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<h3><b>Python training course description</b></h3>
      <p> This Python course focusses on teaching Python for
use in network automation and network DevOps. We
focus on getting delegates up and running with Python
and network automation as quickly as possible rather
than making them great programmers. In other words
we concentrate on enabling delegates to use network
automation libraries such as netmiko, NAPALM and
Nornir, and APIs such as NETCONF and RESTCONF
rather than enabling delegates to produce object
oriented programs. Hands on sessions use Cisco and
Juniper devices.</p>
        
				<h5><b>What will you learn</b></h5>
				<ul>
				 
   <li>Run Python programs.</li>
																				<li>Read Python programs.</li>
																				<li>Write Python programs.</li>
																				<li>Debug Python programs.</li>
																				<li>Automate network tasks with Python programs.</li>
                    <li>Configure network devices with Python.</li>
                    <li>Collect data from network devices with Python.</li>
                  </ul>
        <h5>
        <b>Python training course details</b> </h5>
				<div>
					<div>
						<ul>
							<li><b> Who will benefit:</b> </li>
							
              <p>Network engineers.</p>
              
							<li><b>Prerequisites:</b></li>
							
              <p>TCP/IP Foundation</p>
              
							<li><b>Duration</b></li>
							
              <p>5 days
						</p>
              
							
              
              
						</ul>
					</div>
				</div>
      <h3><b>Python training course contents</b></h3>
      <ul>
				<li>What is Python? 	</li><p>
Programming languages, Why Python? Python in interactive mode, Python scripts, ipython, Python version 2 versus version 3. A simple Python script. Comments.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Installing Python, Hello world.
</p><li>A network example	 </li><p>
On box vs off box Python. telnet, ssh, NETCONF, HTTP, APIs, manufacturers and API support, analysis of a simple telnetlib program.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Using Python to retrieve the configuration from a network device. Using wireshark to analyse the actions.

</p><li>Python basics </li><p>
I/O, operators, variables and assignment, types, indentation, loops and conditionals.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Modifying the telnet program, changing configurations on a network devices.

</p><li>Functions, classes and methods </li><p>
What are functions, calling functions, builtin functions, useful builtin functions, file handling, classes, objects, creating instances.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Storing configurations in files, configuring devices from files, using an inventory file to work on multiple devices.

</p><li>Libraries and modules </li><p>
Modules, files and packages, import, from-import, Python standard library, other packages, pip install, executing other programs. Managing python libraries.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Using pip, installing and using ipaddress, subprocess to access netsnmp. For the more advanced, using the sockets library.

</p><li>Paramiko and netmiko </li><p>
SSH, enabling SSH on devices, keys. Paramiko versus netmiko, example scripts. pexpect.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Configuring VLANs from Python.

	</p><li>pySNMP </li><p>
Gathering facts using previous methods, SNMP review, pySNMP GET, pySNMP and SNMPv3. easySNMP library.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Walking a MIB from Python.

</p><li>NETCONF </li><p>
What is NETCONF? Enabling NETCONF on devices, A first ncclient script, device handlers, get_config, edit_config, copy_config, delete_config, commit, validate, pyEZ, utils_config, utils.sw.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Configuration using ncclient and PyEZ. This session is expanded for those interesting in JunOS automation.

</p><li>Manipulating configuration files </li><p>
Builtin functions, string handling. Unicode. Sequences, strings, lists, tuples. Dictionaries. TextFSM. Regular expressions. JSON, YAML, XML, YANG, Jinja2, templates.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Jinja2 templating with Python to configure network devices.

</p><li>NAPALM </li><p>
Getters, configuration operations, supported devices, NAPALM transport, Config-replace, Config-merge, Compare config, Atomic changes, rollback. Example NAPLAM scripts.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Using NAPALM to gather facts, Using NAPALM for configuration management

</p><li>REST and RESTCONF </li><p>
What is REST, HTTP methods, GET, POST, cURL, Postman, Python requests library. RESTCONF, a RESTCONF example.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Modifying a configuration using RESTCONF.

</p><li>Scapy </li><p>
What is scapy, Scapy in interactive mode, Scapy as a module.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Packet crafting from Python.

</p><li>Warning </li><p>
Errors and exceptions, Exception handling, try, except. Memory management. Garbage collection. Context management, With.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Improving Python code.
		  
		  </p><li>Nornir </li><p>
What is Nornir? A network automation framework,
inventories, connection management and parallelization.
Nornir architecture and other libraires. 
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Setting
up nornir, nornir fact gathering, nornir tasks.

</p><li>Optional </li><p>
Writing your own functions, Writing your own classes. pyntc.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Writing reusable code.
</p>
      </ul>

Systems & Network Training

Network & Security

Network Engineer

Python for network engineers

General Admission

<h3><b>Total H.248 training course description</b></h3>
      <p> A course focusing purely on the H.248 protocol. Anyone working through the ITU standards documents can testify to the need of a training course to explain how H.248 really works. This course already assumes knowledge of other VoIP protocols and starts by positioning H.248 in relation to the other protocols. The course then looks at H.248 architectures and concepts before analysing H.248 messages and call flows. </p>
        
				<h5><b>What will you learn</b></h5>
				<ul>
				 
         <li>Describe what H.248 is</li>
              <li>Recognise where H.248 fits in relation to other VoIP protocols.</li>
              <li>Explain how H.248 works.</li>
              <li>Analyse H.248 packets</li>
                  </ul>
       
        <h5>
        <b>Total H.248 training course details</b> </h5>
				<div>
					<div>
						<ul>
							<li><b> Who will benefit:</b> </li>
							
              <p>Technical staff working with H.248 </p>
              
							<li><b>Prerequisites:</b></li>
							
              <p>Voice Over IP.</p>
              
							<li><b>Duration</b></li>
							
              <p>2 days
						</p>
              
							
              
              
						</ul>
					</div>
				</div>
      <h3><b>Total H.248 training course contents</b></h3>
      <ul>
				<li>What is H.248?</li><p> Review of VoIP protocols: RTP, RTCP, SIP, SDP, H.323. The PSTN and SS7. Where H.248 fits into the picture. H.248 history. MGCP. The IETF. Megaco. ITU standards. H.248v1, v2, v3. 
 
 
</p><li>H.248 architectures</li><p> Media Gateways, Media Gateway Controllers, Gateway Control functions, Signalling Gateways. Reference architectures: IMS/TISPAN: IBCF, IWF, I-BGF, SPDF. MSF: S-SBG-NC, D-SBG-NC. GSMA: IPX Proxy. Softswitches. 
 
 
</p><li>H.248 concepts</li><p> The connection model, terminations, streams, contexts. Termination properties: descriptors, context properties. Events, signals, packages. 
 
 
</p><li>H.248 messages</li><p> Protocol stack, UDP, TCP. Message structure. Transactions, actions, commands. Requests, replies, acknowledgements. Sample message flows. Binary encoding, ASN syntax, Text encoding. 
 
 
</p><li>H.248 commands</li><p> Termination manipulation: Add, Subtract, Move, Modify. Event reporting: Notify. Management: AuditCapability, AuditValue, ServiceChange. 
 
 
</p><li>H.248 Descriptors</li><p> What are descriptors? Relationship with messages and commands. Basic descriptors, Descriptors composed of other descriptors. The 19 descriptors. Defaults. 
 
 
</p><li>H.248 Transactions</li><p> Groups of commands, transaction Ids, relationship with actions and commands. Requests and replies. 
 
 
	</p><li>H.248 wrap up</li><p> What is a package? Basic packages. H.248 security. H.248 - SIP interoperation. H.248 interoperation with other protocols. 
 
</p>
      </ul>

Total H.248 for Engineers

<h3><b>Ansible training course description</b></h3>
      <p> The course focusses on the use of ansible for network
devices instead of its usual server use case. The
course progresses from the basics of ansible and
playbooks onto using network specific modules
including NAPALM. The use Jinja2 templating with
ansible is also studied. Hands on sessions with ansible
configuring routers and switches follow all major
sections.</p>
        
				<h5><b>What will you learn</b></h5>
				<ul>
				 
  <li>Automate tasks with ansible.</li>
					<li>Write ansible playbooks.</li>
					<li>Configure network devices with ansible.</li>
     	<li>Troubleshoot network devices with ansible.</li>
					<li>Use ansible network modules.</li>
     <li>Use jinja2 templates with ansible.</li>
                  </ul>
        <h5>
        <b>Ansible training course details</b> </h5>
				<div>
					<div>
						<ul>
							<li><b> Who will benefit:</b> </li>
							
              <p>Network engineers.</p>
              
							<li><b>Prerequisites:</b></li>
							
              <p>TCP/IP Foundation</p>
              
							<li><b>Duration</b></li>
							
              <p>2 days
						</p>
              
							
              
              
						</ul>
					</div>
				</div>
      <h3><b>Ansible training course contents</b></h3>
      <ul>
				<li>What is ansible? </li><p>
The language, the engine, the framework. Uses of ansible, orchestration. <br /><span>Hands on</span> Installing ansible, enabling SSH on network devices.

</p><li>Ansible architecture </li><p>
How ansible 'normally' works, Agentless, SSH, ansible and Python, modules, how ansible work on network devices, Configuration management, inventories, playbooks, modules, ansible.cfg.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Getting started, running ad hoc commands.

</p><li>Playbooks </li><p>
ansible-playbook, users, YAML, plays, tasks, modules. ansible-vault.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Running playbooks.

</p><li>More playbooks </li><p>
Handlers, variables, environmental variables, playbook variables, inventory variables, variable scope and precedence, accessing variables, facts, ansible vault. Conditionals, wait_for.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Using variables and conditions in playbooks.

</p><li>Inventories </li><p>
	/etc/ansible/hosts, inventory variables, static inventories, dynamic inventories.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Inventories and variables.

</p><li>Ansible network modules </li><p>
Built in modules, custom modules, return values. ansible-doc -l. connection: local, Cisco modules, Juniper module, 
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Using modules for your network devices.

</p><li>Ansible templatings  </li><p>
	The template module, the assemble module, jinja2 templates, for, if else.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Configuring network devices from templates.

</p><li>Roles and includes </li><p>
Dynamic includes, Handler includes, playbook includes. Roles, role parts: handlers, files, templates, cross platform roles, ansible galaxy.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> includes example, building roles.

</p><li>Ansible and NAPALM  </li><p>
	Installation, napalm-ansible, NAPALM modules: napalm_diff-yang, napalm_get_facts, napalm_install_config, napalm_parse_yang, napalm_ping, napalm_translate_yang, napalm_validate.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Using NAPALM modules in ansible.</p>
      </ul>

Ansible for network engineers

<h3><b>Network design training course description</b></h3>
        <p>  This course provides you with the knowledge needed to
perform the design of a network infrastructure that
supports desired network solutions to achieve effective
performance, scalability, and availability. We recognise
that the role of design does not normally require hands
on skills but hands on sessions are used to reinforce the
theory not to teach configuration or troubleshooting.</p>
        
				<h5><b>What will you learn</b></h5>
				<ul>
				 
         <li>Create HA enterprise network designs.</li>
                  <li>Develop optimum Layer 3 designs.</li>
                  <li>Design effective modern WAN and data center
networks.</li>
                  <li>Develop effective migration approaches to IPv6.</li>
                  <li>Create effective network security designs.</li>
               							 </ul>
        <h5>
        <b>Network design training course details</b> </h5>
				<div>
					<div>
						<ul>
							<li><b> Who will benefit:</b> </li>
							
              <p>Anyone involved with network design.</p>
              
							<li><b>Prerequisites:</b></li>
							
              <p>TCP/IP Foundation for engineers</p>
              
							<li><b>Duration</b></li>
							
              <p>5 days</p>
              
							
              
              
						</ul>
					</div>
				</div>
      <h3><b>Network design training course contents</b></h3>
      
				<h6><b>Part I Reliable, resilient enterprise L2/3 network design</b></h6>
         <b>Optimal Enterprise Campus Design:</b><br />Enterprise campus
				design principles, hierarchy, modularity, flexibility, resiliency.<br />
				<b>EIGRP design:</b> <br />EIGRP Design, Should you use EIGRP?<br />
				<b>OSPF design:</b><br /> OSPF scalability designs, OSPF area design,
OSPF Full-Mesh Design, OSPF Hub-and-Spoke Design, OSPF convergence design and optimization techniques.
				<br /><b>IS-IS Design:</b><br />The protocol, IS-IS hierarchical architecture,
IS-IS vs OSPF, IS-IS Deep Dive, IS-IS Design Considerations.
				<br /><b>BGP design:</b><br />BGP overview, Designing Scalable iBGP
Networks, BGP Route Reflector Design, Enhancing the Design
of BGP Policies with BGP Communities, Case Study:
Designing Enterprise wide BGP Policies Using BGP
Communities, BGP Load-Sharing Design.<br />
<h6><b>Part II Enterprise IPv6 Design Considerations</b></h6>
				<b>IPv6 Design Considerations in the Enterprise:</b><br /> IPv6
Deployment and Design Considerations, Considerations for
Migration to IPv6 Design, IPv6 Transition Mechanisms, Final
Thoughts on IPv6 Transition Mechanisms.
				<br /><b>Challenges of the Transition to IPv6:</b><br /> IPv6 Services, Link
Layer Security Considerations.
		<h6><b>Part III Modern Enterprise Wide-Area Networks Design</b></h6>
		<b>Service Provider-Managed VPNs:</b> <br />Choosing Your WAN
Connection, Layer 3 MPLS VPNs, Case Study: MPLS VPN
Routing Propagation, Layer 2 MPLS VPN Services.
		<br /><b>Enterprise-Managed WANs:</b><br /> Enterprise-Managed VPNs,
GRE, Multipoint GRE, Point-to-Point and Multipoint GRE,
IPsec, IPsec and dynamic VTI, DMVPN, Case Study: EIGRP
DMVPN, DMVPN and Redundancy, Case Study: MPLS/VPN
over GRE/DMVPN, SSL VPN.
		<br /><b>Enterprise WAN Resiliency Design:</b><br /> WAN Remote-Site
Overview, MPLS L3 WAN Design Models, Common L2 WAN
Design Models, Common VPN WAN Design Models, 3G/4G
VPN Design Models, Remote Site Using Local Internet,
Remote-Site LAN, Case Study: Redundancy and Connectivity,
NGWAN, SDWAN, and IWAN Solution Overview, IWAN
Design Overview, Enterprise WAN and Access Management.
		
<h6><b>Part IV Enterprise Data Center Designs</b></h6>
		<b>Multitier Data Center Designs:</b><br /> Case Study: Small Data
Centers (Connecting Servers to an Enterprise LAN), Case
Study: Two-Tier Data Center Network Architecture, Case
Study: Three-Tier Data Center Network Architecture.<br />
		<b>Trends and Techniques to Design Modern Data Centers:</b><br />
The Need for a New Network Architecture, Limitations of
Current Networking Technology, Modern Data Center Design
Techniques and Architectures, Multitenant Data Center.
		<br /><b>SDN:</b> <br />SDN characteristics, How SDN addresses current
Networking Limitations, SDN Architecture Components, SDN
Network Virtualization overlays.
		<br /><b>Data Center Connections:</b><br />Data Center Traffic Flows, The
Need for DCI, IP Address Mobility, Case Study: Dark Fiber
DCI, Pseudowire DCI.
				<h6><b>Part V Design QoS for Optimized User Experience</b></h6>
	<b>QoS Overview:</b><br />QoS Overview, IntServ versus DiffServ,
Classification and Marking, Policers and Shapers, Policing
Tools: Single-Rate Three-Color Marker, Policing Tools: TwoRate Three-Color Marker, Queuing Tools, Dropping Tools.
	<b>QoS design principles and best practices:</b><br /> QoS overview,
classification and marking design principles, policing and
remarking design principles, queuing design principles,
dropping design principles, Per-Hop behavior queue design
principles, RFC 4594 QoS Recommendation, QoS Strategy
Models. Campus QoS, WAN QoS, Data Center QoS.<br />
	<b>MPLS VPN QoS Design:</b><br /> The Need for QoS in MPLS VPN,
Layer 2 Private WAN QoS Administration, Fully Meshed
MPLS VPN QoS Administration, MPLS DiffServ Tunneling
Modes, Sample MPLS VPN QoS Roles.
	<br /><b>IPsec VPN QoS Design:</b><br /> The Need for QoS in IPsec VPN,
VPN Use Cases and Their QoS Models, IPsec Refresher,
Encryption and Classification: Order of Operations, MTU
Considerations, DMVPN QoS Considerations.
	<h6><b>Part VI IP Multicast Design</b></h6>
	<b>Enterprise IP Multicast Design:</b><br /> How Does IP Multicast
Work? Multicast Protocols, Multicast Forwarding and RPF
Check, Multicast Protocol Basics, PIM-SM Overview, Multicast
Routing Table, Basic SSM Concepts, Bidirectional PIM. RP
discovery, Anycast RP Features, MSDP.
	<h6><b>Part VII Designing Optimum Enterprise Network Security</b></h6>
	<b>Designing Security Services and Infrastructure Protection</b><br />
Network Security Zoning, Designing Infrastructure Protection.<br />
	<b>Designing firewall &amp; IPS solutions:</b><br /> Firewall architectures,
virtualized firewalls. Case Study: Application Tier separation,
Case Study: Firewalls in a Data Center, Case Study: Firewall
High Availability, IPS Architectures, Case Study: Secure
Campus Edge Design (Internet and Extranet Connectivity).
<br /><b>IP Multicast Security:</b><br /> Multicast Security Challenges,
Multicast Network Security Considerations.
	<br /><b>Designing Network Access Control Solutions:</b><br />IEEE
802.1X, EAP, 802.1X supplicants, 802.1X phased
deployment, Case Study: Authorization Options.
	<h6><b>Part VIII Design scenarios</b></h6>
	<b>Design Case Studies:</b><br /> 1: Enterprise Connectivity, 2:
Enterprise BGP with Internet Connectivity, 3: IPv6, 4: Data
Center Connectivity, 5: Resilient Enterprise WAN, 6: Secure
Enterprise Network, 7: QoS in the Enterprise Network.

Network design

<h3><b>IP broadcast training course description</b></h3>
        <p>A current hot topic in recent years has been the provision of multimedia services over IP networks aka triple or quadruple play. This course investigates the characteristics of video transmission and then studies the impact on IP networks.</p>
        
				<h5><b>What will you learn</b></h5>
				<ul>
				 
         <li>Use Wireshark to analyse and troubleshoot TV streams.</li>
											<li>Describe techniques, which can be used in IP to provide low uniform delay.</li>
											<li>Evaluate IPTV technologies.</li>
											<li>Design data networks, which will support IPTV.</li>
                  </ul>
       
        <h5>
        <b>IP broadcast training course details</b> </h5>
				<div>
					<div>
						<ul>
							<li><b> Who will benefit:</b> </li>
							
              <p>Anyone working in broadcast. </p>
              
							<li><b>Prerequisites:</b></li>
							
              <p>TCP/IP foundation for engineers</p>
              
							<li><b>Duration</b></li>
							
              <p>3 days</p>
              
							
              
              
						</ul>
					</div>
				</div>
      <h3><b>IP broadcast training course contents</b></h3>
      <ul>
				<li>What is IPTV?</li><p>
What is IP? What is TV? Pixels, frames, colour,
digital modulation, digital video broadcasting.
SDTV, HDTV, 4K. IPTV architectures,
Contribution, distribution, delivery. IPTV
standards. <br /><span>Hands on</span> Base IP connectivity, VLC.
</p><li>IPTV protocol stacks</li><p>
IP, TCP, UDP, RTP. IPv6. HTTP. Bandwidth
requirements. <br /><span>Hands on</span> IPTV bandwidth
calculations.
</p><li>Video codecs</li><p>
What is a CODEC, pictures and audio, digitisation,
sampling, quantisation, encoding, compressing.
MPEG, bit rates, resolution. I, B, P frames, GOP.
MPEG 2, MPEG 4, H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Analysing MPEG frames.
</p><li>IP issues</li><p>
Quality vs. bandwidth. Bandwidth, delay, latency,
jitter, signalling. Routers. <br /><span>Hands on</span> Analysing
jitter and other performance issues.
</p><li>IPTV performance and QoS</li><p>
IP DSCP field, queuing strategies; FIFO, WFQ,
custom, priority, RED. Differentiated services,
Diffserv. 802.1Q. Traffic shaping. QoE. <br /><span>Hands on</span>
best effort versus prioritisation.
</p><li>UDP versus TCP</li><p>
Reliable, unreliable, connection oriented,
connectionless. Broadcasts, multicasts and
unicasts. TCP flow control, TCP and
performance. <br /><span>Hands on</span> TCP window sizes.
</p><li>RTP</li><p>
RTP, ports, mixers, translators, RTCP, SMPTE,
FEC. <br /><span>Hands on</span> RTP analysis with Wireshark.
</p><li>Multicasting</li><p>
Multicasting compared to unicasting and
broadcasting, when to use and when not to use
multicasting. IGMP, PIM-SM, SSM. MLD. <br /><span>Hands on</span> Analysing multicast streams.
</p><li>OTT TV</li><p>
HTTP, HTTPS, Chunked HTTP. Adaptive
streaming. HTML5. DASH vs HLS. <br /><span>Hands on</span>
Analysing HTTP streams.
</p><li>Security</li><p>
Firewalls, TLS, DRM, watermarking. Encryption.
Geolocation. VPNs.
</p><li>IPTV architecture and other protocols</li><p>
Content providers, Service providers, delivery
networks, home networks. Caching, Service
discovery. RTSP. SAP, SDP. DHCP, DNS, NTP  </p>
      </ul>

IP broadcast fundamentals

<h3><b>IPTV training course description</b></h3>
   <p>A current hot topic in recent years has been the provision of multimedia services over IP networks aka triple or quadruple play. This course investigates the characteristics of video transmission and then studies the impact on IP networks.</p>
        
				<h5><b>What will you learn</b></h5>
				<ul>
				 
        <li>Use Wireshark to analyse and troubleshoot TV streams.</li>
					<li>Describe techniques, which can be used in IP to provide low uniform delay. </li> 
					<li>Evaluate IPTV technologies.</li>
					<li>Design data networks, which will support IPTV.</li>
                  </ul>
        <h5><b>IPTV training course details</b> </h5>
				<div>
					<div>
						<ul>
							<li><b> Who will benefit:</b> </li>
							
              <p>Anyone working with IPTV. </p>
              
							<li><b>Prerequisites:</b></li>
							
              <p>TCP/IP Foundation for engineers
							<br />Intro to data communications &amp; networking.</p>
              
							<li><b>Duration</b></li>
							
              <p>3 days</p>
              
							
              
              
						</ul>
					</div>
				</div>
      <h3><b>IPTV training course contents</b></h3>
				<ul>	<li>What is IPTV?</li><p>
What is IP? What is TV? Pixels, frames, colour,
digital modulation, digital video broadcasting.
SDTV, HDTV, 4K. IPTV architectures,
Contribution, distribution, delivery. IPTV
standards. <br /><span>Hands on</span> Base IP connectivity, VLC.
</p><li>IPTV protocol stacks</li><p>
IP, TCP, UDP, RTP. IPv6. HTTP. Bandwidth
requirements. <br /><span>Hands on</span> IPTV bandwidth
calculations.
</p><li>Video codecs</li><p>
What is a CODEC, pictures and audio, digitisation,
sampling, quantisation, encoding, compressing.
MPEG, bit rates, resolution. I, B, P frames, GOP.
MPEG 2, MPEG 4, H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1.
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Analysing MPEG frames.
</p><li>IP issues</li><p>
Quality vs. bandwidth. Bandwidth, delay, latency,
jitter, signalling. Routers. <br /><span>Hands on</span> Analysing
jitter and other performance issues.
</p><li>IPTV performance and QoS</li><p>
IP DSCP field, queuing strategies; FIFO, WFQ,
custom, priority, RED. Differentiated services,
Diffserv. 802.1Q. Traffic shaping. QoE. <br /><span>Hands on</span>
best effort versus prioritisation.
</p><li>UDP versus TCP</li><p>
Reliable, unreliable, connection oriented,
connectionless. Broadcasts, multicasts and
unicasts. TCP flow control, TCP and
performance. <br /><span>Hands on</span> TCP window sizes.
</p><li>RTP</li><p>
RTP, ports, mixers, translators, RTCP, SMPTE,
FEC. <br /><span>Hands on</span> RTP analysis with Wireshark.
</p><li>Multicasting</li><p>
Multicasting compared to unicasting and
broadcasting, when to use and when not to use
multicasting. IGMP, PIM-SM, SSM. MLD. <br /><span>Hands on</span> Analysing multicast streams.
</p><li>OTT TV</li><p>
HTTP, HTTPS, Chunked HTTP. Adaptive
streaming. HTML5. DASH vs HLS. <br /><span>Hands on</span>
Analysing HTTP streams.
</p><li>Security</li><p>
Firewalls, TLS, DRM, watermarking. Encryption.
Geolocation. VPNs.
</p><li>IPTV architecture and other protocols</li><p>
Content providers, Service providers, delivery
networks, home networks. Caching, Service
discovery. RTSP. SAP, SDP. DHCP, DNS, NTP
<br /><span>Hands on</span> Fixing the network. 

</p>
				</ul>

Total IPTV for engineers

<h3><b>LTE Architecture and Protocols course description</b></h3>
      <p> This course provides a comprehensive tour of the LTE
architecture along with services provided and the
protocols used.</p>
        
				<h5><b>What will you learn</b></h5>
				<ul>
				 
			
                  <li>Describe the overall architecture of LTE.</li>
																				<li>Explain the information flows through LTE.</li>
                    <li>Describe the LTE security.</li>
                    <li>Describe LTE mobility management.</li> 
                    <li>Recognise the next steps for LTE.</li>
                  </ul>
        <h5>
        <b>LTE Architecture and Protocols course details</b> </h5>
				<div>
					<div>
						<ul>
							<li><b> Who will benefit:</b> </li>
							
              <p>Anyone working with LTE.</p>
              
							<li><b>Prerequisites:</b></li>
							
              <p>Mobile communications demystified
							</p>
              
							<li><b>Duration</b></li>
							
              <p>3 days
						</p>
              
							
              
              
						</ul>
					</div>
				</div>
      <h3><b>LTE Architecture and Protocols course contents</b></h3>
      <ul>
				<li>Introduction </li><p>
History, LTE key features. The 4G ITU process. The LTE 3GPP specifications. Specifications.

</p><li>System Architecture </li><p>
LTE hardware architecture. UE architecture and capabilities. E-UTRAN and eNB. EPC, MME functions, SGW, PGW and PCRF. System interfaces and protocol stacks. Example information flows. Dedicated and default bearers. EMM, ECM, RRC state diagrams.

</p><li>Radio transmission and reception </li><p>
OFDMA, SC-FDMA, MIMO antennas. Air interface protocol stack. Logical, transport and physical channels. Frame and slot structure, the resource grid. Resource element mapping of the physical channels and signals. Cell acquisition, data transmission and random access. MAC, RLC, PDCP protocols. LTE spectrum allocation.

</p><li>Power-on procedures </li><p>
Network and cell selection. RRC connection establishment. Attach procedure, including IP address allocation and default bearer activation. LTE detach procedure.

</p><li>Security in LTE networks </li><p>
LTE security features, identity confidentiality, ciphering and integrity protection. Architecture of network access security in LTE. Secure key hierarchy. Authentication and key agreement procedure. Security mode command procedure. Network domain security architecture. Security associations using IKE and IPSec.

</p><li>Mobility management </li><p>
RRC_IDLE, RRC_CONNECTED. Cell reselection, tracking area updates. Measurement reporting. X2 and S1 based handovers. Interoperation with UMTS, GSM and non-3GPP technologies such as cdma2000.

</p><li>QoS, policy control and charging </li><p>
QoS in LTE, EPS bearers, service data flows and packet flows. The architecture and signalling procedures for policy and charging control. Data transport using GPRS, differentiated services and MPLS. Offline and online charging in LTE.

</p><li>Delivery of voice and text messages over LTE </li><p>
Difficulties and solutions for Voice over LTE. Architecture and call setup procedures for circuit switched fallback. Architecture, protocols and call setup procedures in IP multimedia subsystem.

</p><li>Enhancements in release 9 </li><p>
LTE location services. Multimedia broadcast / multicast service and MBSFN. Cell selection, commercial mobile alert service.

</p><li>LTE Advanced and release 10 </li><p>
Impact of carrier aggregation on LTE air interface. Enhanced MIMO processing on uplink and downlink. Relaying. Release 11 and beyond.

</p><li>OAM and self organising networks </li><p>
Operation, administration, maintenance and provisioning for LTE. Self-configuration of base station parameters. Fractional frequency re-use, inter-cell interference co-ordination. Self-optimisation of base station procedures. Self-healing to detect and recover from faults.</p>
      </ul>

LTE Architecture and Protocols

<h3><b>Network+ training course description</b></h3>
        <p>This network+ course covers the TCP/IP side of the
exam. For delegates to pass the exam it is important
that they meet the prerequisites, self study is also
required. An intensive hands on IP foundation. The
course focuses on all parts of TCP/IP including layers 4
to 7 on end stations as well as layer 3 on routers. The
TCP/IP protocols are also studied to enable delegates
to be able to troubleshoot TCP/IP using Wireshark.
Hands on sessions are used to reinforce the theory
rather than teach specific manufacturer equipment.
 </p>
        
				<h5><b>What will you learn</b></h5>
				<ul>
				 
        <li>Use ping, traceroute and other tools to diagnose
          faults on a network.</li>
        <li>Configure IP on PCs and routers.</li>
        <li>Plan IP addresses and subnets.</li>
        <li>Analyse IP and TCP packets using an analyser.</li>
        <li>Troubleshoot TCP/IP.</li>
        </ul>
        <h5>
        <b>Network+ training course details</b> </h5>
				<div>
					<div>
						<ul>
							<li><b> Who will benefit:</b> </li>
							
              <p>Those wishing to pass the Network+ exam.</p>
              
							<li><b>Prerequisites:</b></li>
							
              <p>Introduction to data communications &amp; networking</p>
              
							<li><b>Duration</b></li>
							
              <p>5 days</p>
              
							
              
              
						</ul>
					</div>
				</div>
      <h3><b>Network+ training course contents</b></h3>
      <ul>
        <li>What is TCP/IP?</li>
        <p> TCP and IP are protocols, 7 layer model, network
          layers, hardware/software layers, internetworking,
          protocols, What is IP? What is TCP? The internet,
          The IAB, RFCs.</p>
        <li> Ping and Wireshark</li>
        <p> Host configuration, IP addresses, subnet masks,
          default gateways, ping. <br />
          <span>Hands on </span>Base configuration. Testing
          with ping. Analysing packets with Wireshark. </p>
        <li>Switches and Wireshark</li>
        <p> Switches versus hubs, layer 2 forwarding table,
          flooding, broadcasts.<br />
          <span>Hands on</span> Building a
          switched based network. </p>
        <li>Configuring network devices</li>
        <p> Configuration options, console port, putty, telnet. <br />
          <span>Hands on</span> Configuring switches, telnet. </p>
        <li>IP</li>
        <p> IP packet format, protocol field, TTL, DiffServ,
          fragments, ICMP. <br />
          <span>Hands on</span> IP packet analysis. </p>
        <li>IP addressing</li>
        <p> 32 bits, dotted decimal, rules, networks, role of
          subnet masks, simple subnetting, prefix notation.
          Broadcasts, special use addresses. <br />
          <span>Hands on</span> Planning and implementing addressing. </p>
        <li>IP and the lower layers</li>
        <p> ARP, media not supporting ARP. <br />
          <span>Hands on</span> ARP. </p>
        <li>Routing</li>
        <p> What are routers? What routers do, default
          gateways, routing and addressing, routing tables,
          ways to update routing tables. <br />
          <span>Hands on</span> Building
          a routed network, traceroute. </p>
        <li>Routing protocols</li>
        <p> IGPs and EGPs, RIP, RIPv2, Why not to use RIP,
          OSPF, OSPF metrics, convergence, distance
          vector protocols, link state protocols. <br />
          <span>Hands on</span> OSPF, analysing routing tables, loopbacks. </p>
        <li>Network simulators</li>
        <p> Network simulators, EVE-NG, GNS3, CML. <br />
          <span>Hands on</span> Using EVE-NG. </p>
        <li>Subnetting</li>
        <p> Subnetting to the bit level, ranges, how prefixes
          are used. <br />
          <span>Hands on</span> Subnetting. </p>
        <li>VLANS and IP addressing</li>
        <p> What are VLANs, tagging, 802.1Q, Inter VLAN
          routing. <br />
          <span>Hands on</span> Inter VLAN routing. </p>
        <li>TCP and UDP</li>
        <p> Layer 4, port numbers, client ports, broadcasts
          multicasts and layer 4, UDP header, TCP header,
          connections, ACK, sliding windows, options,
          connection states. Sockets. <br />
          <span>Hands on</span> Analysing
          TCP packets. </p>
        <li>IPv4 address configuration</li>
        <p> Private addresses, NAT, NAPT, dynamic
          addressing, DHCP, link local addresses. <br />
          <span>Hands on</span> DHCP, NAT. </p>
        <li>IPv6</li>
        <p> What is IPv6, 128 bit addresses, address formats,
          IPv6 address allocation, header format, migration,
          dual stack, tunnelling, NAT64, DNS64. <br />
          <span>Hands on</span> IPv6 setup troubleshooting. </p>
        <li>IPv6 address configuration</li>
        <p> Static addressing, EUI-64 addresses, IPv6
          address order, SLAAC, DHCPv6. <br />
          <span>Hands on</span> SLAAC. </p>
        <li>Applications</li>
        <p> Clients, servers, HTTP, Email, resource sharing,
          VoIP, video, terminal emulation, remote desktop.
          Network management and SNMP.<br />
          <span>Hands on</span> Servers, TFTP, VoIP packet analysis. </p>
        <li>DNS</li>
        <p> Names and addresses, hosts file, how DNS
          works. FQDNs, DNS client configuration. <br />
          <span>Hands on</span> Troubleshooting DNS. </p>
        <li>Security</li>
        <p> Firewalls, firewall architectures, DMZ, how
          firewalls work, proxy servers, filtering, ACLs, IDS,
          VPNs, authentication, encryption, tunnels, secure
          protocols. <br />
          <span>Hands on</span> Firewalls, SSH </p>
        <li>Troubleshooting</li>
        <p> Methods, tools. Using the 7 layer model.
          Troubleshooting toolkits. <br />
          <span>Hands on</span> Fixing the
          network. </p>
      </ul>

Network +

<h3><b>WiMax training course description</b></h3>
        <p>Broadband wireless access is an emerging technology area. This course looks at WiMAX, where it can be used, how it works and the alternative technologies.</p>
        
				<h5><b>What will you learn</b></h5>
				<ul>
				 
           <li>Describe WiMAX.</li>
					<li>Explain how WiMAX works.</li>
					<li>Compare and contrast WiMAX with alternative broadband wireless access technologies. </li>
                  </ul>
     
        <h5>
        <b>WiMax training course details</b> </h5>
				<div>
					<div>
						<ul>
							<li><b> Who will benefit:</b> </li>
							
              <p>Anyone wishing to know more about WiMAX.</p>
              
							<li><b>Prerequisites:</b></li>
							
              <p>
                None.</p>
              
							<li><b>Duration</b></li>
							
              <p>2 days</p>
              
							
              
              
						</ul>
					</div>
				</div>
      <h3><b>WiMax training course contents</b></h3>
      <ul>
				<li>Introduction</li><p>
What is WiMAX? WiMAX applications, The
Internet, Internet access choices, wireless
broadband access, WiMAX benefits.
				</p><li>WiMAX overview</li><p>
Spectrums, LOS vs. non-LOS, bit rates,
modulation, mobility, channel bandwidth, cell
radius.
</p><li>WiMAX standards</li><p>
The WiMAX forum, IEEE, ETSI, HIPERACCESS,
HIPERMAN, 802.16, 802.16-2004, 802.16a,
802.16e, 802.16f.
</p><li>WiMAX architecture</li><p>
Subscriber Stations (SS), Indoors, outdoors,
antennas, Radio Base Stations (BS), LOS, Non
LOS BackHaul, Point to multipoint, mesh support.
</p><li>Physical layer</li><p>
10 - 66GHz, TDMA, TDD, FDD, 2 -11 GHz, SC2,
OFDM, OFDMA, QPSK, QAM, Radio Link Control
(RLC), uplink, downlink.
</p><li>MAC layer</li><p>
Traffic types (continuous, bursty), QoS, service
types. MAC operations, connection oriented,
frame structure, addressing. Convergence
sublayers, service specific, common part, profiles
(IP, ATM). Bandwidth request-grant, ARQ,
Management messages.
</p><li>Security</li><p>
MAC privacy sublayer, network access
authentication, AAA, 802.1x, key exchange and
privacy.
</p><li>WiMAX alternatives</li><p>
				WiMAX vs. 3G, WiMAX vs. 802.20.</p>

      </ul>

Essential WiMax

<h3><b>SS7 training course description</b></h3>
      <p>  An Introduction to Signalling System No 7. Covering the terminology, technology and topology of the Core Signalling System. </p>
        
				<h5><b>What will you learn</b></h5>
				<ul>
				 
    <li>Describe the evolution of SS7.</li>
					<li>Identify the component parts of SS7.  </li>
                    <li>Describe the basic method of operation of SS7. </li>
                    <li>Describe a basic call set-up and clear within SS7.</li>
                  </ul>
        <h5>
        <b>SS7 training course details</b> </h5>
				<div>
					<div>
						<ul>
							<li><b> Who will benefit:</b> </li>
							
              <p>Network/Systems engineers<br />Operators/Planners.</p>
              
							<li><b>Prerequisites:</b></li>
							
              <p>Telecommunications Introduction</p>
              
							<li><b>Duration</b></li>
							
              <p>2 days
						</p>
              
							
              
              
						</ul>
					</div>
				</div>
      <h3><b>SS7 training course contents</b></h3>
      <ul>
				<li>Introduction 	</li><p>
Digital Signalling, CAS, CAS Applications, CCS,
Layer 1, Layer 2 (HDLC), Layer 3, Evolution of
SS7, Common SS7 functions.
</p><li>Physical Functionality </li><p>
SS7 Topology, Service Switching Point (SSP),
Signalling Transfer Point (STP), Service Control
Point (SCP), Database Types, CMSDB, NP, LIDB,
HLR, VLR, Signalling Modes, Link Types, Further
Redundancy, Linksets, Signalling Routes.
</p><li>Addressing </li><p>
Addressing in SS7, E.164, ANSI PCs, ITU-T
(CCITT) PCs, Connecting Networks (ISPs/NSPs).
</p><li>Message Transfer Part </li><p>
SS7 Protocol Stack, MTP Level 1, MTP Level 2,
Signalling Units, Flow Control, Fill In Signalling Unit
(FISU), Link Status Signalling Unit (LSSU),
Message Signalling Unit (MSU), MTP Level 3.
</p><li>Application and User Parts </li><p>
Signalling Connection Control Part (SCCP),
Transaction Capabilities Application Part (TCAP),
Telephone User Part, BTUP, ISDN User Part
(ISUP), ISUP - Supplementary Services, ISUP -
Call, Call Set-up over SS7.
</p><li>The Intelligent Network </li><p>
Function of IN, Evolution of IN, Conceptual Model,
Target Services and Service Features,
				Independent Building Blocks. </p>
      </ul>

Essential SS7

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On a Sunday close to the New Moon each lunar cycle, I'm offering space for us to gather and for you to reconnect with your intuitive guidence in gentle restorative community. This space is for you if
You're longing for spaciousness
Your whole system would appreciate the sense of a deep opening sigh
You know somewhere calling from within that Self Care has to be a priority
You are curious about learning intuitive creative practice that can restore a sense of balance, inner calm, and a sense of renewed capacity to play your part in life unfolding.
You'd welcome an hour on a Sunday of relaxing restorative connection.

You will have a series of invitations to 
Be with your breath in ways that make you feel powerfully connected to yourself and your lifeforce.
Come to know yourself as three centred: full of instinctual knowing, heart connections, and an open curious mind.
Connect with imagery that speaks deeply to how you are feeling, and learn the wisdom it has to share with you.
Explore photos you have taken in your own square mile of location to experience a deeper sense of belonging to place.
Journal to find new ways of expressing ideas that emerge in these session.
Meet others on a journey of self-discovery

If this appeals, I very much look forward to seeing you !


Dates and themes:
Sunday 10th March - Emergence -Being with your lifeforce
Sunday 7th April - Mandala -Healing patterns in nature 
Sunday 12th May - Belonging - Witnessing Trees
Sunday 9th June - A quiet inner voice - encircling an image
Sunday 7th July - encounters and initiations - equanimity
Sunday 4th August - finding non attachment
Sunday 1st September -follow the sun
Sunday 6th October - surrender to the holy plan!
Sunday 3rd November  - return to the innocence







The Soul Shed

Time and space  for you to reconnect with your intuitive guidence in gentle restorative community.


Sunday Openings at The Soul Shed

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She is looking for novels that demand to be talked about and shared, whatever their genre, and that she is still thinking about days after finishing.&nbsp;</p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">She is on the hunt for a high-concept thriller which is character and plot driven, but also has a discussable issue at its heart i.e Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey and Girl A by Abigail Dean. She love thrillers where the location is as integral to the plot as the crime i.e The Dry by Jane Harper and The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse, and would love a good locked-room thriller but is only looking for fresh and unique ideas in this area.&nbsp;</p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">She is also on the hunt for a glorious book club love story that is doing something a bit different and special i.e Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus or anything by Taylor Jenkins Reid or Liane Moriarty! Or smart, contemporary, observant romcoms with a very strong emphasis on diverse / own voices.&nbsp;</p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Finally, she would love a historical that vividly brings that period to life as well as having a stunning plot i.e, The Familiars by Stacey Halls and The Doll Factory by Elizabeth MacNeal.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Amanda would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 page synopsis and the opening three chapters (max 5,000 words).</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">(<em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">In addition to the paid sessions, Amanda is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email <a href="mailto:agent121@iaminprint.co.uk" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size);" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto;">agent121@iaminprint.co.uk</a> to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">discretion of&nbsp;</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print)</em>.&nbsp;</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Pr</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">int</em> prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> by the stated submission deadline and note that <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The submission deadline is: Wednesday 25 September 2024</strong></p>

LOOKING FOR: ADULT FICTION, NON-FICTION
Amanda Preston has been a literary agent for over 20 years and co-founded LBA in 2005. She won the RNA Literary Agent of the Year award in 2018. 
She represents commercial and reading group fiction, as well as a range of narrative non-fiction and memoir. She loves working with authors, championing them every step of the way, and works with them and their publishing teams to build them into brand names and award winning and bestselling authors in the UK and internationally. Whether commercial or reading-group, she loves innovative and well-written stories that hook her in from the start and whose voice stays with her. She is looking for novels that demand to be talked about and shared, whatever their genre, and that she is still thinking about days after finishing. 
She is on the hunt for a high-concept thriller which is character and plot driven, but also has a discussable issue at its heart i.e Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey and Girl A by Abigail Dean. She love thrillers where the location is as integral to the plot as the crime i.e The Dry by Jane Harper and The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse, and would love a good locked-room thriller but is only looking for fresh and unique ideas in this area. 
She is also on the hunt for a glorious book club love story that is doing something a bit different and special i.e Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus or anything by Taylor Jenkins Reid or Liane Moriarty! Or smart, contemporary, observant romcoms with a very strong emphasis on diverse / own voices. 
Finally, she would love a historical that vividly brings that period to life as well as having a stunning plot i.e, The Familiars by Stacey Halls and The Doll Factory by Elizabeth MacNeal.
Amanda would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 page synopsis and the opening three chapters (max 5,000 words).
(In addition to the paid sessions, Amanda is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email agent121@iaminprint.co.uk to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the discretion of I Am In Print). 
By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with I Am In Print prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach I Am In Print by the stated submission deadline and note that I Am In Print take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.
The submission deadline is: Wednesday 25 September 2024

I Am In Print

Fiction Writing

SOLD OUT! 7th October Amanda Preston #Agent121. Looking for: ADULT FICTION

<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>5 Days</p><p>30 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p></p><p>This course is intended for IT Professionals who are already experienced in general Windows Server, Windows client, Azure, and Microsoft 365 administration, and who want to learn more about using Windows PowerShell for administration. No prior experience with any version of PowerShell or any scripting language is assumed. This course is also suitable for IT Professionals already experienced in server administration, including Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, and Microsoft SQL Server.</p><p></p><p></p><p>This course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use PowerShell for administering and automating administration of Windows servers. This course provides students the skills to identify and build the command they require to perform a specific task. In addition, students learn how to build scripts to accomplish advanced tasks such as automating repetitive tasks and generating reports. This course provides prerequisite skills supporting a broad range of Microsoft products, including Windows Server, Windows Client, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft 365. In keeping with that goal, this course will not focus on any one of those products, although Windows Server, which is the common platform for all of those products, will serve as the example for the techniques this course teaches.</p><p></p>Prerequisites<p>Before attending this course, students must have: </p><ul><li>-Experience with Windows networking technologies and implementation.</li> <li>- Experience with Windows Server administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.</li></ul><p></p></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h3>1 - Review Windows PowerShell</h3> <ul> <li>Learn about Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Get familiar with Windows PowerShell applications</li> <li>Identify factors to install and use Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Configure the Windows PowerShell console</li> <li>Configure the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE)</li> <li>Use Visual Studio Code with PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>2 - Understand the command syntax in Windows PowerShell</h3> <ul> <li>Discover the structure of PowerShell cmdlets</li> <li>Discover the parameters for using PowerShell cmdlets</li> <li>Review the tab completion feature in PowerShell</li> <li>Display the About files content in PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>3 - Find commands and Get-Help in Windows PowerShell</h3> <ul> <li>Define modules in PowerShell</li> <li>Find cmdlets in PowerShell</li> <li>Use command aliases in PowerShell</li> <li>Use Show-Command and Get-Help in PowerShell</li> <li>Interpret the help file contents and update the local help content in PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>4 - Manage Active Directory Domain Services using PowerShell cmdlets</h3> <ul> <li>Manage user accounts in PowerShell</li> <li>Manage groups and group memberships in PowerShell</li> <li>Manage computer accounts in PowerShell</li> <li>Manage organizational units and Active Directory objects in PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>5 - Manage network service settings for Windows devices using PowerShell cmdlets</h3> <ul> <li>Manage IP addresses in PowerShell</li> <li>Manage IP routing in PowerShell</li> <li>Manage DNS clients in PowerShell</li> <li>Manage Windows Firewall settings in PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>6 - Manage Windows Server settings using PowerShell cmdlets</h3> <ul> <li>Automate management tasks using the Group Policy management cmdlets</li> <li>Manage server roles and services using PowerShell cmdlets</li> <li>Manage Hyper-V Virtual Machines using PowerShell cmdlets</li> <li>Manage Internet Information Services using PowerShell cmdlets</li> </ul> <h3>7 - Manage settings for a local Windows machine using PowerShell cmdlets</h3> <ul> <li>Manage Windows 10 using PowerShell</li> <li>Manage permissions with PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>8 - Understand the Windows PowerShell pipeline</h3> <ul> <li>Review Windows PowerShell pipeline and its output</li> <li>Discover object members in PowerShell</li> <li>Control the formatting of pipeline output</li> </ul> <h3>9 - Select, sort, and measure objects using the pipeline</h3> <ul> <li>Sort and group objects by property in the pipeline</li> <li>Measure objects in the pipeline</li> <li>Select a set of objects in the pipeline</li> <li>Select object properties in the pipeline</li> <li>Create and format calculated properties in the pipeline</li> </ul> <h3>10 - Filter objects out of the pipeline</h3> <ul> <li>Learn about the comparison operators in PowerShell</li> <li>Review basic filter syntax in the pipeline</li> <li>Review advanced filter syntax in the pipeline</li> <li>Optimize the filter performance in the pipeline</li> </ul> <h3>11 - Enumerate objects in the pipeline</h3> <ul> <li>Learn about enumerations in the pipeline</li> <li>Review basic syntax to enumerate objects in the pipeline</li> <li>Review advanced syntax to enumerate objects in the pipeline</li> </ul> <h3>12 - Send and pass data as output from the pipeline</h3> <ul> <li>Write pipeline data to a file</li> <li>Convert pipeline objects to other forms of data representation in PowerShell</li> <li>Control additional output options in PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>13 - Pass pipeline objects</h3> <ul> <li>Pipeline parameter binding</li> <li>Identify ByValue parameters</li> <li>Pass data by using ByValue</li> <li>Pass data by using ByPropertyName</li> <li>Identify ByPropertyName parameters</li> <li>Use manual parameters to override the pipeline</li> <li>Use parenthetical commands</li> <li>Expand property values</li> </ul> <h3>14 - Connect with data stores using PowerShell providers</h3> <ul> <li>Define Windows PowerShell providers</li> <li>Review the built-in providers in PowerShell</li> <li>Access provider help in PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>15 - Use PowerShell drives in PowerShell</h3> <ul> <li>Explain PowerShell drives in PowerShell</li> <li>Use PowerShell drive cmdlets in PowerShell</li> <li>Manage the file system in PowerShell</li> <li>Manage the registry in PowerShell</li> <li>Work with certificates in PowerShell</li> <li>Work with other PowerShell drives in PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>16 - Review CIM and WMI</h3> <ul> <li>Review architecture of CIM and WMI</li> <li>Review repositories in CIM and WMI</li> <li>Locate online class documentation by using CIM and WMI cmdlets</li> </ul> <h3>17 - Query configuration information by using CIM and WMI</h3> <ul> <li>List local repository namespaces and classes by using CIM and WMI</li> <li>Query instances by using commands and WMI Query Language</li> <li>Connect to remote computers by using CIM and WMI cmdlets</li> <li>Query repository classes from remote computers by using CIMSession objects</li> </ul> <h3>18 - Query and manipulate repository objects by using CIM and WMI methods</h3> <ul> <li>Discover methods of repository objects by using CIM and WMI</li> <li>Locate class methods and documentation by using CIM and WMI</li> <li>Invoke methods of repository objects by using CIM and WMI</li> </ul> <h3>19 - Manage variables in Windows PowerShell scripts</h3> <ul> <li>Define variables in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Create variable names in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Assign values and types to variables in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Identify the methods and properties of variables in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Use string variables and methods in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Use date variables and methods in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> </ul> <h3>20 - Work with arrays and hash tables in Windows PowerShell scripts</h3> <ul> <li>Define an array in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Work with array lists in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Define hash tables in Windows PowerShell Scripts</li> <li>Work with hash tables in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> </ul> <h3>21 - Create and run scripts by using Windows PowerShell</h3> <ul> <li>Review Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Modify scripts in the PowerShell Gallery</li> <li>Create scripts using Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Review the PowerShellGet module in Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Run scripts and set the execution policy in Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Review Windows PowerShell and AppLocker</li> <li>Sign the scripts digitally in Windows PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>22 - Work with scripting constructs in Windows PowerShell</h3> <ul> <li>Review and use the ForEach loop in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Review and use the If construct in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Review and use the Switch construct in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Review the For construct in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Review other loop constructs in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Review Break and Continue in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> </ul> <h3>23 - Import data in different formats for use in scripts by using Windows PowerShell cmdlets</h3> <ul> <li>Use the Get-Content command in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Use the Import-Csv cmdlet in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Use the Import-Clixml cmdlet in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Use the ConvertFrom-Json cmdlet in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> </ul> <h3>24 - Use methods to accept user inputs in Windows PowerShell scripts</h3> <ul> <li>Identify values that might change in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Use the Read-Host cmdlet in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Use the Get-Credential cmdlet in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Use the Out-GridView cmdlet in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Pass parameters to a Windows PowerShell script</li> </ul> <h3>25 - Troubleshoot scripts and handle errors in Windows PowerShell</h3> <ul> <li>Interpret error messages generated for Windows PowerShell commands</li> <li>Add output to Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Use breakpoints in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Interpret error actions for Windows PowerShell commands</li> </ul> <h3>26 - Use functions and modules in Windows PowerShell scripts</h3> <ul> <li>Review functions in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Use variable scope in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Create modules in Windows PowerShell scripts</li> <li>Use the dot sourcing feature in Windows PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>27 - Manage single and multiple computers by using Windows PowerShell remoting</h3> <ul> <li>Review the remoting feature of Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Compare remoting with remote connectivity</li> <li>Review the remoting security feature of Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Enable remoting by using Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Use one-to-one remoting by using Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Use one-to-many remoting by using Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Compare remoting output with local output</li> </ul> <h3>28 - Use advanced Windows PowerShell remoting techniques</h3> <ul> <li>Review common remoting techniques of Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Send parameters to remote computers in Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Set access protection to variables, aliases, and functions by using the scope modifier</li> <li>Enable multi-hop remoting in Windows PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>29 - Manage persistent connections to remote computers by using Windows PowerShell sessions</h3> <ul> <li>Review persistent connections in Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Create and manage persistent PSSessions by using Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Disconnect PSSessions by using Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Review the feature of implicit remoting in Windows PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>30 - Review Azure PowerShell module</h3> <ul> <li>Review Azure PowerShell</li> <li>Review the benefits of the Azure PowerShell module</li> <li>Install the Azure PowerShell module</li> <li>Migrate Azure PowerShell from AzureRM to Azure</li> <li>Review Microsoft Azure Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell and Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph modules</li> </ul> <h3>31 - Review the features and tools for Azure Cloud Shell</h3> <ul> <li>Review the characteristics of Azure Cloud Shell</li> <li>Review the features and tools of Azure Cloud Shell</li> <li>Configure and experiment with Azure Cloud Shell</li> </ul> <h3>32 - Manage Azure resources with Windows PowerShell</h3> <ul> <li>Create a new Azure virtual machine by using Windows PowerShell commands</li> <li>Manage Azure virtual machines by using Windows PowerShell commands</li> <li>Manage Azure related storage by using Azure PowerShell</li> <li>Manage Azure subscriptions by using Azure PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>33 - Manage users, groups, and licenses in Microsoft Entra ID by using Windows PowerShell</h3> <ul> <li>Review benefits to manage Microsoft 365 services by using Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Connect to the Microsoft 365 tenant by using Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Manage users in Microsoft 365 by using Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Manage groups in Microsoft 365 by using Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Manage roles in Microsoft 365 by using Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Manage licenses in Microsoft 365 by using Windows PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>34 - Manage Exchange Online by using Windows PowerShell</h3> <ul> <li>Connect to Exchange Online by using Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Manage mailboxes in Exchange Online by using Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Manage resources in Exchange Online by using Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Manage admin roles in Exchange Online by using Windows PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>35 - Manage SharePoint Online by using Windows PowerShell</h3> <ul> <li>Install and connect to SharePoint Online Management Shell by using Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Manage SharePoint Online users and groups by using Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Manage SharePoint sites by using Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Manage SharePoint Online external user sharing by using Windows PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>36 - Manage Microsoft Teams by using Windows PowerShell</h3> <ul> <li>Review Microsoft Teams PowerShell module</li> <li>Install the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module</li> <li>Manage teams with Microsoft Teams PowerShell module</li> </ul> <h3>37 - Create and manage background jobs using Windows PowerShell</h3> <ul> <li>Define the types of background jobs in Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Start remote jobs and CIM/WMI jobs in Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Monitor jobs in Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Retrieve results for running jobs in Windows PowerShell</li> </ul> <h3>38 - Create and manage scheduled jobs using Windows PowerShell</h3> <ul> <li>Create and run Windows PowerShell scripts as scheduled tasks</li> <li>Define scheduled jobs in Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Create job option and job trigger objects in Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Create and register a scheduled job in Windows PowerShell</li> <li>Retrieve the results from a scheduled job in Windows PowerShell</li> </ul></div>

Nexus Human

Azure PowerShell

Powershell

Microsoft AZ-104

Power Automate

Microsoft AZ-303

Microsoft Power Automate

AZ-040T00 Automating Administration with Powershell

<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>4 Days</p><p>24 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p></p><p>The audience for this course is data professionals managing data and databases who want to learn about administering the data platform technologies that are available on Microsoft Azure. This course is also valuable for data architects and application developers who need to understand what technologies are available for the data platform with Azure and how to work with those technologies through applications.</p><p></p><p></p><p>This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to administer a SQL Server database infrastructure for cloud, on-premises and hybrid relational databases and who work with the Microsoft PaaS relational database offerings. Additionally, it will be of use to individuals who develop applications that deliver content from SQL-based relational databases.</p><p></p>Prerequisites<p>In addition to their professional experience, students who take this training should have technical knowledge equivalent to the following courses:   </p><li>AZ-900T00 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals  </li><li>DP-900T00 Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals<p></p></li></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h3>1 - Prepare to maintain SQL databases on Azure</h3> <ul> <li>Describe Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform roles</li> <li>Understand SQL Server in an Azure virtual machine</li> <li>Design Azure SQL Database for cloud-native applications</li> <li>Explore Azure SQL Database Managed Instance</li> </ul> <h3>2 - Deploy IaaS solutions with Azure SQL</h3> <ul> <li>Explain IaaS options to deploy SQL Server in Azure</li> <li>Understand hybrid scenarios</li> <li>Explore performance and security</li> <li>Explain high availability and disaster recovery options</li> </ul> <h3>3 - Deploy PaaS solutions with Azure SQL</h3> <ul> <li>Explain PaaS options for deploying SQL Server in Azure</li> <li>Explore single SQL database</li> <li>Deploy SQL database elastic pool</li> <li>Understand SQL database hyperscale</li> <li>Examine SQL managed instance</li> <li>Describe SQL Edge</li> </ul> <h3>4 - Evaluate strategies for migrating to Azure SQL</h3> <ul> <li>Understand compatibility level</li> <li>Understand Azure preview features</li> <li>Describe Azure database migration options</li> </ul> <h3>5 - Migrate SQL workloads to Azure SQL databases</h3> <ul> <li>Choose the right SQL Server Instance option in Azure</li> <li>Migrate SQL Server to Azure SQL Database offline</li> <li>Migrate SQL Server to Azure SQL Database online</li> <li>Load and move data to Azure SQL Database</li> </ul> <h3>6 - Migrate SQL workloads to Azure Managed Instances</h3> <ul> <li>Evaluate migration scenarios to SQL Database Managed Instance</li> <li>Migrate to SQL Database Managed Instance</li> <li>Load and Move data to SQL Database Managed Instance</li> </ul> <h3>7 - Configure database authentication and authorization</h3> <ul> <li>Describe Active Directory and Azure Active Directory</li> <li>Describe authentication and identities</li> <li>Describe Security Principals</li> <li>Describe database and object permissions</li> <li>Identify authentication and authorization failures</li> </ul> <h3>8 - Protect data in-transit and at rest</h3> <ul> <li>Explore Transparent Data Encryption</li> <li>Configure server and database firewall rules</li> <li>Explain object encryption and secure enclaves</li> <li>Enable encrypted connections</li> <li>Describe SQL injection</li> <li>Understand Azure Key Vault</li> </ul> <h3>9 - Implement compliance controls for sensitive data</h3> <ul> <li>Explore data classification</li> <li>Explore server and database audit</li> <li>Implement Dynamic Data Masking</li> <li>Implement Row Level security</li> <li>Understand Microsoft Defender for SQL</li> <li>Explore Azure SQL Database Ledger</li> <li>Implement Azure Purview</li> </ul> <h3>10 - Describe performance monitoring</h3> <ul> <li>Describe performance monitoring tools</li> <li>Describe critical performance metrics</li> <li>Establish baseline metrics</li> <li>Explore extended events</li> <li>Describe Azure SQL Insights</li> <li>Explore Query Performance Insight</li> </ul> <h3>11 - Configure SQL Server resources for optimal performance</h3> <ul> <li>Explain how to optimize Azure storage for SQL Server virtual machines</li> <li>Describe virtual machine resizing</li> <li>Optimize database storage</li> <li>Control SQL Server resources</li> </ul> <h3>12 - Configure databases for optimal performance</h3> <ul> <li>Explore database maintenance checks</li> <li>Describe database scoped configuration options</li> <li>Describe automatic tuning</li> <li>Describe intelligent query processing</li> </ul> <h3>13 - Explore query performance optimization</h3> <ul> <li>Understand query plans</li> <li>Explain estimated and actual query plans</li> <li>Describe dynamic management views and functions</li> <li>Explore Query Store</li> <li>Identify problematic query plans</li> <li>Describe blocking and locking</li> </ul> <h3>14 - Evaluate performance improvements</h3> <ul> <li>Describe wait statistics</li> <li>Tune and maintain indexes</li> <li>Understand query hints</li> </ul> <h3>15 - Explore performance-based design</h3> <ul> <li>Describe normalization</li> <li>Choose appropriate data types</li> <li>Design indexes</li> </ul> <h3>16 - Automate deployment of database resources</h3> <ul> <li>Describe deployment models in Azure</li> <li>Automate deployment by using Azure Resource Manager templates and Bicep</li> <li>Automate deployment by using PowerShell</li> <li>Automate deployment by using Azure CLI</li> </ul> <h3>17 - Create and manage SQL Agent jobs</h3> <ul> <li>Create a SQL Server maintenance plan</li> <li>Describe task status notifications</li> </ul> <h3>18 - Manage Azure PaaS tasks using automation</h3> <ul> <li>Explore Elastic jobs</li> <li>Understand Azure Automation</li> <li>Build an automation runbook</li> <li>Automate database workflows by using Logic Apps</li> <li>Monitor automated tasks</li> </ul> <h3>19 - Describe high availability and disaster recovery strategies</h3> <ul> <li>Describe recovery time objective and recovery point objective</li> <li>Explore high availability and disaster recovery options</li> <li>Describe Azure high availability and disaster recovery  features for Azure Virtual Machines</li> <li>Describe high availability and disaster recovery options for PaaS deployments</li> <li>Explore an IaaS high availability and disaster recovery solution</li> <li>Describe hybrid solutions</li> </ul> <h3>20 - Explore IaaS and PaaS solutions for high availability and disaster recovery</h3> <ul> <li>Describe failover clusters in Windows Server</li> <li>Configure Always-on availability groups</li> <li>Describe temporal tables in Azure SQL Database</li> <li>Describe active geo-replication for Azure SQL Database</li> <li>Explore auto-failover groups for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance</li> </ul> <h3>21 - Back up and restore databases</h3> <ul> <li>Back up and restore SQL Server running on Azure virtual machines</li> <li>Back up a SQL Server virtual machine</li> <li>Back up and restore a database using Azure SQL Database</li> </ul></div><div id="course-pills-3"><h4>Additional course details:</h4><br /><p>Nexus Humans DP-300T00: Administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. </p><p></p> This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. <p></p>Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success.  <p></p>While we feel this is the best course for the DP-300T00: Administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you.  <p></p>Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.<p></p></div>

Azure SQL Database

Microsoft AZ-900

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft AZ-700

DP-300T00 Administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions

<div id="course-pills-1">Duration<p>3 Days</p><p>18 CPD hours</p>This course is intended for<p>This course is intended for security engineers, security architects, and information security professionals.</p>Overview<p>Identify security benefits and responsibilities of using the AWS Cloud Build secure application infrastructures Protect applications and data from common security threats Perform and automate security checks Configure authentication and permissions for applications and resources Monitor AWS resources and respond to incidents Capture and process logs Create and configure automated and repeatable deployments with tools such as AMIs and AWS CloudFormation</p><p>This course demonstrates how to efficiently use AWS security services to stay secure in the AWS Cloud. The course focuses on the security practices that AWS recommends for enhancing the security of your data and systems in the cloud. The course highlights the security features of AWS key services including compute, storage, networking, and database services. You will also learn how to leverage AWS services and tools for automation, continuous monitoring and logging, and responding to security incidents.</p>Prerequisites<p>We recommend that attendees of this course have: </p><ul> <li>Working knowledge of IT security practices and infrastructure concepts</li> <li>Familiarity with cloud computing concepts</li> <li>Completed AWS Security Essentials and Architecting on AWS courses</li> </ul><p></p></div><div id="course-pills-2"><h3>1 - Security on AWS</h3> <ul> <li>Security in the AWS cloud</li> <li>AWS Shared Responsibility Model</li> <li>Incident response overview</li> <li>DevOps with Security Engineering</li> </ul> <h3>2 - Identifying Entry Points on AWS</h3> <ul> <li>Identify the different ways to access the AWS platform</li> <li>Understanding IAM policies</li> <li>IAM Permissions Boundary</li> <li>IAM Access Analyzer</li> <li>Multi-factor authentication</li> <li>AWS CloudTrail</li> </ul> <h3>3 - Security Considerations: Web Application Environments</h3> <ul> <li>Threats in a three-tier architecture</li> <li>Common threats: user access</li> <li>Common threats: data access</li> <li>AWS Trusted Advisor</li> </ul> <h3>4 - Application Security</h3> <ul> <li>Amazon Machine Images</li> <li>Amazon Inspector</li> <li>AWS Systems Manager</li> </ul> <h3>5 - Data Security</h3> <ul> <li>Data protection strategies</li> <li>Encryption on AWS</li> <li>Protecting data at rest with Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB</li> <li>Protecting archived data with Amazon S3 Glacier</li> <li>Amazon S3 Access Analyzer</li> <li>Amazon S3 Access Points</li> </ul> <h3>6 - Securing Network Communications</h3> <ul> <li>Amazon VPC security considerations</li> <li>Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring</li> <li>Responding to compromised instances</li> <li>Elastic Load Balancing</li> <li>AWS Certificate Manager</li> </ul> <h3>7 - Monitoring and Collecting Logs on AWS</h3> <ul> <li>Amazon CloudWatch and CloudWatch Logs</li> <li>AWS Config</li> <li>Amazon Macie</li> <li>Amazon VPC Flow Logs</li> <li>Amazon S3 Server Access Logs</li> <li>ELB Access Logs</li> </ul> <h3>8 - Processing Logs on AWS</h3> <ul> <li>Amazon Kinesis</li> <li>Amazon Athena</li> </ul> <h3>9 - Security Considerations: Hybrid Environments</h3> <ul> <li>AWS Site-to-Site and Client VPN connections</li> <li>AWS Direct Connect</li> <li>AWS Transit Gateway</li> </ul> <h3>10 - Out-Of-Region Protection</h3> <ul> <li>Amazon Route 53</li> <li>AWS WAF</li> <li>Amazon CloudFront</li> <li>AWS Shield</li> <li>AWS Firewall Manager</li> <li>DDoS mitigation on AWS</li> </ul> <h3>11 - Security Considerations: Serverless Environments</h3> <ul> <li>Amazon Cognito</li> <li>Amazon API Gateway</li> <li>AWS Lambda</li> </ul> <h3>12 - Threat Detection and Investigation</h3> <ul> <li>Amazon GuardDuty</li> <li>AWS Security Hub</li> <li>Amazon Detective</li> </ul> <h3>13 - Secrets Management on AWS</h3> <ul> <li>AWS KMS</li> <li>AWS CloudHSM</li> <li>AWS Secrets Manager</li> </ul> <h3>14 - Automation and Security by Design</h3> <ul> <li>AWS CloudFormation</li> <li>AWS Service Catalog</li> </ul> <h3>15 - Account Management and Provisioning on AWS</h3> <ul> <li>AWS Organizations</li> <li>AWS Control Tower</li> <li>AWS SSO</li> <li>AWS Directory Service</li> </ul></div>

IT Security

AWS Certification

Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Cyber Security

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Security Engineering on AWS

<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">The WSET Level 2 Award in Wines has full accreditation from OfQual as a Level 2 Vocational Qualification. Through a combination of tasting and theory you will explore the factors that impact the style and quality of wine and learn how to describe wines with confidence.</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Course Schedule:</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">The 8 x 2-hour online sessions on -&nbsp;</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">What the course covers</strong></p><ul style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Wine tasting</strong>: You will learn how to taste and describe wines using the WSET Systematic Approach to Tasting (SAT)</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Food and wine pairing</strong>: You will learn the principles of food and wine pairing</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Wine service and storage</strong>: You will learn the correct way to store and serve wine and how to recognise common faults found in wine</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Labelling</strong>: You will learn how to decode and understand wine labels</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Factors influencing the style of wine</strong>: You will explore how environmental factors, grape-growing, vineyard and maturation options influence the style and quality of the wines made all over the world</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Grape varieties</strong>: You&#39;ll learn about the styles of wines produced by the key international red and white grape varieties (Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, Merlot and Syrah/Shiraz) as well as the styles of wines made with 22 regionally important grape varieties grown in 70 wine regions (GI&#39;s) around the world</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Sparkling and Fortified wines</strong>: You will be taught how grape varieties and winemaking processes influence the style of wines in these two key wine categories.</li></ul><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">No prior wine knowledge is required however the course builds upon the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.localwineschool.com/manchester/events/professional-courses/wset-courses/wset-course-level-1-online/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="color: rgb(157, 40, 51); user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(157, 40, 51);">WSET Level 1 Award in Wines</a> course. It is not essential to complete Level 1 to join the Level 2 course but if you are a complete begineer you may wish to consider this option. We recommend you read the course specification document&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wsetglobal.com/media/11718/wset_l2wines_specification_en_jun2022_issue11.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="color: rgb(157, 40, 51); user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(157, 40, 51);">HERE</a>&nbsp;for full details of the content, structure and assesment criteria. Any questions please&nbsp;<a href="https://www.localwineschool.com/manchester/contact/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="color: rgb(157, 40, 51); user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(157, 40, 51);">get in touch</a>.</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Course delivery</strong></p><ul style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Level 2 Award in Wines online course covers the same syllabus as the classroom course and is delivered in LIVE interactive online lessons by one of our certified wine educators</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">This course includes 16 hours online tuition in 8 x 2hr sessions&nbsp;and we recommend a minimum of 12 hours additional study</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Your tutor will give you a guided tasting of 12 wines on this course (for details of how to order the wines see below)</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">You will receive access to practice multiple-choice revision questions specific to this course - FREE OF CHARGE</li></ul><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Please note a reliable broadband connection is essential for the completion of this online course as are basic computer skills.</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Examination</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">To obtain the WSET Level 2 Award in Wines Qualification, you will need to successfully pass the exam. The exam is made up of 50 multiple-choice questions to be completed in 1 hour. A mark of 55% is required to pass the exam.</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">The exam is taken online via a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DarWJz6dUbU" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="color: rgb(157, 40, 51); user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(157, 40, 51);">Remote Invigilation</a> service giving you the flexibility to take the exam at a time and date of your choice. More details will be sent upon registration. Please ensure you read the information&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wsetglobal.com/wset-remote-invigilation-essential-guidance/?dm_i=5G5C,KRHB,4A50QU,2G285,1" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="color: rgb(157, 40, 51); user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(157, 40, 51);">HERE</a>&nbsp;if you wish to take the exam online.&nbsp;</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Whats included</strong></p><ul style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">All WSET course materials posted to you at no extra charge including: Looking Behind the Label course manual, Study Guide, specification and SAT Tasting Card</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">LIVE virtual interactive sessions taught by a Local Wine School WSET Certified Tutor</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Exclusive access to practice multiple choice questions provided FREE OF CHARGE</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">WSET exam fee&nbsp;</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Remote Invigilation service&nbsp;</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Internationally recognised WSET qualification, certificate and pin for those who pass the exam</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">VAT at 20% &nbsp;(VAT receipt can be provided on request)</li></ul><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Course Wines</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">It is recommended that at least 12 wines are tasted as part of this course, although this is optional and the cost of wines is not included in the course fee above.</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Our wine experts have specially selected wines for this course designed to demonstrate specific learning outcomes. We have negotiated a discounted price only available to our online students. Details of how to order your case of wines will be provided when you book your place. The cost is approx &pound;150 including VAT and delivery.&nbsp;</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Wine preservation advice is give so that after each tasting exercise you can reseal and return to the wines over the coming days. &nbsp;</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Special Educational Needs</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Please make the school aware if you have a condition which may mean that you will qualify for additional help during the exam such as dyslexia.</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Important dates</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Registration deadline: please book at least 5 days before the start of the course, to allow time to send materials and order the tasting wines.</p>

Manchester Wine School

Sommelier

ONLINE - WSET Level 2 Award in Wines - Evenings

<p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LOOKING FOR:</strong> ADULT FICTION</p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Louise Buckley</span></strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">has worked in publishing for well over a decade. She was inspired to enter the publishing industry after completing an MA in Creative Writing and then spent a hugely enjoyable year working as a bookseller for Waterstones, wishing that she could have a hand in publishing books.</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">After a year working at Dorling Kindersley, she then spent almost five years working in the commercial fiction division at Pan Macmillan, where she published a mix of commercial bestsellers and award-winning authors.</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Most recently, she was an Associate Literary Agent at Zeno Agency Ltd. As an agent she represented a roster of commercial and literary fiction, including Anne Griffin&rsquo;s <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">When All is Said</em>, which spent five weeks at number one in Ireland and sold into 17 territories.</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">She is delighted to be working with Hannah at Hannah Sheppard Literary Agency.</span></p><p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Louise is looking for:-</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Literary and upmarket fiction</strong> that focusses on the underdog, the repressed, the suppressed. Louise is especially interested in novels that represent working-class people or children going through difficult circumstances (think <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Shuggie Bain</em> by Douglas Stuart, <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">My Name is Leon</em> by Kit de Waal or <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Boys Don&rsquo;t Cry</em> by F&Iacute;ona Scarlett).</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Irish literary and book club fiction</strong>. Think Claire Keegan, Louise Kennedy or Anne Griffin.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">In <strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">commercial fiction</strong> she loves novels set during the Second World War, such as <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Nightingale</em> by Kristin Hannah, <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Beekeeper of Aleppo</em> by Christi Lefteri or <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Midwife of Auschwitz</em> by Anna Stuart. Louise recently read and loved <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Last List of Mabel Beaumont</em> by Laura Pearson and would love to see anything in the same &lsquo;older person going on a journey&rsquo; category, a more recent <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry</em>.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Louise had a lot of fun publishing a &lsquo;pet fiction&rsquo; novel as an editor (<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Molly and the Cat&nbsp;Caf&eacute;</em>) and would love to find an author who can write an <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Alfie the Doorstep Cat/Dog</em>.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">She has a soft spot for novels featuring <strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">time-travel or parallel universes</strong>, a &lsquo;what if&rsquo; that plays around with conventions. At the literary end this would be books like <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Life After Life</em> by Kate Atkinson, <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Shining Girls</em> by Lauren Beukes or <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">This is How You Lose the Time War</em> by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. At the more commercial end Louise loved <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wrong Place, Wrong Time</em> by Gillian McAllister, <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dark Matter</em> by Blake Crouch and <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Oona Out of Order</em> by Martina Montimore. She also enjoys novels set in the real world but featuring a hefty dose of magic or the supernatural. They can be commercial or literary, present-day or historical. Think <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rivers of London</em> by Ben Aaronovitch, <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Threadneedle</em> by Cari Thomas, <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Discovery of Witches</em> by Deborah Harkness or <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Gifts</em> by Liz Hyder. And also cosy fantasy in the vein of <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Legends and Lattes</em> or<em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;The House in the Cerulean Sea</em>.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Cosy or humorous crime</strong>. Recently, Louise absolutely loved <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Over My Dead Body</em> by Maz Evans. When she was an editor Louise published the hit <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Luckiest Girl Alive</em> by Jessica Knoll and would love to represent incisive, intelligent suspense written by authors such as Jessica Knoll and Gillian Flynn, or something a little more subversive and blackly comic like <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">My Sister, the Serial Killer</em> by Oyinkan Braithwaite.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">More generally, Louise would also love to see novels with a disabled protagonist or someone (like myself) who is living with an invisible disability. As an ex-primary school teacher, she also warmly welcomes submissions from teachers, especially if the submission falls into one of the other categories she has listed. Following-on from this, she enjoys reading stories that follow a &lsquo;beating the system&rsquo; narrative.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><u fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Louise is NOT looking for</u>:</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">-romance</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">-romantasy</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">-epic, traditional fantasy</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">-space opera</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">-straightforward women&rsquo;s fiction</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">-children&rsquo;s fiction of any kind</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">-non-fiction</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong id="isPasted" style="color: rgb(16, 24, 64); font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(16, 24, 64);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Louise would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 page synopsis and the first three chapters or 5,000 words of your manuscript in a single word document.</span></strong>
</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In addition to the paid sessions, Louise is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email</span> <a href="mailto:agent121@iaminprint.co.uk" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size);" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto;">agent121@iaminprint.co.uk</a> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the </span></em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">discretion of&nbsp;</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print)</em>.&nbsp;</span></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with<strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Pr</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">int</em> prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach <em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> by the stated submission deadline and note that <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am In Print</em> take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The submission deadline is: Tuesday 1 October 2024</span></strong></p>

LOOKING FOR: ADULT FICTION
Louise Buckley  has worked in publishing for well over a decade. She was inspired to enter the publishing industry after completing an MA in Creative Writing and then spent a hugely enjoyable year working as a bookseller for Waterstones, wishing that she could have a hand in publishing books.
After a year working at Dorling Kindersley, she then spent almost five years working in the commercial fiction division at Pan Macmillan, where she published a mix of commercial bestsellers and award-winning authors.
Most recently, she was an Associate Literary Agent at Zeno Agency Ltd. As an agent she represented a roster of commercial and literary fiction, including Anne Griffin’s When All is Said, which spent five weeks at number one in Ireland and sold into 17 territories.
She is delighted to be working with Hannah at Hannah Sheppard Literary Agency.
Louise is looking for:-
Literary and upmarket fiction that focusses on the underdog, the repressed, the suppressed. Louise is especially interested in novels that represent working-class people or children going through difficult circumstances (think Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart, My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal or Boys Don’t Cry by FÍona Scarlett).
Irish literary and book club fiction. Think Claire Keegan, Louise Kennedy or Anne Griffin.
In commercial fiction she loves novels set during the Second World War, such as The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christi Lefteri or The Midwife of Auschwitz by Anna Stuart. Louise recently read and loved The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson and would love to see anything in the same ‘older person going on a journey’ category, a more recent The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
Louise had a lot of fun publishing a ‘pet fiction’ novel as an editor (Molly and the Cat Café) and would love to find an author who can write an Alfie the Doorstep Cat/Dog.
She has a soft spot for novels featuring time-travel or parallel universes, a ‘what if’ that plays around with conventions. At the literary end this would be books like Life After Life by Kate Atkinson, The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes or This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. At the more commercial end Louise loved Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, Dark Matter by Blake Crouch and Oona Out of Order by Martina Montimore. She also enjoys novels set in the real world but featuring a hefty dose of magic or the supernatural. They can be commercial or literary, present-day or historical. Think Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch, Threadneedle by Cari Thomas, A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness or The Gifts by Liz Hyder. And also cosy fantasy in the vein of Legends and Lattes or The House in the Cerulean Sea.
Cosy or humorous crime. Recently, Louise absolutely loved Over My Dead Body by Maz Evans. When she was an editor Louise published the hit Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll and would love to represent incisive, intelligent suspense written by authors such as Jessica Knoll and Gillian Flynn, or something a little more subversive and blackly comic like My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.
More generally, Louise would also love to see novels with a disabled protagonist or someone (like myself) who is living with an invisible disability. As an ex-primary school teacher, she also warmly welcomes submissions from teachers, especially if the submission falls into one of the other categories she has listed. Following-on from this, she enjoys reading stories that follow a ‘beating the system’ narrative.
Louise is NOT looking for:
-romance
-romantasy
-epic, traditional fantasy
-space opera
-straightforward women’s fiction
-children’s fiction of any kind
-non-fiction
Louise would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 page synopsis and the first three chapters or 5,000 words of your manuscript in a single word document.

(In addition to the paid sessions, Louise is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email agent121@iaminprint.co.uk to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the discretion of I Am In Print). 
By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with I Am In Print prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach I Am In Print by the stated submission deadline and note that I Am In Print take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.
The submission deadline is: Friday 27 September 2024

ONE SPACE LEFT! 8th October Louise Buckley #Agent121. Looking for: ADULT FICTION

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<p id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">At Noble, we deliver the SLII programme in a combination of <strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"></strong>in person and virtual sessions:</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Part 1</strong> - a one-day module takes place <strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">in person - there is NO option to attend virtually</em></strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Parts 2 to 5</strong> - 4 x two-hour sessions delivered <strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">virtually</em></strong> <strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;"><em fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">- there is NO option to attend in person</em></strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">We blend self-directed learning, online discussions, interactive exercises, reflection, and offline assignments with a comprehensive personal leadership assessment/360 feedback tool.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">Programme Overview</strong></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Create individual success with a situational approach to leadership.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">With business moving at a blistering pace, there&rsquo;s more pressure than ever for leaders to be effective at managing successful teams. But often, they don&rsquo;t have the skills to be the agile, adaptive leaders they need to be, and they struggle to build meaningful connections and achieve results.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><img src="https://images.cademy.co.uk/noble-foods/1724427e-f924-4b7f-a1ca-7e8162b5a745/original.png" style="width: 576px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: auto; padding: 0px 1px; -webkit-user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="width: 576px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: auto;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">It&rsquo;s not for lack of effort or interest. Research has shown that most leaders are limited to a single leadership style&mdash;so they don&rsquo;t know how to unleash the potential of their people as their needs shift.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">Leaders need to learn how to lead situationally. Blanchard&rsquo;s SLII&reg; empowers leaders to become adaptive&mdash;a requirement for our uncertain times. Backed by 40 years of research and an unmatched track record of results, The SLII Experience&trade; teaches your leaders how to lead situationally by giving their people the right support and direction at the right time.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;">SLII enables leaders to build deeper relationships with their people, making every day more inspiring, motivating, and meaningful.</p><p fr-original-style="" style="color: var(--text); font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box;"><img src="https://images.cademy.co.uk/noble-foods/78645ffb-283b-42a4-8c69-157fd9fe085e/original.png" style="width: 300px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: auto; padding: 0px 1px; -webkit-user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="width: 300px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: auto;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></p>

At Noble, we deliver the SLII programme in a combination of in person and virtual sessions:
Part 1 - a one-day module takes place in person - there is NO option to attend virtually
Parts 2 to 5 - 4 x two-hour sessions delivered virtually - there is NO option to attend in person
We blend self-directed learning, online discussions, interactive exercises, reflection, and offline assignments with a comprehensive personal leadership assessment/360 feedback tool.
Programme Overview
Create individual success with a situational approach to leadership.
With business moving at a blistering pace, there’s more pressure than ever for leaders to be effective at managing successful teams. But often, they don’t have the skills to be the agile, adaptive leaders they need to be, and they struggle to build meaningful connections and achieve results.

It’s not for lack of effort or interest. Research has shown that most leaders are limited to a single leadership style—so they don’t know how to unleash the potential of their people as their needs shift.
Leaders need to learn how to lead situationally. Blanchard’s SLII® empowers leaders to become adaptive—a requirement for our uncertain times. Backed by 40 years of research and an unmatched track record of results, The SLII Experience™ teaches your leaders how to lead situationally by giving their people the right support and direction at the right time.
SLII enables leaders to build deeper relationships with their people, making every day more inspiring, motivating, and meaningful.


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