Business Analysis Essentials

TOTAL DAYS: 2 | TOTAL HOURS: 14

Business Analysis Foundations

Whether you are new to business analysis, or are experienced and want a more formal approach, it’s essential to know and practice the “basics.” This course provides you with the foundational skills you need to deliver value to your stakeholders and organization. You will learn how to help your business clients articulate their business problem or opportunity, plan business analysis activities, as well as learn the basics of eliciting, analyzing, documenting, managing, and communicating requirements through the life cycle of the project. By grasping these foundational skills, you can contribute significantly to the success of your organization’s projects.

Note: This course has been approved by PMI for 14 PDUs and IIBA for 14 CDUs.

Crystal Reports 2016: Part 1

TOTAL DAYS: 2 | TOTAL HOURS: 13

Crystal Reports 2016: Part 1

Organizations use reporting tools to access data sources and generate customized reports. Crystal Reports® 2016 enhances report building and report processing techniques with a variety of features that add value to a presentation. In this course, you will create a basic report by connecting to a database and modifying the report’s presentation.

Information is critical to making sound business decisions. Data presented without any formatting or structure holds little or no meaning for interpretation. Crystal Reports 2016 helps you build advanced reports with ease, presenting complex information in an understandable way.

This course is the first part of a two-course series that covers the skills needed to gain a foundational understanding of Crystal Reports.
Crystal Reports 2016: Part 1 (this course)
Crystal Reports 2016: Part 2

Completion of this course will earn 1.15 CEUs.

Crystal Reports 2016: Part 2

TOTAL DAYS: 2 | TOTAL HOURS: 13

Crystal Reports 2016: Part 2

Until now, you have used Crystal Reports to build and modify reports. You want to use the advanced functionality of Crystal Reports to generate reports in the format you desire. In this course, you will create complex reports and data sources using the tools in Crystal Reports 2016. You will not only create more sophisticated reports including subreports and cross-tabs, but you will also increase the speed and efficiency of your reports by using SQL queries.

Even though you are familiar with Crystal Reports, you may take some time to study its various tools that enable you to generate reports with the desired data using advanced methods such as SQL querying. This way, you won’t be slowed down by large databases or databases with which you are unfamiliar. By creating sub-reports, crosstabs, and running totals, you will turn raw data into meaningful customized reports that will help your business run more smoothly. If you work with large databases, you may find yourself faced with performance issues. In this course, you will also learn to use tools that can increase the speed with which data is retrieved.

This course is the second part of a two-course series that covers the skills needed to gain a foundational understanding of Crystal Reports.
Crystal Reports 2016: Part 1
Crystal Reports 2016: Part 2 (this course)

Completion of this course will earn 1.15 CEUs.

Crystal Reports 2020: Part 1

TOTAL DAYS: 2 | TOTAL HOURS: 13

Crystal Reports 2020: Part 1

Organizations use reporting tools to access data sources and generate customized reports. SAP Crystal Reports 2020 enhances report building and report processing techniques with a variety of features that add value to a presentation. In this course, you will create a basic report by connecting to a database and modifying the report’s presentation.

Information is critical to making sound business decisions. Data presented without any formatting or structure holds little or no meaning for interpretation. Crystal Reports 2020 helps you build advanced reports with ease, presenting complex information in an understandable way.

This course is the first part of a two-course series that covers the skills needed to gain a foundational understanding of Crystal Reports.
– Crystal Reports 2020: Part 1 (this course)
– Crystal Reports 2020: Part 2

Completion of this course will earn 1.2 CEUs.

Crystal Reports 2020: Part 2

TOTAL DAYS: 2 | TOTAL HOURS: 13

Crystal Reports 2020: Part 2

Until now, you have used SAP Crystal Reports to build and modify reports. You want to use the advanced functionality of Crystal Reports to generate reports in the format you desire. In this course, you will create complex reports and data sources using the tools in Crystal Reports 2020. You will not only create more sophisticated reports, including sub-reports and cross-tabs, but you will also increase the speed and efficiency of your reports by using SQL queries.

Even though you are familiar with Crystal Reports, you may take some time to study its various tools that enable you to generate reports with the desired data using advanced methods such as SQL querying. This way, you won’t be slowed down by large databases or databases with which you are unfamiliar. By creating sub-reports, cross-tabs, and running totals, you will turn raw data into meaningful, customized reports that will help your business run more smoothly. If you work with large databases, you may find yourself faced with performance issues. In this course, you will also learn to use tools that can increase the speed with which data is retrieved.

This course is the second part of a two-course series that covers the skills needed to gain a foundational understanding of Crystal Reports.
– Crystal Reports 2020: Part 1
– Crystal Reports 2020: Part 2 (this course)

Completion of this course will earn 1.2 CEUs.

Integrated Project Management 2016

TOTAL DAYS: 3 | TOTAL HOURS: 19.5

Integrated Project Management 2016

Integrated Project Management combines the basics of project management theory with practical application in Microsoft Project 2016. By continually applying core methodologies in decision making and planning, students will be able to efficiently select and apply the tools in the software application to manage projects that meet all their success criteria.

Completion of this course will earn 1.8 CEUs.

Integrated Project Management 2019

TOTAL DAYS: 3 | TOTAL HOURS: 19.5

Integrated Project Management 2019

Integrated Project Management combines the basics of project management theory with practical application in Microsoft Project 2019. By continually applying core methodologies in decision making and planning, students will be able to efficiently select and apply the tools in the software application to manage projects that meet all their success criteria.

Completion of this course will earn 1.8 CEUs.

Microsoft Access for Office 365: Part 1

TOTAL DAYS: 1 | TOTAL HOURS: 6.5

Microsoft Access for Office 365: Part 1

Data is everywhere. Most job roles today involve some form of data management. Virtually everyone is affected in some way by the need to manage data. A relational database application such as Microsoft® Access® can help you and your organization with this task. This course is the first part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform database design and development in Access.

Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 1 (this course): Focuses on the design and construction of an Access database —viewing, navigating, searching, and entering data in a database, as well as basic relational database design and creating simple tables, queries, forms, and reports.
Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 2 : Focuses on optimization of an Access database, including optimizing performance and normalizing data, data validation, usability, and advanced queries, forms, and reports.
Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 3 : Focuses on managing the database and supporting complex database designs , including import and export of data, using action queries to manage data, creating complex forms and reports, macros and VBA, and tools and strategies to manage, distribute, and secure a database.

This course may be a useful component in your preparation for the Microsoft Access Expert (Microsoft 365 Apps and Office 2019): Exam MO-500 certification exam.

Completion of this course will earn 0.6 CEUs.

Microsoft Access for Office 365: Part 2

TOTAL DAYS: 1 | TOTAL HOURS: 6.5

Microsoft Access for Office 365: Part 2

Your training and experience using Microsoft® Access® has given you basic database management skills, such as creating tables, designing forms and reports, and building queries. In this course, you will expand your knowledge of relational database design; promote quality input from users; improve database efficiency and promote data integrity; and implement advanced features in tables, queries, forms, and reports. Extending your knowledge of Access will result in a robust, functional database for your users.

This course is the second part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform database design and development in Microsoft Access.

Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 1 : Focuses on the design and construction of an Access database —viewing, navigating, searching, and entering data in a database, as well as basic relational database design and creating simple tables, queries, forms, and reports.
Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 2 (this course): Focuses on optimization of an Access database, including optimizing performance and normalizing data; data validation; usability; and advanced queries, forms, and reports.
Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 3 : Focuses on managing the database and supporting complex database designs , including import and export of data; using action queries to manage data; creating complex forms and reports; macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA); and tools and strategies to manage, distribute, and secure a database.

This course may be a useful component in your preparation for the Microsoft Access Expert (Microsoft 365 Apps and Office 2019): Exam MO-500 certification exam.

Completion of this course will earn 0.6 CEUs.

Microsoft Access for Office 365: Part 3

TOTAL DAYS: 1 | TOTAL HOURS: 6.5

Microsoft Access for Office 365: Part 3

You’ve covered many of the basic functions of Microsoft® Access®, and now you’re ready to learn advanced Access features such as database management, advanced form design, packaging a database, encrypting a database, preparing a database for multiple-user access, and more. Knowledge of these features separate database professionals from the casual database users or occasional designers.

This course is the third part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to perform basic database design and development in Microsoft Access.

Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 1 : Focuses on the design and construction of an Access database —viewing, navigating, searching, and entering data in a database, as well as basic relational database design and creating simple tables, queries, forms, and reports.
Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 2 : Focuses on optimization of an Access database, including optimizing performance and normalizing data; data validation; usability; and advanced queries, forms, and reports.
Microsoft® Access® for Office 365™: Part 3 (this course): Focuses on managing the database and supporting complex database designs , including import and export of data; using action queries to manage data; creating complex forms and reports; macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA); and tools and strategies to manage, distribute, and secure a database.

This course may be a useful component in your preparation for the Microsoft Access Expert (Microsoft 365 Apps and Office 2019): Exam MO-500 certification exam.

Completion of this course will earn 0.6 CEUs.