Business Skills for IT Professionals

Select a course below for a course description, the upcoming public schedule worldwide, and enrollment information.

• VL131 Managing Project Teams, Timelines, and Budgets

  This self-paced virtual course contains a series of training modules focused on developing key skills for successful people and team managers. The course includes training modules and simulations for topics, including managing projects and teams; planning and controlling budgets; time management and teamwork.

• VL141 Developing Skills for Effective Leadership

  This self-paced virtual course contains a series of training modules focused on developing leadership skills for new and seasoned managers and project leaders. The course includes modules and simulations for topics, including leading effective teams; managing conflict; effective facilitation and financial basics for non-financial managers.

• VL145 Communication: Effective and Persuasive Writing and Negotiation

  This self-paced virtual course contains a series of training modules focused on developing effective persuasive techniques used in written documents and negotiations. The course includes modules and simulations for topics, including writing effective emails; advanced business writing; persuasive writing; negotiating skills in action; and organizing and presenting ideas.

• VL151 (IIBA) Certified Business Analysis Professional Exam Preparation

  This self-paced virtual course contains a series of eight training modules that prepare you for the major testing areas for IIBA certification. The course includes modules for topics ranging from fundamentals of requirements elicitation, describing business process to determining information requirements and eliciting data warehouse requirements.

• VL161 Web Programming Fundamentals: CSS, Javascript, XML and HTMLFundamentals

  This self-paced virtual course contains a series of training modules focused on key skills to develop modern Web sites and Web-enabled applications. Modules in this course discuss JavaScript; web design with XHTML, HTML and CSS; cascading style sheets and XML.

• VL171 Administering Red Hat Linux

  This self-paced virtual course contains a series of training modules focused on developing Red Hat Linux administration skills. The first part of the course, Essentials of Red Hat Linux, explores the shell environment, the Linux filesystem, and basic aspects of Linux system administration. Part two of the course, System Administration of Red Hat Linux 5, delves deeper into Red Hat Linux administration for systems and networks.

• VL172 Linux: System, Server and Network Administration

  This self-paced virtual course contains a series of training modules focused on developing general Linux administration skills. The course is comprised of three parts, including a system administration module, an Apache Web Server and a Linux network administration module.

• VL173 Administering SUSE Linux

  This self-paced virtual course contains a series of training modules focused on developing SUSE Linux administration skills. The first part of the course, SUSE Linux fundamentals, provides an overview of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, the YaST management utility and editing files in the Linux system using graphical and command line editors. Part two of the course, SUSE Linux administration, basic SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 administration skills in preparation for the Novell® Certified Linux® Professional (Novell CLP) certification practicum test. The final section of the course, SUSE Linux Network Services, advanced administration is discussed, including using BIND to configure a DNS server, DHCP to manage networks, setting up a print server, using Samba to connect to Windows, configuring a mail server, using OpenSLP, monitor network traffic, and deploying Tomcat.