanics, and detectives sometimes share in common--getting to the source of something that's gone wrong in a system. Things go wrong in business systems too, and to get at the source of the problem, you have to dig down deep. This course is all about making sure Six Sigma Green belts and team members dig deep enough, to where the solutions are simplest. In order
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Analyzing Requirements Using Models
There are various types of solution development methodologies that a business analyst must consider when modeling software or business systems. These approaches include business process, object-oriented, and structured analysis methodologies. Though the decision of which methodology to use depends on the culture and standards of the organization, a business analyst can only properly represent the
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The Writing Process
...y to complete the entire document--defining your message, analyzing your audience, deciding on your approach, worrying about grammar and spelling, organizing your information, and choosing your words precisely--all in a single step? If so, there may be an easier, quicker, and far more effective way to tackle your writing project.This course divides the writing process into manageable
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Six Sigma DMAIC Analyzing the Process
... cup of coffee that's "off" in flavor or temperature--and analyzing it, is the focus of this course. Specifically, the course offers methods for Six Sigma Green Belts and team members to put simple flowcharts to use to improve business processes that create defects. In Lesson 1 you'll explore the world of flowcharts. You'll learn what symbols to use in them, how to construct them, and why
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From 6P International, LLC
Analyzing Financial Statements - Advanced
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course examines financial statements in detail, including components of a balance sheet, their calculations, and the effects of transactions on the balance sheet and the income statement. Students should have some prior understanding of financial statements before taking this course.
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From Serebra Learning Corporation
NET Solution Vision and Requirements
To establish the steps and techniques needed to define a solution vision and gather and analyze requirements A wide range of IT professionals, including system architects, systems analysts, developers, consultants, and those wishing to learn more about designing solutions
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Win2000 Netwk Sec Design Analyzing an Org Sec Reqts
In this course you will learn to analyze an organization's business models, processes, organizational structures, and IT management structure. You will learn the various network roles and responsibilities and will analyze the impact of security design on an organization. After learning about the different types of network security risks, you will learn to plan secure boundaries through firewalls
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Preparing for the Executive-level Sale Simulation
You are a regional account representative with DME Corporation, a national direct mail service provider. Your company has recently made a large investment toward the goal of becoming a "one-stop" shop with its new Fulfillment Division. You are charged with selling the new fulfillment service to your existing client base, as well as prospecting for new accounts. As you begin preparing to sell the
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Customer Satisfaction Analysis and Implementation
What you get out of a well-designed customer satisfaction survey will depend largely on the power of the analytical tools you apply to the data and the effectiveness of actions taken based on the resulting information. Although the analysis itself is best conducted by your statistical team, you'll be able to use survey results more effectively if you understand how key analytical tools are
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Consulting with the External Client Simulation
Modern corporations employ consultants for their experience, knowledge, and skills. The primary responsibility of these consultants is to facilitate decision making for senior management. To do this, external consultants gather information using proven techniques, analyze current business situations with specific diagnostic methods, and make recommendations based on those processes. In this
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Project IT Management Simulation - The Early Stages
American Auto is a large automobile company that designs, manufactures, and markets cars and trucks worldwide. With its one price and no-haggle sales approach, the company has been very successful and continues to increase its customer base. To further simplify the buying process, American Auto has recently embraced the idea of upgrading its web site's virtual showroom to allow for online
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Advanced Project Leadership Organization Strategy and Business Needs
Advanced Project Leadership: Organization, Strategy and Business Needs teaches project managers how to be successful managing high profile projects in large corporations by learning how to navigate different organization types, and what role project management plays in the different organization types. You will acquire the skills necessary to determine company strategy and the process to use that
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The Role of Critical Thinking in Organizations
In the organizational arena, applied critical thinking skills provide an essential foundation for all effective planning, problem-solving, and decision-making activities. Employees who can analyze and reason consistently and proficiently furnish a cost-efficient resource that results in a distinctive competitive advantage. Workers who are skeptical of quick fixes and operational dogma pay
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Critical Thinking Strategies Simulation
You have recently been hired as the general manager at Retail Management Software (RMS). The company began as a small start-up company five years ago, developing software that helps retailers create, manage, and fulfill consumer demand. The founders and owners, Fred Chambers and Larry Busby, and their small team worked hard and developed great products. Recently, RMS' business has increased a
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An Essential Guide to Giving Feedback
The performance of any business depends upon the performance of everyone within the organization. To ensure that all staff are meeting their potential it is essential that there is a culture which enables feedback to be given and received. This course enables you to become familiar with the key aspects of giving candid, constructive feedback about performance. The purpose of this course is to
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Mentoring Essentials Simulation
...ithin The Research Company that focuses on collecting and analyzing data on wireless technologies. You are heading up a new research project that deals with forecasting advertising revenue for wireless communication tools over the next five years. While managing this project, you have also been assigned Tilly Newman, a new hire in your department, to be your protege. Your responsibilities
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Selecting the Best Applicant
Making decisions is always difficult, and that applies particularly to choosing a new employee. This course will show you the most effective methods for evaluating and choosing the best applicants. It will show you how to analyze the information from the interview--by working in a focused framework--and how to compare candidates. You will examine and avoid the most common problems with decision
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Employee Relations HRCI PHR
The Human Resource Certification Institute's (HRCI) certification examinations cover a broad range of workforce planning and employment issues, including those affecting employee and labor relations. The (HRCI) certification examinations are widely recognized as the industry standard for evaluating Human Resource professionals' competencies. The Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification
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Analyzing Cash Flow Statements
... to make a more informed and better business decision; by analyzing your company's financial statements. They contain information that can help you improve your company's efficiency and overall effectiveness. Cash flow statement analysis focuses on determining your company's ability in the following four areas: (1) ability to meet short-term obligations and to efficiently generate revenue, (2)
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Final Exam Accounting 102
Generally taken near the end of a program, Final Exam: Accounting 102 enables the learner to test their knowledge in a testing environment. Individuals seeking practice in a testing environment, covering the skills and competencies being measured by the courseware.
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Six Sigma--Measurement System Re-analysis
Have you ever tried to change your life with a diet or exercise program, only to backslide and lose all the positive changes you made? It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal--improved health and fitness--after reaching your goal weight and fitness level. Maintaining positive changes takes just as much effort and vigilance as making the changes initially. Likewise for businesses--the benefits
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Design and Analysis
...nto account all of the necessary factors by designing and analyzing full factorial experiments, fractional factorial experiments, and experiments for special cases, such as Plackett-Burman, Box-Behnken, and Central Composite Design (CCD). Six Sigma is a registered Trademark of Motorola Corporation, and all right, title, and interest in Six Sigma belongs to Motorola. Candidates for Black Belt
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Measurement Systems
...ovement--conducted before collecting measurement data--is analyzing the measuring system to ensure that measurements are made without bias, are reproducible by all measuring instruments, and are repeatable by all operators. In this course, you will learn about Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA). You will see how to assess properties of a measurement system, including how to plan and conduct a
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Analyzing Process Capability
Process capability is determined by a range of variables including people, machines, materials and measurements. The cumulative result must be quantified numerically to determine current performance and project future potential. To do so requires a knowledge of control limits, specification limits, capability indices, and the difference between short- and long-term variability. This course teaches
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Six Sigma DMAIC Analyzing the Data
There's one thing that doctors, mechanics, and detectives sometimes share in common--getting to the source of something that's gone wrong in a system. Things go wrong in business systems too, and to get at the source of the problem, you have to dig down deep. This course is all about making sure Six Sigma Green belts and team members dig deep enough, to where the solutions are simplest. In order
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Six Sigma DMAIC Analyzing the Process
Imagine the perfect cup of coffee--it tastes and smells great, it's served at exactly the right temperature, and, best of all, it satisfies you every time. Because it's perfect, you find yourself returning again and again to the cafe that sells it. The perfect cup of coffee--or the perfect product or service--is what Six Sigma is all about. To achieve Six Sigma, a product or service has to be 99.9
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Lean Value
Finding methods to capture customer-driven value is not a new activity. You've probably analyzed processes, conducting customer surveys, and used audits to determine what customers want. Yet, according to lean thinkers these techniques don't go far enough. They still departmentalize the value concept. Lean experts propose a more holistic view of value that stretches beyond organizational
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Analyzing the Market
...his course will walk you through four crucial elements of analyzing your market. First, you'll learn to scan your environment, considering the economical, technological, social, and political impacts on your organization. Then you'll learn how market segmentation can assist you in developing products and marketing strategies. You'll be given a set of tools that can be utilized for developing
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Marketing Management
So, now you're a marketing manager. What are the expectations you and others have of this position? What skills do you need? How do you put together a marketing team? How do you lead that team to success? How can you tell if you're doing a good job? In this course you'll look at marketing management from top to bottom--starting from the basic skills you need as a marketing manager, through
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Financial Analysis for Successful Marketing
Whether you have a "head" for numbers, or a "dread" of numbers, no strategic marketing plan will be successful without a thorough financial analysis. The final course in this series takes a user-friendly, interactive approach to help you master the numbers game. You will analyze typical financial parameters associated with setting up a financial budget as part of an overall marketing strategy.
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Problem Solving and Process Management Tools
...olving and process management tools used for identifying, analyzing, and solving quality and process-related problems. The course is aligned with the Quality Management Division of the American Society for Quality's Certification Handbook, and is designed to assist learners as part of their preparation for the ASQ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence certification exam.
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Measurement Assessment and Metrics
...ective manager is continuously gathering, monitoring, and analyzing information as it relates to organizational performance.This course explores data analysis techniques used to detect trends of projects and processes. It describes key concepts in statistical analysis and explains how data-gathering affects the people in an organization and vice versa. It is aligned with the Quality Management
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Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with UML Analyzing the System
To show how to specify object interaction in the UML and to identify associations and inheritance between classes Web developers
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Developing NET Specifications Strategies and Conceptual Design
To define development and operations strategies and derive the conceptual design A wide range of IT professionals, including system architects, systems analysts, developers, consultants, and those wishing to learn more about designing solutions
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Creating the NET Logical Design
To derive the logical design for the solution A wide range of IT professionals, including system architects, systems analysts, developers, consultants, and those wishing to learn more about designing solutions
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Creating the NET Physical Design
To create the physical design for the solution A wide range of IT professionals, including system architects, systems analysts, developers, consultants, and those wishing to learn more about designing solutions
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Analyzing Requirements and Resources for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server
To identify what company requirements and resources need to be analyzed before a messaging solution can be designed Students preparing for Microsoft Exam 70-225 Designing and Deploying a Messaging Infrastructure with Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, IS administrators, network administrators, IS consultants, and staff involved in the support of IS systems who wish to attain an understanding of the
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Planning and Designing a Security Infrastructure
To identify the main features and design criteria of a security infrastructure and framework Prospective systems engineers; technical support engineers, and technical consultants seeking competency in Windows Server 2003; systems and network analysts seeking competency in Windows Server 2003
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High-Availability Concepts and Monitoring in Microsoft Application Center 2000
To discuss high-availability concepts and to outline how to monitor Application Center 2000 Candidates preparing for the MCSE elective exam 70-232: Implementing and Maintaining Highly Available Web Solutions with Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Technologies and Microsoft Application Center 2000; IT professionals with experience administering and monitoring web servers; IT professionals familiar with
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OS 390 MVS JCL Advanced
This course builds and extends the skills and knowledge developed in the OS/390 MVS JCL Introduction and Intermediate courses (38053, 38054). This advanced course introduces techniques to increase effectiveness as a system user and JCL programmer. The course reviews and extends basic concepts and skills related to the use of procedures. A review of addition, override, and nullification statements
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Analyzing the Network
This module covers network performance concepts, estimating traffic volumes and patterns, taking baseline measurements of LAN traffic, and developing a traffic specification document.
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Performance Tuning Methodology and Tools in Oracle9i
To describe the methods and goals of database tuning and the utilities and tools used to analyze and tune an Oracle9i database Anyone wishing to learn about Oracle9i database performance tuning
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Analyzing Data in Excel 2007
Excel 2007 provides powerful data analysis tools that enable you to explore large amounts of data and to make educated business decisions based on that data. With PivotTable reports you can interactively summarize data, making it easier to analyze and present the results. PivotChart reports provide a graphical view of PivotTable report data. Using Goal Seek and Solver enables you to retrieve
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Microsoft Office 2000 - Excel for Power Users
To bring proficient users of Excel 2000 to an advanced level of competence in using macros and sharing, displaying, formatting, and analyzing data End-users seeking proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel 2000 at an advanced level; end-users seeking to obtain Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification in Microsoft Excel 2000 at Expert level
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Getting Started With Excel 2003
The Getting Started With Excel 2003WBT is the first course in the Excel 2003 curriculum. It familiarizes the students with the fundamentals of Excel 2003. This course teaches the students how to create and manage workbooks and enter data, and edit data in an Excel workbook. The course also teaches the user to apply various types of formatting and enhancements to data in a worksheet. This course is
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Financial Management: Budgeting Essentials
In Financial Management: Budgeting Essentials, participants learn how to create and enforce a budget by analyzing financial statements, setting objectives, and monitoring performance.
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Financial Management: Analyzing Financial Statements
In Financial Management: Analyzing Financial Statements, participants will learn about the various tools available for analyzing financial statements.
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Distributed Application Design and Development using Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 - Part 1


This is the first course in a three part series designed for developers. This series will introduce them to the opportunities and challenges of creating enterprise-level applications. Participants will see how creating such flexible and scalable applications can be challenging and will learn how to address these challenges by employing appropriate design, tools, and technology.
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Microsoft Windows 2000 Network - Designing Security Part 1: Security Planning
This is the first course in a five-part series of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Network - Designing Security curriculum which prepares participants for Microsoft Exam 70-220. This course provides participants with an opportunity to learn the Windows 2000 security model and technologies to plan for a secure enterprise network, creating and analyzing a network security plan, planning secure and
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Organizational Communication Communicating in the Workplace
Organizational Communication: Communicating in the Workplace is designed to help students understand how communication flows within an organization, how networks develop, and what roles individuals fulfill in an organization. The program also gives students guidelines for applying technology to organizational communication. By applying the guidelines, students will be able to communicate
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RDBMS Concepts
...to manage this data effectively, and to use this data for analyzing its requirements and controlling its activities. Since the volume of data available to an organization might be vast, it is important to process this data to derive relevant information quickly. The data can be managed effectively using database management systems. Database management continues to gain importance as more and
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Data Management and Analysis with Excel 2002
The Data Management and Analysis with Excel 2002 WBT is the second course in the Office XP: Excel 2002 curriculum. This course teaches the user how to effectively manage data in Excel and analyse data based on certain functions. The functions dealt with in this course include mathematical, logical, date and time, text, lookup and reference, financial, and statistical functions. Additionally, the
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Project Management - Project Risk Management
In Project Management - Project Risk Management you will learn how to define identify and plan for risks that inevitably occur in projects. You will also learn two methods for analyzing project risk qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis. Finally you will learn constructive ways to respond to monitor and control risks to effectively manage the threats and opportunities that affect
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Financial Management - Analyzing Financial Statements
This course will focus on how financial statements are used by management to improve the organization's performance and by investors when they set values on an organization's stocks and bonds. You will learn about ratio analysis the tools used to analyze financial statements.
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Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Designing Security Part 1
The course covers designing a secure network infrastructure. Topics include assembling the design team modeling threats and analyzing security risks in order to meet business requirements for securing computers in a networked environment. The course encourages decision-making skills through an interactive tool that simulates real-life scenarios that the target audience may encounter. This course
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MCSD Solutions Architecture I
The first course in series of four courses that is designed to provide all of the information a student needs to complete Microsoft's Solutions Architecture exam 70-100. This course explains how to analyze the business requirements for designing new software. This course provides an overview of the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) Microsoft's guidelines for planning building and
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MCSD Solutions Architecture II
The second course in a series of four courses that is designed to provide all of the information a student needs to complete Microsoft's Solutions Architecture exam 70-100. This course describes the process of designing a technical architecture. This course will describe networking technologies such as clients servers network types network models and network protocols. It also describes the
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MCSD Solutions Architecture III
The third course in series of four courses that is designed to provide all of the information a student needs to complete Microsoft's Solutions Architecture exam 70-100. This course explains how to design applications and data models for designing new software. It describes the logical design phase and shows how to create class diagrams logical data models and user interface prototypes. This
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MCSD Solutions Architecture IV
This course explains how to implement data services with SQL Server and how to create service components user interfaces and user services with Visual Basic 6.0.
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Microsoft Windows 2000 Network - Designing Security Part 1: Security Planning


This is the first course in a five-part series of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Network - Designing Security curriculum which prepares participants for Microsoft Exam 70-220. This course provides participants with an opportunity to learn the Windows 2000 security model and technologies to plan for a secure enterprise network, creating and analyzing a network security plan, planning secure and
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Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with UML Part 2: Analysis, State Diagrams and Activity Diagrams
This second course in the series focuses on analyzing and modeling system behavior. It describes how to create a conceptual model that identifies the concepts in a problem domain and how to model the system events that actors generate with system sequence diagrams. This course also introduces dynamic modeling with state and activity diagrams.
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Implementing Microsoft Site Server 3.0 - Part 3
This is the final course in a three part series that will help students prepare for the Microsoft Certified Professional exam 70-056 Implementing and Supporting Web Sites Using Microsoft Site Server 3.0. At the completion of this course students will learn to identify the tasks and procedures associated with the Knowledge Manager; and identify the tools and procedures for analyzing Web site usage
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Financial Statements: Financial Statements Analysis
Financial Statements: Financial Statements Analysis offers the student an overview of financial statements budgets and ratio analysis. The program details how to create a balance sheet and income statement the purpose of these financial statements the role of budgeting in accounting how to combat budgeting variances and the different methods of analyzing financial statements.
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Financial Statements: Reading and Analyzing an Annual Report
Financial Statements: Reading and Analyzing an Annual Report teaches the student how to read and analyze an annual report and its notes of disclosure. The program details the characteristics users and components of annual reports and notes of disclosure that will help the student understand why it is important to create analyze and comprehend annual reports.
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Financial Statements: Analyzing Cash Flows
...Analyzing Cash Flows offers the student an overview of accounting methods the statement of cash flows stock and financial ratios. The program details how accounting methods affect financial statements who looks at your financial statements and for what reasons and how financing instruments affect financial statements. It also covers the methods used for and activities reported in the statement
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Budgeting: Creating and Analyzing a Budget
Budgeting: Creating and Analyzing a Budget gives the student an overview of the purpose of budgeting the types of budgets and the elements of a successful budget. The program includes a process for creating a budget ways to analyze and compare budgets and important guidelines to apply during the budgeting process.
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Introduction to Data Warehousing
This course presents an introduction to Data Warehousing. Beginning with the basic concepts of data warehousing this course helps you understand the processes involved in and the architecture of data warehousing. The tools involved in analyzing the warehouse data will also be covered. Finally you'll learn about the Oracle data warehouse.
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Strategic Management: Analyzing Strategic Options
...Analyzing Strategic Options offers the student an overview of the information required to develop an effective strategic option consider appropriate issues when performing a strategic audit and use the SWOT review to analyze a company's situation. The program describes how to evaluate internal resources capabilities and core competencies and analyze external factors such as industry trends and
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Competitive Intelligence: Analysis and Dissemination
Competitive Intelligence: Analysis and Dissemination offers the student an overview of the competitive intelligence (CI) process and how to analyze and distribute results in an organization. The program covers in detail how to ensure collecting accurate information and the available techniques for analyzing industry market and company information. It also covers the steps for distributing CI
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Data Management in MS Excel 2000
This course is the second course in a series of three in the Excel 2000 curriculum. This course teaches the students how to effectively work with and manage data in Excel 2000. The tasks involved in working and managing data include formatting data, performing calculations, using functions to perform calculations, and sorting, summarizing, and analyzing data using Excel.
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From Seletel Informatique
Investing Fundamentals
This series covers basic investing information and strategies. Fundamental topics covered include planning your financial goals, budgeting, managing diversification and risk, and options for retirement savings. Organization of finances is covered in detail, including analyzing net worth, putting aside emergency funds, and proper record keeping. An in-depth examination of investment options,
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Dealing with Difficult People
This series presents strategies for handling interpersonal tension in the workplace. In each course, learners will gain insight into analyzing situations, determining the best courses of action, and resolving problems. Scenarios and examples include working with difficult people in any organizational situation - supervisors, peers, and subordinates.
Audience:
This series is for anyone who is
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From LearningMeasure.com
Intermediate DC Circuit Theory
This intermediate course on DC circuit analysis discusses various methods of analyzing circuits to determine currents and voltages.
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From Management Development Associates (NA) Inc.
Financial analysis Module 1 - Analyzing the income statement




- MDA Training -
In this module, we work through the various components of the income statement and explain how best to analyze it.
Using real-life case studies, you will learn how to perform robust vertical and horizontal income statement analysis using various performance ratios. You will also learn how to approach benchmarking income statement performance against an appropriate peer
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Financial analysis Module 2 - Analyzing the balance sheet




- MDA Training -
In this second segment, you will analyze the balance sheet to determine the operational efficiency of a company. Key ratios taken from the balance sheet and its implications on a company's cash flow are thoroughly explained in this segment.
Illustrated using a technology and a retail company, we will show you how to conduct a comprehensive analysis using efficiency ratios
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From Technology Ed
Design of Experiments DOE

Design of experiments (DOE) is a systematic, rigorous approach to engineering problem-solving that applies principles and techniques at the data collection stage so as to ensure the generation of valid, defensible, and supportable engineering conclusions. In addition, all of this is carried out under the constraint of a minimal expenditure of engineering runs, time, and money.
Design of
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From International Management Forum (IMF)
TOGAF 9 and ArchiMate Foundation
..., ArchiMate offers a range of techniques for visualizing, analyzing, designing and using Enterprise Architecture to solve business change. ArchiMate supports frameworks like TOGAF, DYA and IAF.
About a The Open Groupa
The Open Group is a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, whose vision of Boundaryless Information Flowa will enable access to integrated information, within
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From Lovecchio Consulting
Industrial Management

To acquire a working methodology structured to allow the acquisition of complete and reliable information and the consequent improvement in the level of customer service.
To learn how to reduce operational costs by analyzing and evaluating the activities typical of industrial management.
To be able to maintain control of management, even in the face of rapidly changing domestic conditions
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From Learningdom
BO XI R2 training
What is BusinessObjects XI, Introduction to BusinessObjects XI Product Components, Introducing Web Intelligence, Getting Started with InfoView, Customizing InfoView, Creating Web Intelligence Documents with Queries, Restricting Data Returned by a Query, Report Design in the Java Report Panel, Enhancing the Presentation of Reports, Formatting Reports, Creating Formulas and Variables, Synchronizing
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From ProTrain Online
Green Training - Home Energy Analyst HERS



...cts, procedures for performing audits, and guidelines for analyzing potential retrofits. A balanced approach to building performance is presented here that addresses energy efficiency, building durability, and human health. The information presented here covers the topic areas included in the BPI Building Certification Model, the RESNET Home Energy Rating Standards, and the WAP Core
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From Improsys
Six sigma Training Program





...faction
Six Sigma is a data driven approach focused on analyzing the root causes of business problems and solving them.
Six Sigma Training
Instructor led Class Room Training
Online Training
Paricipants complete the Black Belt /Green Belt program 100% online.
High quality online tutorials/notes for each topic of Six Sigma
Online Multimedia Audio/ Video Classroom trainings
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From Hurley Write, Inc.
Writing Fundamentals


This five-week online course covers the fundamentals of writing effective documents, including analyzing audience and purpose, avoiding "noise," understanding the rhetorical context, using language effectively, and creating useful editing and proofreading strategies.
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From CoursePark
Dealing with Difficult People
This series presents strategies for handling interpersonal tension in the workplace. In each course, learners will gain insight into analyzing situations, determining the best courses of action, and resolving problems. Scenarios and examples include working with difficult people in any organizational situation - supervisors, peers, and subordinates.
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From Wavelength
Wavelength's Instructional Design and Content Writing Online [IDCWC Online] Certificate Course



...14. Structuring Content to Meet Design Requirements
15. Analyzing your Audience and Creating Audience Profile
16. Techniques for Sifting Content
17. Writing for the Intended Audience
18. Visualization Skills for Interactive Learning
19. Writing Effective Visual Description
20. Writing Effective Voice-overs and Dialogs
21. Ensuring Content Flow and Clarity
22. Prevalent ID/
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From Coaching Ourselves
Beyond Bullying
...rformance. It is, therefore, worth investing some time in analyzing what it is, how it arises, and what can be done about it.
Whether you are experiencing some bullying problems within your organization or are interested in understanding more fully some of the dynamics around the misuse of power within organizations, understanding bullying will help you build and sustain better outcomes.
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Analyzing Employee Performance
Author: Terence Traut
Arguably, the most important job of a manager is to manage the performance of employees. Whether they use traditional performance management - goal setting with the employee followed by regular performance monitoring followed by annual appraisal - or a less traditional method, such as self-directed teams, effective performance managers, we suggest, look before they leap.
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From PDHengineer. com-Decatur Professional Development, LLC
Analyzing Employee Performance Problems
This online course will teach you how to analyze employee performance problems quickly and identify methods of dealing with them effectively. It takes you systematically through ten sequential steps to discover whether something that management controls is the root of the problem. This technique allows managers to retain good will with employees by looking at reasons other than the employee first
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Manage Productivity to Maximize Profit
...ting production capacity and forecast future demand while analyzing data to determine breakeven points for equipment purchase or leasing and creating optimal staffing strategies with full or part-time help. Profitability only comes when we make the most efficient and effective use of our existing resources and available data. The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of
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Monitoring Groundwater Conditions
...ses the many applications and techniques for sampling and analyzing groundwater. Regulatory requirements stipulate the minimum water quality of groundwater sources. Monitoring wells are used to obtain samples of subsurface groundwater for analysis. But, how do you construct a monitoring well? And what types of measurements should be taken to ensure regulatory compliance? In this course, you
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Engineering Economics - Project Analysis
...t will apply the fundamentals of Engineering Economics to analyzing a project. The course assumes the student has a working knowledge of the topics covered in Engineering Economics - Fundamentals (i.e., time value of money, inflation, depreciation, project cash flows, etc.) After completing this course, the student should understand how to apply economic analysis tools like Total Life Cycle
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Wireless Sensor Network Implementation in the Industrial Plant Setting
...ourse will help the engineer to answer those questions by analyzing several case studies in applying wireless instrumentation and systems into the industrial plant setting. The ideas and concepts presented in this course should give the reader the basic principals of wireless instrumentation, when wireless is a viable option and when it isn't, a framework for installing a wireless system in
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Engineering Sketching for Design and Communication
...s of production processes originating equipment designs analyzing equipment performance communicating ideas reducing the time to complete engineering projects Mechanical, electrical, piping, structural, chemical, instrumentation, environmental, industrial, and process engineering disciplines use graphics in one or more forms. The freehand sketching techniques described in this course
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Project Performance Secrets
... will lead the students through a step-by-step process of analyzing the way they have always done projects and make suggestions for new ways of looking at them. The payoff is that implementation of these secrets to the fullest extent possible on a project will go a long way to improving project performance, reducing the amount of work process obstacles that arise, and speed the assimilation of
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From The Virtual Training Company
Microsoft Access 2002
Virtual Training Company author Dave Mercer teaches database users the fundamentals of Microsoft Access 2002. Whether an advanced, or first time database user, Access 2002 delivers powerful tools for managing and analyzing data. Learn efficient database design, how to create effective tables, and the secrets of querying. Learn the logistics of datatypes and Auto-number fields. Also, learn how to
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Introduction to E-Commerce
...analyzing, designing and building an E-Commerce website. The course is taught from the viewpoint of a web developer working with a small business client and covers such topics as proposals, contracts, site design, marketing, financial and security considerations, shopping cart technology, billing, order processing, shipping, confirmation and much more. From beginning concepts to final site
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Microsoft Windows IIS 4
...llows search options, a site server express that helps in analyzing a site, and a transaction server that provides secure connections. In Virtual Training Company's tutorial, author Louis DiPaola uses the sample web site that can be installed with IIS 4 to better explain how the system works. He first teaches you how to install the option pack, and then thoroughly explains the many server
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