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Course Description: | Course Description: | ||
- | IT Project Management: Fundamentals overviews the basics of project management. It provides the theory | + | This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, |
- | on project teams. | + | |
- | This course | + | This course |
- | Target Student: | + | **Product Alignment** |
- | Students enrolling in this course should be planning to lead a project (primary audience) or | + | VMware ESXi 7.0 |
- | serve on a project team (secondary audience). | + | VMware vCenter Server 7.0 |
- | Prerequisites: | + | **Objectives** |
- | To ensure your success, we recommend | + | By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives: |
- | The basics are covered in the our OCDL course. | + | Describe |
+ | Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure | ||
- | [[http:// | + | Describe the benefits and capabilities of VMware Skyline |
- | Open Computer Driving License (OCDL)]] | + | |
+ | Install and configure ESXi hosts | ||
+ | Deploy and configure VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ | ||
- | Benefits: | + | Use VMware vSphere® Client™ to manage the vCenter Server inventory and the vCenter Server configuration |
- | Students will learn how to use project management techniques to plan, organize, control, | + | Manage, monitor, back up, and protect vCenter Server Appliance |
- | document, and close out their projects successfully and with minimum risk. | + | Create virtual networks |
- | Performance Based Objectives : | + | Describe the storage technologies supported by vSphere |
- | Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: | + | Configure virtual storage using iSCSI and NFS storage |
- | • Discuss the phases of the Project Management Life Cycle and a project manager' | + | Create |
- | role in each phase. | + | |
- | • List and discuss basic project success criteria and common reasons for project | + | Use the vSphere Client to create virtual machines, templates, clones, |
- | failure. | + | |
- | • Discuss techniques for setting up a strong project team. | + | Create |
- | • List and discuss elements of a Risk Management Plan. | + | Manage virtual machine resource use |
- | • Discuss techniques for planning | + | Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion® |
- | Work Breakdown Structure | + | Create |
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- | • Identify the Critical Path for completing a project on schedule. | + | Discuss solutions |
- | • List and discuss the cost elements that should be included in a project budget. | + | Use VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ to perform upgrades to ESXi hosts and virtual machines |
- | • Discuss techniques for controlling for deviation from budgets and schedules. | + | Certifications |
- | • Discuss key elements of project management communications and reporting tools. | + | Attending this course meets the training requirement to achieve the following certification: |
- | • Discuss key activities of project closeout. | + | VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) |
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- | ===== Analysis of Requirements ===== | ||
+ | **Target Student:** | ||
- | Match competence | + | Students enrolling in this course should be either system administrators or planning |
- | Evaluate a project business case | + | **Prerequisites: |
+ | To ensure your success, we recommend you have some working knowledge of computer usage. | ||
- | ===== Stakeholders ===== | + | The basics are covered in the our OCDL course. |
- | Identify and assess stakeholders | + | [[http:// |
+ | Open Computer Driving License (OCDL)]] | ||
- | Stakeholders | + | Also basic system administration knowledge of a computers, networks and operating systems is also a prerequisite for this course. |
- | Resource management | ||
- | Teams | ||
- | ===== Scope ===== | ||
- | | + | **Outline** |
- | Define product scope | ||
- | Project charter | + | **Course Introduction** |
- | Product | + | Introductions |
- | Decompose product scope into stakeholder requirements | + | Course objectives |
- | Create WBS and dictionary | + | **Introduction to vSphere |
- | Work breakdown structure | + | Explain basic virtualization concepts |
+ | Describe how vSphere fits into the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure | ||
- | ===== Risk Management ===== | + | Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, |
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- | Risk register | + | Recognize the user interfaces for accessing the vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts |
- | SWOT analysis | + | Describe the ESXi host architecture |
- | Create risk register | + | Navigate the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to configure an ESXi host |
- | Risk identification and management | + | Recognize ESXi host user account best practices |
- | ICT Risk Management | + | Install an ESXi host |
- | Project Risk | + | Use VMware Host Client™ to configure ESXi host settings |
+ | Describe how to proactively manage your vSphere environment using VMware Skyline | ||
+ | **Virtual Machines** | ||
- | ===== The Project Team ===== | + | Create and provision a virtual machine |
+ | Explain the importance of VMware Tools™ | ||
- | The Teamwork Challenge | + | Install VMware Tools |
- | Selecting Team Members | + | Identify the files that make up a VM |
- | The Team Charter | + | Recognize the components of a VM |
+ | Recognize virtual devices supported by a VM | ||
- | ==== Communication ==== | + | Describe the benefits and use cases for containers |
+ | Identify the parts of a container system | ||
- | Develop a communication plan | + | **vCenter Server** |
- | Responsibility assignment (RACI) matrix | + | Describe the vCenter Server architecture |
- | Run charts | + | Discuss how ESXi hosts communicate with vCenter Server |
- | Project Cycle Optimisation (PCO) | + | Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance |
- | Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (An approach for developing common understanding and consensus amongst project participants and stakeholders as to how the project will achieve its goal) | + | Use vSphere Client |
- | Logical framework approach | + | Add data center, organizational objects, and hosts to vCenter Server |
- | ===== Project management activities ===== | + | Use roles and permissions to enable users to access objects in the vCenter Server inventory |
- | Project management is composed of several different types of activities such as: | + | Back up vCenter Server Appliance |
- | Analysis and design of objectives and events | + | Monitor vCenter Server tasks, |
- | Planning the work according to the objectives | + | |
- | Assessing and controlling risk (or Risk Management) | + | |
- | Estimating resources | + | |
- | Allocation of resources | + | |
- | Organizing the work | + | |
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- | Acquiring human and material resources | + | |
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- | Assigning tasks | + | |
- | Directing activities | + | |
- | Controlling project execution | + | |
- | Tracking and reporting progress (Management information system) | + | |
- | Analyzing the results based on the facts achieved | + | |
- | Defining the products of the project | + | |
- | Forecasting future trends in the project | + | |
- | Quality Management | + | |
- | Issues management | + | |
- | Issue solving | + | |
- | Defect prevention | + | |
- | Identifying, managing & controlling changes | + | |
- | Project closure (and project debrief) | + | |
- | Communicating to stakeholders | + | |
+ | Use VMware vCenter Server® High Availability to protect a vCenter Server Appliance | ||
+ | Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks | ||
+ | Create and manage standard switches | ||
- | ===== Project management artifacts ===== | + | Describe the virtual switch connection types |
- | The following documents serve to clarify objectives and deliverables and to align sponsors, clients, and project team's expectations. | + | Configure virtual switch security, traffic-shaping, and load-balancing policies |
- | Project Charter | + | Compare vSphere distributed switches and standard switches |
- | Preliminary Scope Statement / Statement of work | + | |
- | Business case / Feasibility Study | + | |
- | Scope Statement / Terms of reference | + | |
- | Project management plan / Project Initiation Document | + | |
- | Work Breakdown Structure | + | |
- | Change Control Plan | + | |
- | Risk Management Plan | + | |
- | Risk Breakdown Structure | + | |
- | Communications Plan | + | |
- | Governance Model | + | |
- | Risk Register | + | |
- | Issue Log | + | |
- | Action Item List | + | |
- | Resource Management Plan | + | |
- | Project Schedule | + | |
- | Project Status Report | + | |
- | Responsibility assignment (RACI) matrix | + | |
- | Database of lessons learned | + | |
- | Stakeholder Analysis | + | |
- | Document Management | + | |
- | These documents are normally hosted on a shared resource (i.e., intranet web page) and are available for review by the project' | + | **Configuring |
- | ===== Project Management tools ===== | + | Identify storage protocols and storage device types |
- | Project Management tools include following: | + | Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage |
- | ==== Financial tools ==== | + | Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores |
+ | Explain how multipathing works with iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre Channel storage | ||
+ | Recognize the components of a VMware vSAN™ configuration | ||
- | Earned value management | + | **Virtual Machine Management** |
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- | Monte Carlo methods in finance | + | |
+ | Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual machines | ||
+ | Modify and manage virtual machines | ||
- | ==== General management tools ==== | + | Create a content library and deploy virtual machines from templates in the library |
- | * Online tools to run a Project Health Check (Ph-Check tool), take a baseline or checkpoint, or to generate highlight, or status reports. | + | Use customization specification files to customize |
- | ==== Scheduling charts ==== | + | Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage vMotion migrations |
+ | Describe the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility feature | ||
+ | Create and manage virtual machine snapshots | ||
- | PERT charts | + | Examine the features and functions of VMware vSphere® Replication™ |
- | Gantt charts | + | |
- | Event Chain Diagrams | + | |
+ | Describe the benefits of VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Data Protection | ||
- | ===== Related lists ===== | + | **Resource Management and Monitoring** |
+ | Discuss CPU and memory concepts in a virtualized environment | ||
- | Glossary | + | Describe what overcommitment |
- | List of management topics | + | |
- | List of production topics | + | |
- | List of project management software | + | |
- | List of Theory of Constraints topics | + | |
- | Timeline of project management | + | |
- | Establish quality metrics | + | Describe methods for optimizing CPU and memory usage |
- | Create an initial schedule | + | |
- | Effort and duration | + | |
- | Estimating effort | + | |
- | Level of accuracy in estimates | + | |
- | Team-based estimation | + | |
- | Scheduling | + | |
- | Estimating cost | + | |
- | Review and disposition a change request | + | |
- | Change management | + | |
- | Plan a project rollout | + | |
- | Testing | + | |
- | Release management | + | |
- | Use metrics to reassess the business case | + | |
- | Delivering business value | + | |
+ | Use various tools to monitor resource use | ||
- | ===== The Project Management Life Cycle ===== | + | Create and use alarms to report certain conditions or events |
+ | **vSphere Clusters** | ||
- | What is a Project? | + | Describe the functions of a vSphere DRS cluster |
- | The Project Management Life Cycle | + | Create a vSphere DRS cluster |
- | The Role of the Project Manager | + | Monitor a vSphere cluster configuration |
- | ===== Setting Up for Success ===== | + | Describe options |
+ | Explain the vSphere HA architecture | ||
- | The Meaning of Success | + | Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster |
- | What Happens in the Initiation Phase? | + | Examine |
- | Project Definition and Scope | + | Describe the function of the vSphere® Cluster Service |
- | Putting Together a Statement of Work | + | **vSphere Lifecycle Management** |
- | The Project Charter | + | Recognize the importance of vCenter Server Update Planner |
+ | Describe how VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ works | ||
+ | Describe how to update ESXi hosts using baselines | ||
+ | Validate ESXi host compliance using a cluster image | ||
+ | Describe how to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware | ||
- | ===== The Project Team ===== | + | Describe VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ |
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- | The Work Breakdown Structure | + | |
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- | Work Package Sequencing | + | |
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- | ===== The Project Schedule ===== | + | |
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- | The Scheduling Process | + | |
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- | Time Estimates | + | |
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- | ===== The Project Budget ===== | + | |
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- | What is a Budget? | + | |
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- | Creating a Preliminary Budget | + | |
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- | Budget | + | |
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- | ===== Project Tracking and Control ===== | + | |
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- | Moving the Project Forward | + | |
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- | Monitoring for Project Progress | + | |
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- | Earned Value Analysis | + | |
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- | Getting Back on Track | + | |
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- | ===== Project Reports ===== | + | |
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- | Communications Overview | + | |
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- | Project Performance Reports | + | |
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- | Project Change Requests | + | |
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- | ===== Closing ===== | + | |
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- | Close out a project | + | |
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- | Elements of Closeout | + | |
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- | Evaluation of People and Projects | + | |
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- | ===== Integration Management ===== | + | |
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- | ===== Time Management ===== | + | |
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- | ===== Compensation Management ===== | + | |
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- | ===== Cost Management ===== | + | |
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- | ===== Quality Management ===== | + | |
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- | ===== Human Resource Management ===== | + | |
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- | ===== Communications Management ===== | + | |
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- | ===== Procurement Management ===== | + | |
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- | ===== Stakeholder Management ===== | + | |
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- | ===== Agile ===== | + | |
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- | ===== Scrum ===== | + | |
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- | ===== Methodology ===== | + | |
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- | * Learn about project management, organizational project management, and project management maturity | + | |
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- | * Understand the essentials for effectively managing a project | + | |
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- | * Learn a simplified project methodology, | + | |
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- | * Learn how to start the project right and continue on the right path toward achieving project strategic objectives | + | |
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- | * Apply the learning to develop the PM and Project Detailed Plans | + | |
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- | * Understand project implementation, | + | |
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- | ===== Certifications ===== | + | |
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- | PMP | + | |
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- | prince2 | + | |
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- | program_management | + | |
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- | scrum | + | |
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- | **APM Certifications ** | + | |
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- | Project, Program & Portfolio Management | + | |
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- | PMI Certifications | + | |
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- | 1 hour of teacher | + | 40 hours of teacher |
- | If participants | + | Up to 20 participants. |
- | Example : If a group of 10 participants attend a 1 hour discussion, only 6 minutes of teacher time shall be counted from each participant' | + | 10 Assignments |
- | 23 Assignments | + | 10 Quizzes |
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- | 23 Quizzes | + | |
3 Vivas | 3 Vivas | ||
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- | PKR 50,000 per participant | + | PKR 100,000 per participant |
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- | Limited time and limited intake offer | + | |
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- | Inside Pakistan : PKR 5,000 | + | |
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- | Outside Pakistan PKR 6,000 | + | |
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- | Duration : 2 Months maximum from the start. | + | |
- | This course requires about 115 hours of study. This is about 2 hours per day for 60 days. | + | Duration : 5 days. 9 to 5 classroom. |
- | {{:atrc_website: | + | Tentative time for course to run : October or November 2022 |
- | Financial aid and student loans also available for cases which need it. Anyone can apply. | ||
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