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ciw security analyst

admin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:40:20 +0000

CIW Security Analyst is a vendor neutral certification that validates your skills in implementing security methods in business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce models. After achieving this certification, you will be able to configure, manage and deploy e-business solutions, servers, and implement e-business and network security solutions.

CIW Security Analyst is an advanced level CIW certification. It is a good certification to opt for if you are interested to work as a Network Administrator, Server Administrator or Firewall Administrator. The job roles are technical in nature, and you need to have a proficient knowledge to accomplish your assigned tasks. The CIW Security Analyst certification can prove to be a milestone in your career if you have the aptitude for technical work.

The certification is meant for those who have already attained a level of proficiency in networking administration and want to prove their competencies in the field of Security. Companies need proficient networking professionals and hence are paying them good salary. So, the CIW Security Analyst certification is a great way to master your skills in Network Administration.

To achieve the CIW Security Analyst certification, you need to pass one core exam, i.e. 1D0-470 CIW Security Professional, and any of the following certifications:

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
Checkpoint Certified Security Expert (CCSE)
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Cisco Certified Internet Work Expert (CCIE)
Convergence Technologies Professional (CTP)
GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC)
ISC2 CISSP
Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate
Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Level 2
Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Level 3
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security (MCSE: Security)
Novell Certified Linux Engineer
Red Hat Certified Security Specialist (RHCSS)
Symantec Certified Technical Specialist (SCTS)
Red Hat Certified Security Specialist (RHCSS)
Symantec Certified Technical Specialist (SCTS)

You have to pass the 1DO-470 exam and submit proofof one networking administration certification.

1D0-510B CIW Site Development Foundations

admin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:39:53 +0000

If you are interested to work as a Design Specialist, the 1D0-510B CIW Site Development Foundations exam is the right choice for you, as this exam is a core requirement to become a CIW Associate Design Specialist. The exam is related to designing and implementing Websites and Web-based solutions. You must be knowing that Web development and Internet technologies are growing day-by-day all over the world. We can see the emergence of new Websites every now and then. So, this exam will also be beneficial to you from the job point of view.

After passing the 1D0-510B exam, you will become a CIW Associate Design Specialist.
The job of Design Specialists is highly creative, as you have to plan and implement ideas to develop Websites. The exam prepares you for various job roles such as Web designer, Web-marketer, business associate or art associate. The exam focuses on technologies such as XHTML coding, image editing, validations, css, GUI editors etc.
Exam Information
The exam requires knowledge of using the Internet on a personal computer running the Microsoft Windows or Unix/Linux operating systems. The exam consists of multiple-choice questions. You will be required to correctly answer at least 19 of the 30 questions (63%) in 30 minutes to pass the exam. Also, you should confirm the latest exam details by visiting the CIW Website or from the exam testing center, as these requirements can be changed later.
Some Important Exam Objectives

Demonstrate knowledge required to create a Web page.
Add images and graphical formatting to HTML files.
Identify and use design and color principles for Web pages.
Create a basic HTML form that accepts user input.
Create HTML frames.
Define Extensible Markup Language (XML), and identify its features and appropriate use.
Identify essential Web site navigation issues, and ensure page/site accessibility.
Identify steps in Web site planning and development process.
Plan and deliver oral presentations of your Web site during and after site development etc.

310-035 Sun SCJP Java2 Platform

admin — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:02:19 +0000

Is Sun Java exam SCJP is essential for becoming a CIW Certified? Yes, this it’s is true, 310-035 is one of the core requirements for becoming Master CIW Enterprise Developer certified. This exam tests your experience in using the basic syntax and structure of the Java programming language. Passing the this exam has twin benefits. Firstly you will earn achieve your SCJP Certification from SUN JAVA and secondly, you earn credit towards the Master CIW Enterprise Developer certification.

The 310-035 exam prepares you for as an entry-level positions to work as a programmer in Java technology. As you know Java applications are very much in demand, as so your job prospects are can also be high in this field.Many IT companies are hiring Java professionals, as Java-based applications are very much in demand these days Many I.T companies are looking for Java professionals. The 310-035 exam will be appropriate for you if you are a programmer experienced in using the basic syntax and structure of the Java programming language.

Information about the exam

This is an old version of the SCJP exam. There is no prerequisite test for this exam. The exam contains multiple choice and as well as short answer questions. You need have to correctly answer 32 questions out of 61 questions (52%) in order to pass the exam. You should also confirm the latest exam details by visiting the Sun Java website or from the exam testing center, because as these requirements can be changed later.

Exam Topics
Declaration and Access control Flow control, Assertions, and Exception Handling
Garbage collection
Language fundamentals
Operators and Assignments
Overloading, Overriding, Runtime Type and Object Orientation.
Threads
Fundamental classes in the java.lang package
The collection framework

CIW Associate Design Specialist

admin — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:12:51 +0000

Nowadays many people are looking for an IT certification that not only suit their interests but also one that can help them get a good job.So, if you are looking for a career in Website designing and its applications, this certification may be just right for you. Many multinational companies are hiring hundreds of professionals certified in Web designing applications and E-commerce practices.E-commerce, also known as Internet marketing, is becoming increasingly popular everyday. Many companies all over the world, including India, are doing business with the help of Internet marketing.companies are looking for people who add value to their company, so you must be an expert in the related field.
Exams Required

The CIW 1D0-510B Site Development foundation exam as well as the CIW 1D0-520 Site Designer exam are required for this certification. When you pass both exams, you will be certified as a CIW Associate Design Specialist.

Some of the important certification objectives are as follows:

Website Development
Creating hyper links
E-commerce practices
X HTML coding
Tables and Frames
GUI HTML Editors
Web Page layout and Elements
Navigation Concepts
Web Graphics and more

1D0-441 CIW Database Specialist

admin — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:12:37 +0000

The 1D0-441 CIW Database Specialist exam is related to developing and maintaining database systems.Databases are used for storing, analyzing and retrieving data. The Database specialists work with technicians and non-technicians in the preparation of software presentations and reports.
After passing the 1D0-441 exam, you will become a CIW Certified Professional. The exam is also essential if you want to pursue the CIW Certified Instructor or Master CIW Enterprise Developer certifications.
The Database Specialist exam prepares you for various job roles such as database developer and administrator, Internet application developer, programmer, Java developer, and client/server developer. The exam validates your knowledge on Database management systems concepts, Database design life cycle, aspects of database planning, and Structured Query Language (SQL) command and syntax.
Information about the exam
The prerequisite for the exam is CIW Association certification. You need to have excellent and analytical skills as well as communication and interpersonal abilities for taking the 1D0-441 exam. The exam is appropriate for those who have a thorough understanding of database fundamentals.
Exam Topic
CIW Database Specialist 1D0-441: This exam contains 54 questions.All questions are multiple choice, and you should correctly answer at least 41 questions (75%) within 75 minutes to pass the test.Also, you should confirm the latest exam details by visiting the CIW website or from the exam testing center, as these requirements can be changed.
Certifications
The CIW 1D0-441 exam is a part of the following certifications:

Master CIW Enterprise Developer
CIW Certified Instructor

Master CIW Administrator

admin — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:14:31 +0000

The Master CIW Administrator certification is a vendor neutral certification, which measures your skills as an Internet Web Server Administrator.This is an advanced level certification. It is very much beneficial if you are interested in network administration and server administration, as various organizations are looking for networking professionals and paying them a good salary.

The job roles for Master CIW Administrator include Network Administration, Server Administration, Intranet administration and Firewall Administration, etc. As these job roles are very challenging and technical, companies require proficient networking professionals in this field. So, the Master CIW Administration certification will definitely help you prepare for these job roles.

The Master CIW Administrator certification validates your skills in configuring, managing, troubleshooting, and implementing security methods in business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce. Now a days, electronic commerce or Internet marketing plays a vital role in business organizations where marketing is done through the Internet globally.As the name suggests, in the business-to-business concept, sale and purchase of goods is done from one business organization to another. In the business-to-consumer concept,sale and purchase is done between consumers and organizations.Your responsibility will be to configure and deploy e-business solution servers.

To achieve the Master CIW Administrator certification, you have to pass the following four exams:

1D0-510 CIW Foundation exam
1D0-450 CIW Server Administrator exam
1D0-460 CIW Internetworking Professional exam
1D0-470 Security Professional exam

CIW Professional Certification

admin — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:59:57 +0000

CIW Professional Certification is a vendor neutral and mid-level certification. It validates the knowledge and advanced skills of Internet professionals. It is a very important certification, as it is one of the routes to pursue more advanced level CIW certifications. Therefore, achieving this certification provides you twin benefits. Firstly, you become a CIW Professional, and then you are eligible for other advanced level CIW certifications.

After benefiting from this certification, you become qualified for certain job roles, such as Web site designer, server administrator, application developer and database administrator. You may be well aware of the fact that the Internet and Web applications are developing at a very rapid speed. So, there is every opportunity of getting a lucrative job in this field. Designing and application development is the basic requirement for Web development. Your creativity and innovative thinking will also definitely add value to it.

Exams required

To achieve the CIW Professional certificationyou are required to pass the 1D0-510 CIW foundation exam and any of the following eight exams:

1D0-420 or 1D0-520 CIW Site Designer
1D0-425 or 1D0-525 CIW E-commerce Designer
1D0-450 CIW Server Administrator
1D0-460 CIW Internetworking Professional
1D0-470 CIW Security Professional
1D0-430 CIW Application Developer
1D0-441 CIW Database Specialist
1D0-442 CIW Enterprise Specialist

Master CIW Website Manager

admin — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:25:42 +0000

Web Technologies are becoming increasingly important in today’s highly competitive world. Many business organizations are using Web applications to optimize their business processes. If you want to opt for a career in the application of Website development, it is a good idea to start from right now. There are many courses available for becoming an expert in Web technologies. The Master CIW Website Manager certification is a very important IT certification, which covers various job roles, such as Webmasters, Web administrators and Internet Project managers.

Many MNC’s are hiring a large number of Webmasters and Internet Project managers and giving them a good salary too. The certification validates your expertise in managing and maintaining Websites and Web servers for businesses. The job roles are very interesting and you have to be creative and innovative while implementing your applications.

Achieving the Master CIW Web site Manager certification provides you twin benefits. When you achieve this certification, you also get the CIW Associate and CIW Professional certifications.
The following exams are required for achieving this certification:
1D0-510 CIW Foundations exam
1D0-420 CIW Site Designer exam
1D0-450 CIW Server Administrator exam
1D0-435 CIW JavaScript Fundamentals exam
1D0-437 CIW Perl Fundamentals exam
You need to pass all these five exams to achieve the Master CIW Website Manager certification.

1D0-441 CIW Database Specialist

admin — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:47:12 +0000

Information about the exam

The prerequisite for the exam is CIW Association certification. You need to have excellent and analytical skills as well as communication and interpersonal abilities for taking the 1D0-441 exam. The exam is appropriate for those who have a thorough understanding of database fundamentals.

CIW Database Specialist 1D0-441: This exam contains 54 questions. All questions are multiple choice, and you should correctly answer at least 41 questions (75%) within 75 minutes to pass the test. Also, you should confirm the latest exam details by visiting the CIW website or from the exam testing center, as these requirements can be changed.

Certifications
The CIW 1D0-441 exam is a part of the following certifications:

Master CIW Enterprise Developer
CIW Certified Instructor

1D0-470 Security Professional

admin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:59:21 +0000

Introduction
Does 1D0-470 exam is related with e-commerce technology? Yes it’s true. As the name suggests it is electronic commerce technology where business is done with the help of internet. As we know that internet technologies are mostly used all over the world in business and other areas to connect from one part of the world to another part of the world.
The 1D0-470 exam is designed to measure your abilities in implementing security methods in business-to-business and business to consumer e-commerce. So your main job is to applying security methods into the e-commerce applications. After passing this exam you will become CIW Security Professional. The exam is also essential for you if you want to be CIW Professional, CIW certified instructor, CIW Security Analyst, and Master CIW Administrator certification.

The 1D0-470 exam prepares you for various job roles such as Network Administrators, Server Administrators, Intranet Administrators, or Firewall Administrators. The exam focuses on technologies: implementing e-business security policies, identifying security threats, developing countermeasures using firewall systems, and attack-recognition technologies, and managing the deployment of security solutions.

Information about the exam
There is no prerequisite test for 1D0-470 exam however it is suggested that candidates take CIW exams sequentially.

Exam topics
The exam is divided into 3 broad topics

Network Security and Firewalls: contains 22 questions.
Operating Systems Security: contains 16 questions.
Security Auditing, Attacks and Threat Analysis: contains 22 questions.

The exam consists of total 60 questions. All the questions are multiple choice and should correctly answer at least 45 questions (75%) within 75 minutes to pass the test. And in each individual topic you have to score 70% to pass. Also, you should confirm the latest exam details by visiting the CIW website or from the exam testing center, because these requirements can be changed.

Certifications
The exam is a part of following certifications:

CIW Certified Instructor.
Master CIW Administrator
CIW Security Analyst.
CIW Professional

1D0-430 CIW Application Developer

admin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:59:12 +0000

Introduction

The 1D0-430 exam is designed to measure your abilities in Web development. Web development is a process related to developing websites on world wide web and intranet.Web development includes many applications such as web designing, web server applications, web content development. As you know web technologies are growing day by day now a days. Many new and interesting technogies are emerging related with web development. So there are also many job opportunities emerging in this field. In certain business organizations web development team consists hundreds of people. If you want to do something creative and innovative this exam is a right choice for you.
After passing 1D0-430 exam you will become CIW Professional. This test is also essential for you if you want to pursue Master CIW Enterprise Developer or CIW Certified Instructor.

The exam prepares you for various job roles such as Web developer,Web designer.The person will be responsible for implementing the front end of the system’s architecture.The exam focuses on technologies such as Web applications, implements applications using component technologies.

Information about the exam

The CIW Associate certification is prerequisite for this exam.

Exam topics

The exam is divided into two broad topics:

Fundamental of CGI Using Perl: contains 30 questions.
Dynamic Server Pages contains: 30 questions.

The Exam presents you 60 questions. All the questions are multiple choice and should correctly answer at least 45 questions (75%) within 75 minutes and you have to get 70% in each individual topic. Also, you should confirm the latest exam details by visiting the CIW website or from the exam testing center, because these requirements can be changed.

Certifications

The 1DO-430 exam is part of following certifications:

Master CIW Certified Instructor
Master CIW Enterprise Developer

1D0-470 CIW Application Developer.

admin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:50:53 +0000

Introduction
The 1DO-470 exam is designed to measure your abilities in Web development. Web development is a process related to developing websites on world wide web and intranet. Web development includes many applications such as web designing, web server applications, web content development. As you know web technologies are growing day by day now a days. Many new and interesting technogies are emerging related with web development. So there are also many job opportunities emerging in this field. In certain business organizations web development team consists hundreds of people. If you want to do something creative and innovative this exam is a right choice for you.
After passing 1D0-430 exam you will become CIW Professional. This test is also essential for you if you want to pursue Master CIW Enterprise Developer or CIW Certified Instructor.

Information about the exam
The CIW Associate certification is prerequisite for this exam.
Exam topics
The exam is divided into two broad topics:

Fundamental of CGI Using Perl: contains 30 questions.
Dynamic Server Pages contains: 30 questions.

Master CIW Certified Instructor
Master CIW Enterprise Developer

1D0-460 CIW Internetworking Professional

admin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:25:48 +0000

Introduction
The 1D0-460 CIW Internetworking Professional exam is a advanced level CIW certification. The exam is designed to measure your skills in defining network architecture so if you are interested to work as a network architect this exam is a right choice for you. The exam also measures skills such as identifying infrastructure components; monitoring and network performance;and designing and managing troubleshooting enterprise TCP/IP networks.
After passing this exam you will become a CIW Professional.The exam is also essential for you if you want to pursue CIW Certified Instructor and Master CIW Administrator certifications.

Besides network architect the 1D0-460 exam prepares you for various job roles such as network engineers, internetworking engineers, LAN/WAN administrators, system administrators, system managers, and administrators.

Information about the exam

The Prerequisite for the 1D0-460 exam is the CIW Associate(1D0-510) and CIW Server Administrator(1D0-450)exams.

Exam topics

TCP/IP Internetworking: contains 30 questions.
Advanced TCP/IP Concepts and Practices: contains 30 questions.

The exam presents you 60 questions. All the questions are multiple choice and should correctly answer at least 45 questions (75%) within 75 minutes and in each individual topic you should get 70% to pass the test. Also, you should confirm the latest exam details by visiting the CIW website or from the exam testing center, because these requirements can be changed.

Certifications

The 1D0-460 exam is part of following certifications:

CIW Certified Instructor.
Master CIW Administrator.

1D0-450 CIW Server Administrator exam

admin — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:35:44 +0000

Introduction
What is 1D0-450 exam? The 1D0-450 CIW Server Administrator exam is designed to measure your specific Internet skills as a Web Server Administrator. The prerequisite for this exam is CIW Associate certification.

The exam provides credit to

Master CIW Administrator.
Master CIW Web site Manager.
CIW Certified Instructor.

Upon passing this exam, you will become a CIW Server Administrator. This test
prepares you for various job roles such as Network Administrators, Server
Administrators, Intranet Administrators or Firewall Administrators.

Information about the exam

The exam is divided into two modules:

Internet System Management: contains 30 questions.
Advanced Internet Systems Managements: contains 30 questions.

The exam contains total 60 questions. To pass the exam you have to correctly answer at least 45 of the 60 questions. The passing percentage is 75% or greater. The exam duration is 75 minutes.

1D0-410 CIW Foundation exam

admin — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:30:32 +0000

Introduction
The 1D0-410 is a core exam for every CIW certification.This exam is a first step to achieve advanced CIW certifications. Once you qualify it you will become CIW Associate and can pursue advanced CIW certifications such as CIW Master or CIW Professional Certification.

The exam prepares you for various job roles such as Web Masters, Graphic Designers, Server Administrators. As the name suggests it is a foundation exam and is created to validates your basic knowledge for Internet technologies. The exam also tests how to design and implement Website and Web-based solutions using HTML technology.

Information about the exam
This exam is retired now and new CIW foundation test 1D0-510 has replaced this exam. However CIW v4 Associate Certification is still eligible for higher level certifications.

Exam topics
The exam is divided into three broad topics.

Internet Fundamentals; containing 24 questions.
Web page Authoring Fundamentals; containing 12 questions.
Networking Fundamentals; containing 24 questions.
The exam consists of total 60 questions. All the questions are multiple choice and should correctly answer at least 45questions (75%) within 90 minutes to pass the test. Also, you should confirm the latest exam details by visiting the CIW website or from the exam testing center, because these requirements can be changed.

Certifications
The CIW 1D0-410 exam is part of following certifications.

CIW Associate
CIW Professional
Master CIW Administrator
Master CIW Web Site Manager
Master CIW Designer
Master CIW Enterprise Developer
Master CIW Instructor