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Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is one of the most reputed and recognized professional qualification for project managers. This certification is offered by Project Management Institute (PMI)® and based on based on Project Management Institute, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (PMBOK® Guide)—Sixth Edition, Project Management Institute, Inc., 2013

We conduct PMP training program based on the Project Management Institute`s “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge” (PMBOK® Guide – 6th Edition). Professionals will train you about the project lifecycle, process groups, knowledge areas and equip you with the functional knowledge and business insights to lead and manage projects effectively. The Project manager`s role is to complete the project on time (schedule), within budget (cost) by meeting all the requirements (scope).
Our 4 day PMP® training program will fully prepare you to pass your certification exam and also give you an in-depth knowledge about the various and best Project Management best practices.

This preparation course has been updated and in line with the latest PMP exam .

  • Gain knowledge of Project Management based on the PMBOK® Guide - 6th Edition and real-life Project Management practices
  • Know how to use the tools and techniques you learned while studying for the PMP® exam
  • Apply Project Management techniques useful in the real world
  • Share a common lexicon of Project Management terms and principles
  • Apply project management terminologies and concepts
  • Lead Provide faster solutions to clients and ensure open communication between stakeholders and team members
  • Lead and motivate the team to perform better
  • Ensure compliance, reduce risk factors and save on time and costs
  • Attempt a first time pass of PMI's Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification Exam
  • Study PMBOK®Guide's Five Process Groups, Ten Knowledge Areas, And The Area Of Professional and Social Responsibility

PMP certification is best recommended for experienced Project Managers or Project Leads with appreciable experience handling and directing projects.. It doesn't restrict to any domain and applicable to all vertical. The course is best suited for:

  • Project Managers
  • Associate/Assistant Project Managers
  • Team Leads/Team Managers
  • Project Executives/Project Engineers
  • Software Developers
  • Any professional aspiring to be a Project Manager

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Course Overview

The Designing and Implementing Cisco Unified Communications on Unified Computing Systems (DIUCUCS) Specialist gains knowledge and skills to implement Cisco Unified Communications applications on Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). This certification offers familiarity with Cisco UCS architecture, VMware implementation, BIOS settings, Cisco UCS Manager, and Integrated Controller. The specialist will also gain skills to ensure that Cisco Collaboration applications are properly deployed and cared for on the platform.

Course Agenda


Review of Data Center Unified Computing Implementation E-Learning
Brief Survey of Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Implementation E-Learning

Installation of the Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers
Updating Firmware Components of the Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers

Cisco IMC Configuration
Configuring Cisco IMC
Provisioning Server Hardware with Cisco IMC
Lab

Cisco UCS B-Series Hardware and Management
Describing Cisco UCS B-Series Hardware Components
Assembling B-Series Architecture and Features
Installing Cisco UCS B-Series Hardware

Cisco UCS Connectivity Configuration and Management
Configuring Cisco UCS B-Series Physical Connectivity
Exploring the Cisco UCS B-Series User Interfaces
Configuring Compute Node LAN Connectivity
Configuring Compute Node SAN Connectivity
Lab

Server Resources Implementation
Creating Identity and Resource Pools
Creating Service Profiles
Creating Service Profile Templates and Cloning Service Profiles
Managing Service Profiles
Lab

Virtual Server Networking
Evaluating the Cisco Nexus 1000V
Working with VMware Ethernet Networking
Characterizing Cisco Nexus 1000V Architecture
Installing and Configuring the Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch
Configuring Basic Cisco Nexus 1000V Networking
Configuring Cisco UCS Manager for VMware PTS
Lab
Cisco Unified Computing System Management and Maintenance
Implementing Cisco Unified Computing System Startup and Shutdown Procedures
Configuring Role-Based Access Control
Backing Up and Restoring the Cisco UCS Manager Database
Managing High Availability
Monitoring System Events

Managing and Upgrading Cisco UCS B-Series Firmware
Lab




Cisco UCS Administration Exam and Certification in



Prerequisites:

The criteria stipulated by PMI ®  clearly states the education background and number of hours of experience required in order to become eligible to apply for PMP ®  exam. For more details, please visit this  link.

PMP® Certification Requirements

Educational Background Project Management Experience
Secondary degree (High School) Minimum of five years/60 months of unique, non-overlapping professional management experience during which at least 7,500 hours were spent leading and directing project tasks
Four-year degree(Bachelor's) Minimum three years/36 months unique, non-overlapping
professional project management experience during which at least 4,500 hours were spent leading and directing project tasks

You need to fill-in the PMP application with the relevant information about work experience. The PMP exam needs to be completed in 4 hours, which will be a 200 multiple-choice questions. Once certified, You will have to earn 60 professional development units (PDUs) every three years to maintain PMP

Start by confirming if you are complying with the eligibility criteria to qualify for the PMP certification examination. Ensure the information filled is right and relevant. Once submitted, you cannot do any correction. So take time, inspect and edit before you submit. Only when you fully confident about the correctness of the information, submit the application. The email you mention is critical as this will be only point of contact for the PMI® to reach out to you. PMI® will post your reminders about necessary information to be communicated. You will have to schedule the examination which needs to be taken with one-year after approval of your application.

Its subjective and depends much on the audit process. Usually, it would take 5 days to process and approve the application. In case, PMI® decides to audit, the duration for approval might stretch.

The correctness and conformance will be checked in the audit process PMI® selects on a random basis and if your application comes up for audit, you may need to provide the documents requested as evidence, like certificate copies, proof of work experience , etc., and hence it is strongly recommended that you keep a copy of all the documents submitted along with the examination application.

Your manager or supervisor possessing the recommended experience can endorse your project experience.

postal mail or express courier service is the most preferred means to post the requested audited documents to the PMI®'s official address. Kindly post all the required documents in a single envelope and avoid multiple posts. Please note that PMI® will not accept documents sent through fax machine or emails.

From the time of communication by PMI®, you need to post all the required documents within 90 days.

In the event of a failed audit, the certification fee (minus a processing fee) will be refunded. The Certification Department will take further action on a case-by-case basis. If you fail the PMP® application audit, the PMI® will deduct $100 from your application fee, and you will receive a refund of the remaining fees paid.

The exam application fees must be paid during the submission of the application. The Audit is at the discretion of PMI, and happens during processing of applicant’s documentation.

You can request for refund 30 days before the expiry of the exam date. PMI® will deduct USD 100 as processing fee and refund the rest.

You can make as many as 3 attempts in one calendar year as allowed by PMI®.

Usually it takes about 4 to 6 weeks to receive the certificate from the date of passing the exam.

We offer a successful completion of training programs which will credit 35 professional development units (PDUs), and fulfill a key prerequisite for qualifying for PMP® Exam.

PMP® Certification is valid for three years.

As many as 60 PDUs (professional development units) are required to maintain PMP® certification.

You can attend Online Classroom:
You must finish one complete batch and score minimum of 60% in at least one simulation test conducted by us.

Online Self learning or eLearning.
You must complete 85% of the course as a minimum and score minimum of 60% in at least one simulation test .




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Q: What is Cisco Unified Computing System?
Ans: Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) unites physical and virtual computational and network resources into a single system. UCS is a set of pre-integrated data center components that comprises blade servers, adapters, fabric interconnects, and extenders that are integrated under a common embedded management system. This approach results in far fewer system components than comparable data center platforms.

Q: Which operating systems (OS) are supported on UCS?
Ans: UCS blade servers are certified for following OS:

  1. Microsoft Windows Server 2008
  2. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2
  3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3
  4. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8
  5. Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
  6. VMware vSphere 4
  7. VMware Infrastructure 3.5 Update 4

Q: Which hypervisors are supported on UCS?
Ans: Cisco UCS supports several hypervisors including VMware ESX, ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and others. Guest operating systems are limited to 255 GB of vRAM and 8 virtual processors in vSphere 4.x, upgraded to 1 TB of vRAM and 32 vCPUs in vSphere 5.0. Additionally, the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Cards incorporate VM-FEX technology that gives virtual machines direct access to the hardware for improved performance and network visibility.

Q: From where to download OS patches and drivers?
Ans: You should download OS patches from the respective vendors. Drivers that are not part of OS and supplied by Cisco can be downloaded from cisco.com.

Q: Does UCS support netflow?
Ans: No, UCS does not support netflow.

Q: Can I use a Nexus 5000 as a UCS 6100 fabric interconnect?
Ans: No, Nexus 5000 is a general purpose L2 switch and UCS 6100 series is an integral part of the unified computing system. The software that runs on the UCS 6100 is different from the Nexus 5000, as the UCS 6100 has both control and management planes.

Q: What are UCS Blade Servers and Rack Servers?
Ans: UCS Blade Servers sit inside the UCS chassis and are managed using UCS manager. UCS Rack Servers work independently and do not require the full UCS infrastructure; however they can also be integrated in your existing UCS infrastructure. For a full list of differences between UCS Blade Servers and Rack Servers click here.

Q: What is UCS Express?
Ans: UCS express is compact, all-in-one computing and networking system targeted at branch offices. UCS express is build on the concept of lean branch office which reduces the branch-office infrastructure footprint, equipment and operating costs, and management complexity. Main components of UCS express are ISR Generation2 series router and Services Ready Engine (SRE) multipurpose x86 blade servers. Cisco ISR G2 functions as a blade-server enclosure for SRE blade servers, which in themselves run branch office applications like DNS, DHCP, etc. The system comes with VMware vSphere Hypervisor for virtualization and CIMC Express for blade server management. For more information click here.

Q: What are UCS E-series servers?
Ans: UCS E-Series Server modules are next-generation, power-optimized, x86, Intel® Xeon® 64-bit blade servers designed to be deployed in Cisco Integrated Services Routers Generation 2 (ISR G2). The Cisco UCS E-Series Servers extend the Cisco UCS product portfolio to meet the needs of customers who want to deploy a virtualization-ready computing infrastructure in the branch-office environment while maintaining a lean branch-office architecture. E-series servers are a good replacement for UCS express SRE. For more info on E-series servers click here.

Q: How are the ports mapped from server to fabric interconnect in UCS?
Ans: Port mapping from server to fabric interconnect is automatic in UCS. If the number of links from fabric extender to fabric interconnect is only one then all of the 8 ports are pinned to it. If the number of links from fabric extender to fabric interconnect is two then ports 1,3,5,7 are pinned to first link and ports 2,4,6,8 are pinned to second link. If the number of links from fabric extender to fabric interconnect is four then ports 1,5 are pinned to first link; port 2,6 are pinned to second link; port 3,7 are pinned to third link; and port 4,8 are pinned to fourth link. Remember that three link topology is not supported in UCS.

Q: What is the maximum number of VLANs supported in UCS?
Ans: As of version 1.3(1), UCS supports up to 512 VLANs. Remember that VLANs 3968 to 4048 are reserved and can not be used.

Q: If I have forgotten UCS password, how to recover it?
Ans: If you have forgotten the password, you can set a new password. Connect to the console of UCS 6100 series fabric interconnect. Reload the fabric interconnect and when it boots up hit ctrl+L or ctrl+shift+R to go to loader prompt then boot the kickstart image; if you have two fabric interconnects connected in HA then first reload the subordinate fabric interconnect and bring it in loader prompt and then reload the primary and bring it in loader prompt, after this load kickstart image on primary. Configure the admin password using "admin-password" command by going to config terminal mode. Now load the system image on the fabric interconnect or if you have HA load system image on the primary fabric interconnect. The password is now set to the new password you have just configured; if you have HA then now you can load the kickstart and system images on the subordinate fabric interconnect.

Q: What is the maximum number of user sessions supported on UCS?
Ans: The maximum number of users that can be created on UCS is 48, this includes any kind of user. The maximum number of GUI sessions (accessing UCS manager via http) supported is 256. The maximum number of CLI sessions (telnet and SSH combined) supported is 32. Remember that CLI and GUI sessions are treated as separate; hence you can have at the max 256 GUI sessions and 32 CLI sessions at the same time.

Q: If the fabric extender is connected to fabric interconnect using 4 links and one of the links fail, what will happen?
Ans: The server interfaces that are affected will either lose connectivity or fail over to another fabric extender, depending if interface is created as a HA interface. UCS M71KR-E/ UCS M71KR-Q Converged network adapter has the capability to fail over Ethernet interfaces if so configured. UCS 82598KR-CI 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter does not have this capability. Fibre Channel interfaces that are pinned to failing fabric extender link will just fail and their HA capability depends purely on host side multipathing driver. If HA/mutipathing is not configured for Ethernet/Fibre Channel then servers connected to the failed link will loose connectivity but the other three links will be working as usual. Remember that no automatic re-pinning will happen. You can manually re-pin the servers using two link topology, since three link topology is not supported.



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  • Kathy Rogers, PMP

       I am a Project Management Professional and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt with extensive experience in Change Management and fundraising. I am a practical, resourceful, energetic educator, Change Manager, fundraiser, project control manager, data scientist, and systems engineer interested in improving processes. I love to teach and to learn. My goal is to continuously improve and learn lessons, to streamline and enhance each participant`s effort, while keeping the experience enjoyable. I am currently studying Cyber Security.   

  • Rufus Alexander, M.B.A., PMP

       I am an energetic Project Management Corporate Trainer with a passion for teaching project management. In 2014, I travelled around the country teaching 4 day workshops in project management based on the generally accepted practices of project management based on "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide)." As a Project Management Professional (PMP), I have developed course curriculum.   



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