Blue Coat Certified WAN Acceleration Administrator (BCWAA)

Audience:

User or prospective users of WAN Optimization technology.

Prerequisite:

Students need practical experience with the ProxySG in the field. Additionally, students should have advanced knowledge of application delivery network and security.

Description:

The Blue Coat WAN Acceleration Administrator (BCWAA) Course is intended for students who want to use new ProxySG features that enable application acceleration. The Blue Coat WAN Acceleration Administrator course is intended for students who wish to master the WAN optimization fundamentals of the Blue Coat® ProxySG®. It is designed for students who have not taken any previous training courses about the ProxySG’s WAN acceleration capabilities. Students should be familiar with basic networking concepts, such as local-area networks (LANs), the Internet, security, and IP protocols. After studying this course, you will understand:

·          Basic concepts of WAN optimization.

·          How to deploy and license the ProxySG.

·          How to monitor ProxySG traffic.

·          Concepts of bandwidth management.

·          How WAN optimization works and is configured on ProxyClient®.

Course Outline:

The BCWAA Course covers:

·          WAN Optimization Features

·          Application Delivery Network

·          Product Licensing

·          ProxySG Initial Setup

·          Configuring ADN Roles

·          Monitoring Traffic

·          Byte Caching

·          Optimizing CIFS

·          MAPI Proxy

·          Bandwidth Management

·          Proxy Client Acceleration

Length:

1 - day course

Class Size:

8 students (maximum)

Part #:

TR-BCWAA

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Blue Coat Certified WAN Acceleration Professional (BCWAP)

Audience:

Students should have practical experience with the ProxySG in the field. Additionally, students should have advanced knowledge of application delivery network and security.

Prerequisite:

BCWAA course. Students need practical experience with the ProxySG in the field. Additionally, students should have advanced knowledge of application delivery network and security.

Description:

The Blue Coat WAN Acceleration Professional (BCWAP) Course is intended for students who want to use new ProxySG features that enable advanced features of application acceleration. You must complete the BCWAA course before enrolling in the BCWAP course. The Blue Coat WAN Acceleration Professional course is intended for students who wish to master the advanced WAN optimization features of the Blue Coat® ProxySG®. It is designed for students who already have taken the Blue Coat WAN Acceleration Administrator (BCWAA) course. Students need practical experience with the ProxySG in the field. Additionally, students should have advanced knowledge of networking, security and application acceleration. After studying this course, you will understand:

·          How to configure advanced features in an Application delivery network (ADN)

·          Different ADN Connection types and how can you secure your ADN

·          VLAN and QoS support in the ProxySG

·          Advanced features in CIFS proxy and how to troubleshoot issues

·          How routers interact with web caches using WCCP and how ProxySG supports it

Course Outline:

The BCWAP Course covers:

·          ADN Connection Types

·          Secure ADN

·          ADN Load Balancing

·          Advanced ADN

·          ADN Troubleshooting

·          SSL Proxy

·          CIFS-Advanced Topics

·          CIFS Troubleshooting

·          Advanced MAPI

·          Asymmetric Routing

·          Failover

·          VLAN Support

·          Web Cache Communication Protocol

Length:

2 - day course

Class Size:

8 students (maximum)

Part #:

TR-BCWAP

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Blue Coat Certified Proxy Administrator (BCCPA)

Audience:

Students who wish to master the fundamentals of Blue Coat products and have not taken any previous Blue Coat training courses.

Prerequisite:

Students should be familiar with networking essentials, such as LAN, Internet, security, and IP protocols. Basic knowledge of authentication methods is also a plus.

Description:

The Blue Coat Certified Proxy Administrator (BCCPA) Course is intended for students who wish to master the fundamentals of Blue Coat ProxySG. After studying this course, you will understand:

·          Key concepts of network security and wide-area network (WAN) optimization.

·          The major functions of the ProxySG, how they work, and how to administer them.

·          How the ProxySG interfaces with other Blue Coat products.

·          How to get service and support from Blue Coat.

Course Outline:

The BCCPA Course covers:

·          Proxy Fundamentals

·          ProxySG Deployment

·          Initial Setup

·          Graphical user interface (GUI)

·          Services

·          Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

·          Policy Management

·          WebPulse

·          Authentication (Windows)

·          Authentication using LDAP  

·          Creating Notifications and Exceptions 

·          Access Logging

·          WAN Optimization Features

·          Service and Support.

Length:

2 – day course

Class Size:

8 students (maximum)

Part #:

TR-BCCPA-ADM

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Blue Coat Certified Proxy Professional (BCCPP)

Audience:

Students should have practical experience with the ProxySG in the field. Additionally, students should have advanced knowledge of networking, security, and authentication.

Prerequisite:

BCCPA course. Students need practical experience with the ProxySG in the field. Additionally, students should have advanced knowledge of networking, security, and authentication.

Description:

The Blue Coat Certified Proxy Professional (BCCPP) Course is intended for students who wish to master the advanced features of Blue Coat products.The BCCPP Course focuses on advanced features in Blue Coat’s most recent operating system. You must complete the BCCPA course before enrolling in the BCCPP course. After studying this course, you will understand:

·          The architecture of the ProxySG.

·          How to use Content Policy Language and trace policy execution.

·          Authentication realms and how to configure them on the ProxySG.

·          How to use the ProxySG for forwarding and failover.

·          Streaming media and bandwidth management.

·          How the ProxySG works with the ProxyAV™ to perform anti-virus scanning.

·          How Blue Coat Director can be used to manage multiple ProxySG appliances.

Course Outline:

The BCCPP Course covers:

·          System architecture

·          Caching architecture 

·          Services - Advanced Topics 

·          Content Policy Language (CPL)

·          Regular Expressions

·          Managing Downloads and Apparent Data Type

·          HTTP Details

·          Authentication in Transparent Proxy Mode

·          Using Kerberos Authentication  

·          Advanced Authentication

·          Guest Authentication  

·          SSL Proxy

·          Policy Tracing

·          Forwarding

·          Reverse Proxy Implementation

·          Two-Way URL Rewrite

·          Failover

·          Health Checks

·          Web Cache Communication Protocol

·          VLAN Support

·          Managing Streaming Media

·          Proxy Client

·          Proxy Client Filtering

·          Introduction to ProxyAV

·          ICAP Concepts

·          Introduction to Director

Length:

3 – day course

Class Size:

8 students (maximum)

Part #:

TR-BCCPA-PRO

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Visibility and Control Track

Blue Coat Certified PacketShaper Administrator (BCPSA)

Audience:

Students who are responsible for managing network application performance using the Blue Coat PacketShaper.  This is the rebranded and modified version of the former Packeteer Specialist (Level1) course. The goal of this course is to develop basic knowledge and skills sufficient to operate an installed PacketShaper on a daily basis. This instructor-led course provides an effective mix of operational theory and hands-on performance-based exercises, and is intended for individuals requiring basic operational knowledge and skills; i.e., network/system administrators responsible for daily management of PacketShaper.

Prerequisite:

Students should be familiar with networking essentials, such as LAN, Internet, security, and IP protocols.

Description:

The Blue Coat PacketShaper Administrator (BCPSA) Course is intended for students who want to use new PacketShaper features that deliver integrated visibility, control and compression capabilities in a single appliance. 

Course Outline:

The BCPSA Course covers:

·          Blue Coat Product Family

·          Blue Coat PacketShaper Overview

·          PacketShaper Deployment

·          PacketShaper Licensing

·          Initial Configuration

·          PacketShaper GUI and CLI

·          Understanding Applications on the Network

·          Analyzing Applications on the Network

·          Controlling Application on the Network

·          Bandwidth Management

·          Policies

·          Maintaining PacketShaper

Length:

2 – day course

Class Size:

8 students (maximum)

Part #:

TR-BCPSA

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Blue Coat Certified PacketShaper Professional (BCPSP)

Audience:

The course is oriented towards the learning needs of working IT professionals responsible for troubleshooting network application performance using Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances.

Prerequisite:

BCPSA course. Students must have an understanding of networking and general knowledge of application behavior on Wide Area Networks. Course Description and Contents.

Description:

The Blue Coat PacketShaper Professional (BCPSP) Course is intended for students who want to use new PacketShaper features that deliver integrated visibility, control and compression capabilities in a single appliance

Course Outline:

The BCPSP Course covers:

·          Blue Coat PacketShaper Architecture

·          Advanced Classification

·          Advanced Bandwidth Management

·          Understanding Adaptive Response

·          PacketShaper Authentication

·          Compression and Acceleration

·          Introduction to Intelligence Center

·          Introduction to Policy Center

Length:

3 – day course

Class Size:

8 students (maximum)

Part #:

TR-PSP

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Additional Blue Coat Courses

Blue Coat Director

Audience:

Students should have practical experience with the ProxySG in the field. Additionally, students should have advanced knowledge of networking, security, and authentication.

Prerequisite:

BCCPA and/or BCCPP course(s).

Description:

The Blue Coat Director Course is intended for students in organizations with multiple Blue Coat ProxySG appliances. Blue Coat Director makes it easy to manage Blue Coat SG appliances — individually or in groups — in branch offices as well as at the company’s core.  After studying this course, you will understand:

·          How to rapidly configure and deploy new devices

·          How to easily upgrade installed systems

·          Centrally managing new policies and configurations by device, group of devices, or region

·          Proactively managing your network to prevent problems

·          Conserving valuable network resources with bandwidth policies and content pre-positioning

Course Outline:

The Blue Coat Director Course covers:

·          Director Architecture

·          Director Configuration

·          Administering Director

·          ProxySG auto-registration

·          Device Configuration and Management

·          Managing Content

·          Content Sync Module

·          Director Standby

Length:

Half – day course

Class Size:

8 students (maximum)

Part #:

BTR-BCDIR

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Blue Coat Reporter

Audience:

Students should have practical experience with the ProxySG in the field. Additionally, students should have advanced knowledge of access logs.

Prerequisite:

BCCPA and/or BCCPP course(s).

Description:

The Blue Coat Reporter Course is intended for students interested in learning how to create flexible security, IT and network reports for an entire organization using access logs from ProxySG appliances. After studying this course, you will understand:

·          How  Blue Coat Reporter creates extensive drill-down reports

·          Comprehensive log file inputs

·          Policy-enabled logging

·          User/Session tracking

·          Advanced administration

Length:

half – day course

Class Size:

8 students (maximum)

Part #:

BTR-BCRPT

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