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application-tuning modules that allow participants to collect and analyze input/output (I/O) traces, identify performance bottlenecks for elimination, code enhancement suggestions and assist with any needed retesting. Intransa Vice President Jeff Whitney said the company had to work its way up to a 10-GbE program. “We had to do a number of certifications before we could actually launch the product because we discovered that 1 GbE IP SAN [storage area network] performs very differently than 10 GbE does,” Whitney said. “That was kind of a shock to everybody — nobody in the industry was prepared to say that it was going to be different. But because of the way operating systems work, whether Linux or Microsoft or whatever, they were often single-threaded and couldn’t take advantage of the 10-GbE efforts.” Program Updates Transcender, a division of Kaplan IT Learning, has added performance-based simulations to its practice exams for the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 You don’t have to research IP storage on your own. Just type it into CertScope, which yields a list of 52 CertMag articles and more than 168 Web sites. Implementation and Maintenance certification exam (70-431). Each Transcender practice exam includes six simulations that require execution of IT tasks in a simulated work environment, designed to emulate what an IT professional experiences in the actual test. The tests, in turn, are intended to effectively evaluate real-world competency. There are six major learning objectives within 70-431: installing and configuring SQL Server 2005, implementing high availability and disaster recovery, supporting data consumers, maintaining databases, monitoring and troubleshooting SQL Server performance, and creating and implementing database objects. 8 – Daniel Margolis, dmargolis@certmag.com ONLINE DEGREES IN TECHNOLOGY Use your IT CERTIFICATIONS to accelerate your DEGREE ONLINE. Call us today at 1-800-375-8892 or visit us online at Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, Cisco, Comp TIA, SAS, PMI, GIAC or (ISC)2 certiﬁcations could waive up to 25% of your fully accredited bachelor’s degree with: Flexible ONLINE learning Up to 9 certiﬁcations built in at no extra cost Programs in Networks, Databases, Security, Software and IT Management www.wgu.edu/cm14 07-17676_WGU_ad_SLC_IT_Bars_7x5_4c_[01].indd 1 8/23/07 5:33:41 PM http://www.certmag.com http://www.wgu.edu/cm14 http://www.wgu.edu/cm14

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