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It’s that time again!
As always here are the rules for Tricky Trivia…
Answer the question in the comments to be eligible to win . Once you’ve submitted the answer in your comment, we’ll have a drawing and randomly pick a winner. The winner, who will be contacted via email by a LearnKey staff member, will be posted next Thursday, along with a new trivia question for the week.
Here’s the question:
True or False
One of the new features in Excel 2010 is the support of new XL features and visualizations- including slicers, sparklines and new conditional formatting.
This week’s prize: LearnKey branded 1gb flash drive
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Contest run time: Thursday July 29th- Wednesday August 4th
Winner posted: Thursday August 5th
* Only North American residents are eligible to win prize *
*In order to receive prize notification, you must provide a valid email address with your comment*
Working with Web Pages and Sites: Saving Sites
Expert Ammon Wiese teaches you how to save web sites by adding them to your favorites bar. Check it out!
Implementing IOS Network Security
LearnKey’s Implementing IOS Network Security course featuring Tom Carpenter has been released!
The Implementing IOS Network Security course maps to Cisco’s 640-553 IINS certification. This exam is geared toward individuals who are looking to specialize in security. With a CCNA Security certification, a network professional demonstrates the skills required to develop a security infrastructure, recognize threats and vulnerabilities to networks, and mitigate security threats. The CCNA Security curriculum emphasizes core security technologies, the installation, troubleshooting and monitoring of network devices to maintain integrity, confidentiality and availability of data and devices, and competency in the technologies that Cisco uses in its security structure.
After taking this course, you will be able to recognize and describe the threats facing network infrastructures, you will learn to mitigate threats to your routers using ACLs and you will learn to implement firewalls and VPNs using the Security Device Manager, SDM.
Working with Web Pages and Sites: Search Providers and Managing Search Providers
In these two clips, you’ll learn how to change and/or add different search providers in Internet Explorer 8, as well as how to manage them.
Search Providers
Managing Search Providers
Working with Web Pages and Sites: Finding Sites
Expert Ammon Wiese teaches the tips and tricks when it comes to finding particular sites using the search options that are available in Internet Explorer 8.
Working with Web Pages and Sites: Managing Web Slices
In this clip, Expert Ammon Wiese briefly explains how simple it is to manage your newly created Web Slices in Internet Explorer 8.
A Little Heart to Heart Today…
Okay guys… Looks like we need to have a little heart to heart today…
Not one single person participated in last weeks Tricky Trivia!
I know the question wasn’t too difficult because it was a true/false question. So, what’s going on out there? I’m hoping it’s because you’re all having SO MUCH FUN this summer that you don’t have one spare second in the day to check our blog, but I know that’s not true because we’re tracking regular visitors on our blog each week. So… what’s up?
In hoping to better serve you, our most loyal readers, I’m going to ask for some honest feedback from you:
What can we be doing differently on our blog that will generate more participation from you? What would you like to read more about? What kind of contests would you like to participate in, if any? When you visit our blog, what do you hope to find? More training? Different prizes? Certification updates? Techie news?
By answering these questions and/or giving us your thoughts, you’ll not only be eligible to win this week’s prize, but you’ll also be helping our blog team immensely! We blog for YOU… so, what do YOU want from us?
As always here are the rules for Tricky Trivia…
Answer the question in the comments to be eligible to win . Once you’ve submitted the answer in your comment, we’ll have a drawing and randomly pick a winner. The winner, who will be contacted via email by a LearnKey staff member, will be posted next Thursday, along with a new trivia question for the week.
This week’s prize: LearnKey branded flash drive
Contest run time: Thursday July 22nd- Wednesday July 28th
Winner posted: Thursday July 29th
* Only North American residents are eligible to win prize *
*In order to receive prize notification, you must provide a valid email address with your comment*
Working with Web Pages and Sites: Web Slices
In this clip you’ll learn more about the Web Slices tool in Internet Explorer 8 and how to add them to your favorites bar.
Working with Web Pages and Sites: Newsreaders/Feed Directories
Expert Ammon Wiese explains how you can utilize newsreaders and feed directories if you’re moving around from one computer to another.
MTA Certification
MCTS, MCITP, MCSE and now MTA! This is just too much! I’m so confused. Where do I start?
MTA, Microsoft Technology Associate is now the first step in becoming certified on Microsoft Software. The MTA designation identifies you as someone who has fundamental knowledge in Microsoft technology. In Microsoft’s opinion, earning the MTA certification in one of the technology areas; Server Administration, Network, Security, Software Development, Windows Development, Web Development and Database Administration; will help you stand out when you apply to a college or technology internship. In my opinion, this is Microsoft’s way of competing with other certification vendors of foundation level certifications like CompTIA and CIW for your business. Either way you look at it, an MTA is a great place to go if you are just starting out on your certification journey. Each of the 7 MTA certifications cover a specific set of principles and standards that when learned and mastered will give you a great advantage when applying for a technology based career or moving up the certification ladder.
“The nice thing about LearnKey’s Server Administration Fundamentals course is it really fills a big gap in the Microsoft certifications. Microsoft’s MCTS certifications just kind of throw you in there. And they assume that you understand the basics of using a windows system at all much less s Windows server and you know how to get around and how to work with things like the Microsoft Management Console and Server Manager and so forth. And they just trust you to get in there and learn the new stuff just for that specific MCTS exam. The MTA starts you at the beginning and helps you understand these concepts from the very beginning. So it’s a great place to start for those individuals that are new to the industry”
– Tom Carpenter, SYSEDCO.com
Post written by Ammon Wiese- Learnkey’s Instructional Design Manager