The skills IT professionals need to succeed Technical IT Training Technology is only as effective as the expertise of the people installing, operating and using it. Developing the right skills is vital to maximise the benefit of technology investments. With a comprehensive range of authorised technical training on all of the leading technologies, supported by a strong complementary QA authored curriculum, we deliver the skills IT professionals need to succeed. At a glance All of our Technical IT training courses including vendor courses from the likes of Microsoft, Cisco and VMware and our QA authored courses on key IT skills are categorised by business solution area. Each solution area represents a key IT skill set. The 15 business solution areas are: Application architecture and enterprise systems Application development Business applications Business process and finance Cloud computing Data management and business intelligence Hardware IA and cyber security Internet and web development Messaging and collaboration Mobile development Networking and data communications Operating systems and infrastructure Systems management Virtualisation and storage transforming performance through learning
Product-based/Vendor-accredited courses We are proud of our strong relationships with all of the major IT software and hardware suppliers. These partnerships enable us to deliver the official curriculum courses and certifications that IT professionals need to succeed. Microsoft - qa.com/microsoft Two out of every three people who train using the Microsoft Official Curriculum are trained by QA - making us the largest official provider of Microsoft training in the UK. QA trains 16,000 delegates a year in Microsoft technologies. QA trains delegates across the whole of the Microsoft product range from Windows Server and Virtualisation, SQL Server Database and Business Intelligence through to Visual Studio and Web Developer technologies. QA is recognised by Microsoft as being one of its leading partners for quality and innovation having won the prestigious Microsoft Worldwide Partner Award for Learning Solutions. QA deliver many learning programmes for Microsoft both for Microsoft itself and to its wider partner network including many early adopter programmes such as the Partner Readiness Training Programmes on Office 365, SQL Server 2012, Private Cloud and Virtualisation. Oracle - qa.com/oracle QA is the UK s largest Oracle Approved Education Centre. QA trains more than 2,000 delegates a year in Oracle Database, Middleware, Applications, Storage and Server technologies. QA was a recent award winner at the UK Oracle User Group s Partner of the Year awards. Our unique partnership with Oracle University means we are able to offer an extended portfolio of all Oracle University training events and services including Live Virtual Class, Training On Demand and Self Study courses. Apple - qa.com/apple QA is a leading authorised Apple Authorised Training Centre. QA works closely with Apple to deliver authorised OS X Mountain Lion Server and Support courses. Amazon Web Services (AWS) - qa.com/amazon QA joined Amazon Partner Network (APN) and is the only authorised training provider in the UK. We have dedicated Principal Technologists (trainers) that are AWS-certified and fully committed to ensuring you receive the most from your training. QA provides the widest range of AWS courses in the UK - our curriculum constantly grows alongside the development of AWS products and services. VMware - qa.com/vmware QA has 10 VMware Certified Instructors (VCI) allowing us to run more courses, more often. We run all of VMware s courses giving you the choice, depth and breadth you need to develop your virtualisation skills. As a Premier VATC (VMware Authorised Training Centre) QA accepts VMware PSO (Professional Services Organisation) credits. Citrix - qa.com/citrix QA is the only Citrix Authorised Learning Centre (CALC) in the UK to offer the entire Citrix curriculum. QA has a team of five Certified Citrix Instructors (CCI) giving us the capability to run more courses, more often, right across the UK. QA was named Citrix Authorised Learning Centre (CALC) of the year for UK & Ireland and EMEA in 2012. QA s Senior Learning Consultant Tim Simonds won Citrix Certified Instructor (CCI) of the Year for the UK & Ireland in 2012. Cisco - qa.com/cisco QA provides the largest geographical public schedule of Cisco authorised courses in the UK. QA provides a comprehensive portfolio of Cisco authorised courses covering Network, Security, Voice, Wireless and Data Centre technologies. RedHat - qa.com/redhat QA is the only official RedHat delivery partner in the UK. QA is the largest provider of authorised Red Hat training courses in the UK. 80% of all delegates who sat RedHat training in the UK in 2012 did it at a QA training centre. QA has a comprehensive portfolio of authorised RedHat courses specialising in System Administration, Enterprise Clustering, Storage Management and JBoss Application development technologies. Salesforce.com - qa.com/salesforce QA is the UK s first authorised Salesforce.com learning partner in the UK.
IT Skills: QA s Technical Solution Areas All of our Technical IT training courses are categorised by business solution area. Each solution area represents a key IT skill set. Below is a table which maps all of our key vendors to each solution area to give you a view of the breadth of portfolio QA offers. QA Authored Amazon Web Services (AWS) Apple Cisco Citrix & AppSense CompTIA EC Council Hortonworks Apache Hadoop 2.0 Microsoft Oracle (Sun) VMware Application Architecture and Enterprise Systems Application TOGAF BCS ArchiMate2 Java C,C++ and COBOL Perl Python Bash MySQL and PHP Objective C ios Cisco Switching Cisco Routing Cisco Bridges Cisco Hubs Cisco VOIP BizTalk Server WCF.NET 4.0 &.NET 4.5 Visual Studio Oracle Application Server Java JEE JSE Application Express Oracle Designer Oracle Forms and Reports Business Applications Business Process and Finance Cloud Computing Data Management and Business Intelligence Hardware IA and Cyber Security Microsoft Adobe - CS5 and CS6 Crystal Reports Hyper V Introduction to Cloud Computing System Center 2012 Database Analysis and Design Data Warehousing SQL Language Understanding Data Science and Big Data IT Security Fundamentals CISSP and SSCP Information Assurance in HMG Information Security Management Principles PKI and TLS Security OWASP Penetration testing Malware CAS(T) IS 1 and 2 AWS Essentials Developing on AWS Big Data on AWS Systems Operations on AWS Advanced Operations on AWS Architecting on AWS Architecting on AWS - Advanced Concepts Office for Mac Cisco Unified Computing Services Cisco Unified Fabric Citrix Cloud Stack CompTIA Cloud Essentials A+ Certification CompTIA Server + Security+ CompTIA CASP Certified Ethical Hacker Apache Hadoop Essentials 2.0 Operations Management Developing Applications using Java Developing & Operating Data on Windows Data Analysis Microsoft Office Office 365 Dynamics CRM AX Azure SQL Server Performance Point ProClarity SQL Server Integration Services SQL Server Reporting Services SQL Server Analysis Services PerformancePoint Services Excel PowerPivot and Pivot Tables Excel Data Mining Entity Framework Forefront TMG Forefront UAG Primavera Siebel PeopleSoft E-Business Suite Fusion Applications Hyperion JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Oracle Financials Applications PeopleSoft Oracle Exadata Database Machine Oracle Identity Exalogic Elastic Cloud Data Warehousing and BI MySQL Oracle Data Guard Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Database 11g Oracle Database Security Oracle Real Application Clusters and Grid Oracle Spatial, Oracle SQL and PL/SQL Oracle XML DB Sun Sparc Series Sunfire Sun Blade vcloud Automation Centre vcloud Director vcloud Network Security for vsphere Internet and Web Messaging and Collaboration Mobile Networking and Data Communications Operating Systems and Infrastructure Systems Management Virtualisation and storage CSS XHTML and Accessibility MySQL and PHP JavaScript Jquery XML and XSLT Style Sheets User Experience Fundamentals Advanced UX Principles: Designing for Devices Mobile PhoneGap/Cordova Android Voice and Data Communications Linux Apache Multi-vendor UNIX Powershell System Center Operations System Center Service System Center Configuration System Center Orchestrator Visual Basic Scripting Edition QA also offers Technical IT training from the following vendors: Objective C ios OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 OS X Mavericks 10.9 Cisco Unified Communications Cisco Contact Center Cisco Switching Cisco Routing Cisco Bridges Cisco Hubs Cisco VOIP NetScaler Branch Repeater AppSense Citrix Access Gateway NetScaler XenApp XenDesktop XenServer Network Security Administrator AutoCAD RIM BlackBerry Blue Coat Check Point Crossbeam F5 Fortran Google HP Hyperion IBM Juniper Linux McAfee NetApp Novell RedHat Salesforce.com SAP Siebel SolarWinds Websense WireShark Network+ CompTIA A + CompTIA Storage + Network Security Administrator Silverlight Exchange Server Lync C# JavaScript CSS3 Windows Client Windows Server Powershell System Center Operations System Center Service System Center Configuration System Center Orchestrator Visual Basic Scripting Edition APP-V Hyper-V SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine ) JEE JME Solaris Oracle Logical Containers and Zones Oracle Desktop Virtualisation Infrastructure Oracle VM vcentre Operations vcentre Configuration VMware ThinApp VMware Site Recovery vcloud Automation Centre vsphere VMware Horizon View 0845 757 3888 info@qa.com www.qa.com
QA Our Authored experience Courses Bridging The Gap Real-world IT spans a range of interconnecting technologies, joined together by general skills and best practice techniques. It is for this reason that we are continually developing our QA Authored curriculum which complements and bridges the gap between our wide range of hardware/software-specific training. To develop this QA Authored curriculum, we constantly monitor innovations in technology and ensure that we remain at the forefront of learning design and delivery. This commitment to developing and delivering courses that meet real business needs whether they are courses in software, hardware or the skills that sit in-between makes QA the one-stop-shop for all of your IT training. Below is a snap-shot of some of our newest QA Authored Technical IT training courses. To learn more about one or more of these QA Authored courses, simply type the course code into the search field on www.qa.com. Alternatively contact us at info@qa.com, call us on 0845 757 3888 or speak to your QA account manager directly. Code Course title Duration Solution Area QAOWASPNET Developing Secure.NET Web Applications 4 days IA and Cyber Security Mitigating the OWASP Top 10 QAOWASPJAVA Developing Secure JAVA Web Applications 4 days IA and Cyber Security Mitigating the OWASP Top 10 QAWEBUI Developing Web Applications Using 5 days Mobile QARIAHTML Developing Rich Internet Applications Using 5 days Mobile QACSS3 Developing Websites Using CSS3 3 days Mobile QASASS Mobile Website Using CSS3 & SASS 2 days Mobile QACPPNONC C++ Programming for non C Programmers 5 days Internet and Web QACPP Programming with C++ 5 days Internet and Web QACPPADV Advanced C++ Programming 5 days Internet and Web QACPPJAVACS C++ Programming for Java and C# Developers 4 days Internet and Web QALAMP Developing and Delivering Dynamic Websites Using Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP 5 days Internet and Web QACS The C# Programming Language 5 days Internet and Web QASCOM12 Administering Microsoft System Center 2012 4 days Systems Management Operations QASCORCH12 Designing Runbook Automation with Microsoft 3 days Systems Management System Center 2012 Orchestrator QASCSM12 Administering Microsoft System Center 2012 Service 4 days Systems Management QASDPM12 Managing Microsoft System Center Data Protection 2012 5 days Systems Management QAEXCH10PSA Powershell for Exchange 2010 Administrators 3 days Operating Systems and Infrastructure QASQLBI12 Business Intelligence End To End with SQL Server 2012 and 2013 5 days Data Management and Business Intelligence QAUSKHYPV3 Updating Support Skills to Hyper-V v3.0 3 days Cloud Computing QAPYTH3 Python 3 Programming 4 days Application
Why QA? Transforming performance through learning Quality, every time Award-winning training QA is committed to providing the highest quality training and learning services. From the professionalism and expertise of our people, through to our innovative QA Authored curriculum and first-class learning facilities every aspect of our service is geared around providing the highest quality experience to our customers. Don t just take our word for it. The industry agrees. Our award-winning training and industry accreditations speak for themselves. Training without the travel costs We have a local presence within a nationwide infrastructure. As the largest provider of training in the UK, we benefit from a large community of consultants who have many years real-world experience in IT. With training centres in prime city centre locations around the country, from Bristol to Aberdeen and across London, you can spend your budget on training, not expensive travel. Learning support during and after your course Key Learning Points by email At QA we understand that the transition from classroom learning to improved performance in the workplace can be challenging. AUTHORIZED TRAINING PARTNER Therefore we provide delegates with summary format Key Learning Points after each classroom session by email, to significantly improve course retention and understanding. Key Learning Points will help our delegates to learn more from their class, increasing confidence before the exam, as well as pass rates after. 2012 2013 partner of the year award winner Best Training Provider Contact QA 0845 757 3888 info@qa.com Follow QA www.qa.com/twitter www.qa.com/facebook www.qa.com/linkedin QA/TechnicalIT/May2014 QA Ltd 2014. All rights reserved Cisco, the Cisco logo, and Cisco Systems are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All third party trademark rights acknowledged.