Product Description

Kumi loves to eat, but she’s worried that her passion for junk food is affecting her health. Determined to unlock the secrets of dieting, she enlists the help of her brainy friend Nemoto and his beautiful biochemistry professor, Dr. Kurosaka. And so it begins…

Follow along in The Manga Guide to Biochemistry as Kumi explores the mysteries of her body’s inner workings. With the help of RoboCat, the professor’s friendly endoscopic robot, you’ll soar through the incredible chemical machinery that keeps us alive and get an up-close look at biopolymers like DNA and proteins, the metabolic processes that turn our food into energy, and the enzymes that fuel our bodies’ chemical reactions.

As you dive into the depths of plant and animal cells, you’ll learn about:

• The metabolism of substances like carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and alcohol
• How the energy powerhouses known as mitochondria produce ATP
• DNA transcription and the different types of RNA that work together to translate the genetic code into proteins
• Enzyme kinetics, how they’re measured, and how enzyme inhibition works

Whether you’re a medical student, an amateur scientist, or just curious about how your body turns cupcakes into energy, The Manga Guide to Biochemistry is your key to understanding the science of life.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. What Happens Inside Your Body?
Chapter 2. Photosynthesis and Respiration
Chapter 3. Biochemistry in Our Everyday Lives
Chapter 4. Enzymes are the Key to Chemical Reactions
Chapter 5. Molecular Biology and the Biochemistry of Nucleic Acids

Book Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: No Starch Press (November 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593272766
• ISBN-13: 978-1593272760

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Book Description

A Day-by-Day Review Guide for the CompTIA A+ 220-701 and 220-702 Exams

31 Days Before Your CompTIA^® A+ Exams, Second Edition offers you a personable and practical way to understand the certification process, commit to taking the exam, and finish your preparation using a variety of study resources.

The 31-Day format breaks down key exam topics into 31 daily review sessions using short summaries, lists, tables, examples, and graphics. This edition includes a Study Resources section at the end of each day that provides you with a quick reference for locating more in-depth treatment of a day’s topics within relevant textbook resources.

Use this day-by-day guide to organize, prepare, and review all the CompTIA A+ objectives for the CompTIA A+ Essentials exam (220-701) and the CompTIA A+ Practical Application exam (220-702).

• The features of the book empower you to fit exam preparation into an otherwise busy schedule:
• Tear-out visual calendar summarizes each day’s study topics
• Checklist highlights important tasks and deadlines leading up to your exam
• Description of the CompTIA A+ exams and sign-up process
• Strategies from the author help you to be mentally, organizationally, and physically prepared for exam day
• Conversational tone makes your study time more enjoyable

Who Should Read This Book?
This book is for anyone preparing for the CompTIA A+ exams working with learning resources published by either Cisco Press, Que, Addison-Wesley, Cengage, or McGraw-Hill listed on page xxvii of this book.

Book Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Cisco Press; 2nd Edition (September 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587132605
• ISBN-13: 978-1587132605

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• CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide (Exam 640-802) (16-08-2009)
• VCP4 Exam Cram: VMware Certified Professional, 2nd Edition (09-03-2011)
• VCP VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 4 Study Guide: Exam VCP-410 (17-05-2011)

Book Description

Trust the best selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn, prepare, and practice for exam success. They are built with the objective of providing assessment, review, and practice to help ensure you are fully prepared for your certification exam.

CCNA Voice 640-461 Official Cert Guide presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. “Do I Know This Already?” quizzes open each chapter and enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly.

• Master Cisco CCNA Voice 640-461 exam topics
• Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes
• Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks
• Practice with realistic exam questions on the CD-ROM

CCNA Voice 640-461 Official Cert Guide focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNA Voice ICOMM exam. Senior voice consultants and trainers Jeremy Cioara and Michael Valentine share preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics.

The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test engine that enables you to focus on individual topic areas or take a complete, timed exam. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed most.

Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, comprehensive design scenarios, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.

The official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNA Voice exam, including:

• Voice and data convergence
• IP phone connections to the LAN infrastructure
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express
• CUCM Express IP phone configuration and voice productivity features
• Gateways and trunks
• Cisco Unity Express
• Smart Business Communications System
• UC500 series for voice

CCNA Voice 640-461 Official Cert Guide is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.

Book Details

• Hardcover: 528 pages
• Publisher: Cisco Press (September 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587204177
• ISBN-13: 978-1587204173

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Book Description

Professional-level prep for the professional-level exam.

Prepare for MCPD Exam 70-518—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Windows application design and development with .NET Framework 4. Designed for experienced, MCTS-certified professionals ready to advance their status—Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCPD level.

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

• Designing the Layers of a Solution
• Designing the Presentation Layer
• Designing the Data Access Layer
• Planning a Solution Deployment
• Designing for Stability and Maintenance

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Designing the Layers of a Solution
Chapter 2. Designing the Presentation Layer
Chapter 3. Designing the Data Access Layer
Chapter 4. Planning a Solution Deployment
Chapter 5. Designing for Stability and Maintenance

Appendix. About the Authors

Book Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (December 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735657238
• ISBN-13: 978-0735657236

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Book Description

Demonstrate your expertise with Microsoft Office! Designed to help you practice and prepare for a Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exam, this all-in-one study guide features:

• Full, objective-by-objective exam coverage
• Easy-to-follow procedures and illustrations to review essential skills
• Hands-on practice tasks to apply what you’ve learned; files included
• Online pre-test to assess your readiness

Use the in-depth exam prep, practice, and review to help advance your proficiency with Microsoft Office—and earn the credential that proves it!

Exam covered:

• Exam 77-853: MOS Microsoft Office OneNote 2010

Companion Content includes:

• Practice files for the exam
• Fully searchable eBook
• Sample chapters from OneNote STEP BY STEP books from Microsoft Press (TBD)

Special Offer: Exam discount plus free online pre-test!• Get 25% off your MOS exam fee and a free Microsoft Official Pre-Test from Certiport• Use the pre-test to assess your skill level and get feedback on your results.• See details on the Certiport offer page inside

Book Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (December 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 073566594X
• ISBN-13: 978-0735665941

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Book Description

Schools, colleges and universities all over the world are installing Moodle, but many educators aren’t making much use of it. With so many features, it can be a hassle to learn – and with teachers under so much pressure day-to-day, they cannot devote much time to recreating all their lessons from scratch.

This book provides the quickest way for teachers and trainers to get up and running with Moodle, by turning their familiar teaching materials into a Moodle e-learning course.

This book shows how to bring your existing notes, worksheets, resources and lesson plans into Moodle quickly and easily. Instead of exploring every feature of Moodle, the book focuses on getting you started immediately – you will be turning your existing materials into Moodle courses right from the start.

The book begins by showing how to turn your teaching schedule into a Moodle course, with the correct number of topics and weeks. You will then see how to convert your resources – documents, slideshows, and worksheets, into Moodle. You will learn how to format them in a way that means students will be able to read them, and along the way plenty of shortcuts to speed up the process.

By the end of Chapter 3, you will already have a Moodle course that contains your learning resources in a presentable way. But the book doesn’t end there– you will also see how to use Moodle to accept and assess coursework submissions, discuss work with students, and deliver quizzes, tests, and video.

Throughout the book, the focus is on getting results fast – moving teaching material online so that lessons become more effective for students, and less work for you.

What you will learn from this book:

• Incorporate your existing handouts, worksheets, and other resources into Moodle courses
• Quick methods to make your Moodle courses engaging, attractive, and fun
• Fast ways to add multimedia to your course, or incorporate existing sounds and videos
• Using Moodle as a repository for departmental guidelines and documentation
• Move marking online! See how students can submit their assignments straight into Moodle, for you to mark assess on the computer – no more backbreaking boxes of assignments to lug to and from school
• Use forums and messaging to keep in contact with students when it’s convenient, rather than having them call into your office during your breaks or preparation time.
• See how you can make your course a completely online experience – dispensing with face time all together

Approach
With clear instructions and plenty of screenshots, this book provides all the support and guidance you will need as you begin to convert your teaching to Moodle. Step-by-step tutorials use real-world examples to show you how to convert to Moodle in the most efficient and effective ways possible. Moodle Course Conversion carefully illustrates how Moodle can be used to teach content and ideas and clearly demonstrates the advantages of doing so.

Who this book is written for
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Book Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing; 2nd Edition (November 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1849514828
• ISBN-13: 978-1849514828

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Book Description

CCNP Security FIREWALL 642-617 Official Cert Guide is a best of breed Cisco exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNP Security FIREWALL exam. Senior security consultants and instructors David Hucaby, Dave Garneau, and Anthony Sequeira share preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics.

CCNP Security FIREWALL 642-617 Official Cert Guide presents you with an organized test-preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. “Do I Know This Already?” quizzes open each chapter and enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly.

The companion CD-ROM contains the powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test engine that enables you to focus on individual topic areas or take a complete, timed exam. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed most.

Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.

CCNP Security FIREWALL 642-617 Official Cert Guide is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.

The official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNP Security FIREWALL exam, including

• ASA interfaces
• IP connectivity
• ASA management
• Recording ASA activity
• Address translation
• Access control
• Proxy services
• Traffic inspection and handling
• Transparent firewall mode
• Virtual firewalls
• High availability
• ASA service modules

Book Details

• Hardcover: 768 pages
• Publisher: Cisco Press (September 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587142791
• ISBN-13: 978-1587142796

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Book Description

Prepare for MCPD Exam 70-519—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of web application design and development—with this official Microsoft® Exam Ref. Written for experienced, MCTS-certified professionals ready to advance their status—this guide focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCPD level. With concise, objective-by-objective reviews, strategic case scenarios, and “Thought Experiments”, you get professional-level preparation for the professional-level exam.

Optimize your exam-prep by focusing on the expertise needed to:

• Design the application architecture
• Choose the right server-side and client-side technologies
• Design the user experience
• Design data access and presentation
• Plan for security
• Choose a testing methodology
• Plan for scalability and reliability

You also get an exam discount voucher—making this book an exceptional value and a great career investment.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Designing the Application Architecture
Chapter 2 Designing the User Experience
Chapter 3 Designing Data Strategies and Structures
Chapter 4 Designing Security Architecture and Implementation
Chapter 5 Preparing for and Investigating Application Issues
Chapter 6 Designing a Deployment Strategy

Book Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (October 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735657262
• ISBN-13: 978-0735657267

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Book Description

A fully updated study guide for MCTS exam 70-680

Demand for experienced, qualified Windows 7 administrators remains high. IT professionals seeking certification in Windows 7 administration will find everything they need to learn to pass the MCTS exam (70-680) in this complete Sybex Study Guide. Updated to cover the most recent version of the exam, this comprehensive guide examines all the exam objectives, using real-world scenarios, hands-on exercises, and challenging review questions.

• Certification in Windows 7 administration is highly prized by IT professionals and employers; this comprehensive study guide covers everything you need to know to pass MCTS exam 70-680
• Covers installing, upgrading, and migrating to Windows 7; deploying Windows 7; configuring hardware, applications, network connectivity, access to resources, and mobile computing; monitoring and maintaining systems that run Windows 7; and configuring backup and recovery options
• Features review questions, practice exams, flashcards, and video walkthroughs

This complete study guide is the partner you need to assure your success on exam 70-680.

From the Back Cover

Prepare for the Latest Version of Exam 70-680

If you’re seeking certification in Windows 7 configuration, you’ll want to be ready for the very latest version of MCTS Exam 70-680, Windows 7 Configuration. This comprehensive book is the in-depth study tool you need to prepare. In addition to covering all exam objectives, MCTS: Microsoft Windows 7 Configuration Study Guide, Second Edition delves into the latest Windows 7 topics and technologies—and includes recent updates to the exam. Inside, find:

• Full coverage of all exam objectives in a systematic approach, so you can be confident you’re getting the instruction you need for the exam
• Practical hands-on exercises to reinforce critical skills
• Real-world scenarios that put what you’ve learned in the context of actual job roles
• Challenging review questions in each chapter to prepare you for exam day
• Exam Essentials, a key feature in each chapter that identifies critical areas you must become proficient in before taking the exam
• Video demonstrations of some of the more challenging tasks Windows 7 administrators can expect to perform
• A handy tear card that maps every official exam objective to the corresponding chapter in the book, so you can track your exam prep objective by objective

Look inside for complete coverage of all exam objectives.

Book Details

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; 2nd Edition (October 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470948450
• ISBN-13: 978-0470948453

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Book Description

Moodle is a virtual learning environment that is being used in more and more schools worldwide. It is ideal for teaching a younger age group as interactive lessons enable children to learn quicker and with greater ease.

Moodle 2 for Teaching 4-9 Year Olds Beginner’s Guide will help you to adapt your existing lesson plans to online Moodle courses and will give you ideas to create new activities, quizzes, and puzzles to make the learning process fun and interactive for young children.

The interactivity of Moodle means that it is perfect for teaching younger children as they can learn by watching, listening, and doing. Learn how to create activities and quizzes that are specially adapted for younger children and are quick and easy for you to incorporate in Moodle. Other highlights include spot-the-difference exercises, games, and embedded puzzles.

Teaching young children has just got easier with the help of Moodle to create fun, interactive, and informative learning activities.

What you will learn from this book:

• Create a course and find your way around Moodle
• Use the Moodle Database module to create story-telling activities
• Create visual spot-the-difference exercises using the lesson module
• Embed visualizations of historic and time-based events, using the SIMILE Timeline widget
• Add fun games including word-search and hidden picture puzzles to your courses
• Explore how to embed Flash-based puzzles to Moodle
• Combine face-to-face teaching with online activities in a classroom environment

Approach
Part of Packt’s Beginner’s Guide series, this book will steadily guide the reader through exercises using practical examples that are easy to build, which are illustrated with screenshots. The activities become steadily more sophisticated and include combining the content from one module with another.

Who this book is written for
This book is aimed at teachers of children aged 4 to 9 who wish to integrate the Moodle open source virtual learning environment into their teaching. It assumes a basic knowledge of the Web but no prior knowledge of Moodle, although it is expected that you will either have Moodle already set up in your school, or a friendly IT technician who can do it for you.

Book Details

• Paperback: 332 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1849513287
• ISBN-13: 978-1849513289

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Book Description

Schools, colleges, and universities all over the world are installing Moodle, but many educators aren’t making much use of it. With so many features, it can be a hassle to learn – and with teachers under so much pressure day-to-day, they cannot devote time to recreating all their lessons from scratch.

This book shows how to bring your existing notes, worksheets, resources, and lesson plans into Moodle quickly and easily. Instead of exploring every feature of Moodle, the book focuses on getting you started immediately – you will be turning your existing materials into Moodle courses right from the start.

The book begins by showing how to turn your teaching schedule into a Moodle course, with the correct number of topics and weeks. You will then see how to convert your resources – documents, slideshows, and worksheets, into Moodle. You will learn how to format them in a way that means students will be able to read them and along the way you will learn plenty of shortcuts to speed up the process.

By the end of Chapter 3, you will already have a Moodle course that contains your learning resources in a presentable way. But the book doesn’t end there… you will also see how to use Moodle to accept and assess coursework submissions, discuss work with students, and deliver quizzes, tests, and videos.

Throughout the book, the focus is on getting results fast – moving teaching material online so that lessons become more effective for students, and less work for you.

This book provides the quickest way for teachers and trainers to get up and running with Moodle, by turning their familiar teaching materials into a Moodle e-learning course.

What you will learn from this book:

• Incorporating your existing handouts, worksheets, and other resources into Moodle courses
• Quick methods to make your Moodle courses engaging, attractive, and fun
• Fast ways to add multimedia to your course, or incorporate existing sounds and videos
• Using Moodle as a repository for departmental guidelines and documentation
• Moving marking online! You will see how students can submit their assignments right into Moodle, for you to mark or assess on the computer – no more backbreaking boxes of assignments to lug to and from school
• Using forums and messaging to keep in contact with students when it’s convenient, rather than having them call into your office during your breaks or preparation time
• Moving ‘discussion activities’ into Moodle so that classes can work together even if they don’t have much classroom time
• Finally, making your course into a completely online experience – dispensing with face-time all together

Approach
With clear instructions and plenty of screenshots, this book provides all the support and guidance you will need as you begin to convert your teaching to Moodle. Step-by-step tutorials use real-world examples to show you how to convert to Moodle in the most efficient and effective ways possible. Moodle Course Conversion carefully illustrates how Moodle can be used to teach content and ideas and clearly demonstrates the advantages of doing so.

Who this book is written for
This book is for teachers, tutors, and lecturers who already have a large body of teaching material and want to use Moodle to enhance their courses, rather than developing brand new ones. You won’t need experience with Moodle, but will need teacher access to a ready installed Moodle site.

Teachers with some experience of Moodle, who want to focus on incorporating existing course materials will also find this book very useful.

Book Details

• Paperback: 316 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (December 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847195245
• ISBN-13: 978-1847195241

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Book Description

This book reviews state-of-the-art methodologies and techniques for analyzing enormous quantities of raw data in high-dimensional data spaces, to extract new information for decision making. The goal of this book is to provide a single introductory source, organized in a systematic way, in which we could direct the readers in analysis of large data sets, through the explanation of basic concepts, models and methodologies developed in recent decades.

Review
“…a very readable and up-to-date introduction to data mining…” (Quality & Reliability Engineering International, Vol. 21 (4) June 2005)”…suitable for a graduate level course in data mining…I enjoyed reading this book and recommend it highly.” (Journal of Statistical Computation & Simulation, April 2004)

“…clear and well understandable…recommended as basic guidance…practitioners will profit from the author’s long experience…” (Zentralblatt Math, Vol. 1027, 2004)

“…reviews state-of-the-art techniques for analyzing enormous quantities of raw data…” (Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, Vol. LXI, No. 3, September 2003)

“…this is a comprehensive textbook that describes the process and methodologies of data mining in an unbiased manner…serves as an excellent starting point for anyone wishing to learn about data mining.” (Journal of Proteome Research, May/ June 2003)

“…a valuable book…. I truly enjoyed reading the book and I am glad to recommend it to anyone working in this fascinating field.” (IIE Transactions)

“…detailed, well illustrated, and easy to understand…comprehensive…a good book…” (Mathematical Reviews 2003h)

“…this is probably the first data-mining book that I would select from my bookshelf as reading material for a statistician…” (Technometrics, Vol. 45, No. 3, August 2003)

From the Back Cover
Now updated—the systematic introductory guide to modern analysis of large data setsAs data sets continue to grow in size and complexity, there has been an inevitable move towards indirect, automatic, and intelligent data analysis in which the analyst works via more complex and sophisticated software tools. This book reviews state-of-the-art methodologies and techniques for analyzing enormous quantities of raw data in high-dimensional data spaces to extract new information for decision-making.

This Second Edition of Data Mining: Concepts, Models, Methods, and Algorithms discusses data mining principles and then describes representative state-of-the-art methods and algorithms originating from different disciplines such as statistics, machine learning, neural networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary computation. Detailed algorithms are provided with necessary explanations and illustrative examples, and questions and exercises for practice at the end of each chapter. This new edition features the following new techniques/methodologies:

• Support Vector Machines (SVM)—developed based on statistical learning theory, they have a large potential for applications in predictive data mining
• Kohonen Maps (Self-Organizing Maps – SOM)—one of very applicative neural-networks-based methodologies for descriptive data mining and multi-dimensional data visualizations
• DBSCAN, BIRCH, and distributed DBSCAN clustering algorithms—representatives of an important class of density-based clustering methodologies
• Bayesian Networks (BN) methodology often used for causality modeling
• Algorithms for measuring Betweeness and Centrality parameters in graphs, important for applications in mining large social networks
• CART algorithm and Gini index in building decision trees
• Bagging & Boosting approaches to ensemble-learning methodologies, with details of AdaBoost algorithm
• Relief algorithm, one of the core feature selection algorithms inspired by instance-based learning
• PageRank algorithm for mining and authority ranking of web pages
• Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) for text mining and measuring semantic similarities between text-based documents
• New sections on temporal, spatial, web, text, parallel, and distributed data mining
• More emphasis on business, privacy, security, and legal aspects of data mining technology

This text offers guidance on how and when to use a particular software tool (with the companion data sets) from among the hundreds offered when faced with a data set to mine. This allows analysts to create and perform their own data mining experiments using their knowledge of the methodologies and techniques provided. The book emphasizes the selection of appropriate methodologies and data analysis software, as well as parameter tuning. These critically important, qualitative decisions can only be made with the deeper understanding of parameter meaning and its role in the technique that is offered here.

This volume is primarily intended as a data-mining textbook for computer science, computer engineering, and computer information systems majors at the graduate level. Senior students at the undergraduate level and with the appropriate background can also successfully comprehend all topics presented here.

Book Details

• Hardcover: 552 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press; 2nd Edition (August 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470890452
• ISBN-13: 978-0470890455

Book Description

A step-by-step guide to the tasks involved in security administration

If you aspire to a career in security administration, one of your greatest challenges will be gaining hands-on experience. This book takes you through the most common security admin tasks step by step, showing you the way around many of the roadblocks you can expect on the job. It offers a variety of scenarios in each phase of the security administrator’s job, giving you the confidence of first-hand experience.

In addition, this is an ideal complement to the brand-new, bestselling CompTIA Security+ Study Guide, 5th Edition or the CompTIA Security+ Deluxe Study Guide, 2nd Edition, the latest offerings from Sybex for CompTIA’s Security+ SY0-301 exam.

• Targets security administrators who confront a wide assortment of challenging tasks and those seeking a career in security administration who are hampered by a lack of actual experience
• Walks you through a variety of common tasks, demonstrating step by step how to perform them and how to circumvent roadblocks you may encounter
• Features tasks that are arranged according to four phases of the security administrator’s role: designing a secure network, creating and implementing standard security policies, identifying insecure systems in an existing environment, and training both onsite and remote users
• Ideal hands-on for those preparing for CompTIA’s Security+ exam (SY0-301)

This comprehensive workbook provides the next best thing to intensive on-the-job training for security professionals.

From the Back Cover
Develop the skills you need in the real world

Hit the ground running with the street-smart training you’ll find in this practical guide to security administration. Using a “year in the life” approach, it gives you an inside look at the common responsibilities of security administrators, with key information organized around the actual day-to-day tasks, scenarios, and challenges you’ll face in the field. Updated for CompTIA Security+ Exam SY0-301, this valuable training tool is loaded with hands-on, step-by-step exercises covering all phases of a security administrator’s job, including:

• Designing a secure network environment
• Creating and implementing standard security policies and practices
• Identifying insecure systems in physical and digital environments
• Providing training to onsite and remote users

An invaluable study tool

This no-nonsense book also covers common tasks that CompTIA expects all of its Security+ candidates to know how to perform. So whether you’re preparing for certification or seeking practical skills to break into the field, you’ll find the instruction you need, including:

• Performing an initial risk assessment
• Hardening all systems—services, ports, OS,and more
• Encrypting files and securing data storage
• Creating and managing user accounts
• Deploying IPSec and securing remote systems
• Securing Internet activity, networks, and wireless
• Testing, pen testing, tracking, profiling, and troubleshooting

The Street Smarts series is designed to help current or aspiring IT professionals put their certification to work for them. Full of practical, real world scenarios, each book features actual tasks from the field and then offers step-by-step exercises that teach the skills necessary to complete those tasks. And because the exercises are based upon exam objectives from leading technology certifications, each Street Smarts book can be used as a lab manual for certification prep.

• Step-by-step exercises teach you hands-on skills
• Real world scenarios put those skills in perspective

REVISED FOR THE UPDATED SECURITY+ EXAM (SY0-301)

Book Details

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; 3rd Edition (June 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1118061160
• ISBN-13: 978-1118061169

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Book Description

Announcing an all-new SELF-PACED TRAINING KIT designed to help maximize your performance on 70-667, the required exam for the MCTS certification: Configuring Microsoft SharePoint 2010. This 2-in-1 kit includes the official Microsoft study guide, plus practice tests on CD to help you assess your skills. It comes packed with the tools and features exam candidates want most—including in-depth, self-paced training based on final exam content; rigorous, objective-by-objective review; exam tips from expert, exam-certified authors; and customizable testing options. It also provides real-world scenarios, case study examples, and troubleshooting labs for the skills and expertise you can use on the job.

Work at your own pace through the lessons and lab exercises in the official study guide. Coverage includes installing and configuring a SharePoint environment, deploying applications, and managing and maintaining a SharePoint environment. Then assess yourself using practice questions on CD, featuring multiple customizable testing options to meet your specific needs. Choose timed or untimed testing mode, generate random tests, or focus on discrete objectives. You get detailed explanations for right and wrong answers—including pointers back to the book for further study. You also get an exam discount voucher—making this kit an exceptional value and a great career investment.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Creating a SharePoint 2010 Intranet
Chapter 2 Administering and Automating SharePoint
Chapter 3 Managing Web Applications
Chapter 4 Administering and Securing SharePoint Content
Chapter 5 Service Applications and the Managed Metadata Service
Chapter 6 Configuring User Profiles and Social Networking
Chapter 7 Administering SharePoint Search
Chapter 8 Implementing Enterprise Service Applications
Chapter 9 Deploying and Upgrading to SharePoint 2010
Chapter 10 Administering SharePoint Customization
Chapter 11 Implementing Business Continuity
Chapter 12 Monitoring and Optimizing SharePoint Performance

About the Author
Dan Holme, a graduate of Yale University and Thunderbird, has spent more than a decade as a consultant and trainer, delivering solutions to tens of thousands of IT professionals from the most prestigious organizations and corporations around the world. Dan’s company, Intelliem, specializes in boosting the productivity of IT professionals and end users by creating advanced, customized solutions that integrate clients’ specific design and configuration into productivity-focused tools, training, and knowledge management services. Dan is also a contributing editor for Windows® IT Pro magazine, an MVP (Office SharePoint® Server), and the community lead of officesharepointpro.com.

A consultant with extensive and cutting-edge experience in Microsoft® technologies, Alistair has spent the last ten years developing with, consulting on, and communicating about both Developer and IT Professional sides of SharePoint®, Visual Studio®, Active Directory®, Exchange and Windows®.

Book Details

• Paperback: 864 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (September 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735638853
• ISBN-13: 978-0735638853

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Book Description

Demonstrate your expertise with Microsoft Access by earning a MOS 2010 certification. This Study Guide is designed to help you practice and prepare for Exam 77-885: Access 2010, and features:

• Full objective-by-objective review
• Procedures and hands-on practice tasks
• Ready-made, downloadable practice files
• Exam-discount and pre-test offer

Use the in-depth exam prep, practice, and review to help advance your proficiency with Access 2010—and earn the credential that proves it!

NOTE: This same content is also available as part of the MOS 2010 Study Guide for Microsoft Word Expert, Excel Expert, Access, & SharePoint Exams (ISBN 9780735657885)

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Using the Access Workspace
Chapter 2. Building Tables
Chapter 3. Building Forms
Chapter 4. Creating and Managing Queries
Chapter 5. Designing Reports

About the Author
John Pierce is a writer with Microsoft’s Information Worker New Markets group and a former editor and writer at Microsoft Press®. He is the author of Microsoft Office Access® 2003 Inside Track.

Book Details

• Paperback: 158 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (September 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735657939
• ISBN-13: 978-0735657939

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Book Description

Demonstrate your expertise with Microsoft SharePoint by earning a MOS 2010 certification. This Study Guide is designed to help you practice and prepare for Exam 77-886: SharePoint 2010, and features:

• Full objective-by-objective review
• Procedures and hands-on practice tasks
• Ready-made, downloadable practice files
• Exam-discount and pre-test offer

Use the in-depth exam prep, practice, and review to help advance your proficiency with SharePoint 2010—and earn the credential that proves it!

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Creating and Formatting Content
Chapter 2. Managing SharePoint Sites
Chapter 3. Participating in User Communities
Chapter 4. Configuring and Consuming Site Search Results
Chapter 5. Integrating SharePoint 2010 Services and Microsoft Office 2010 Applications

About the Author
Geoff Evelyn is an expert specializing in SharePoint Information Systems design, architecture, implementation, planning, governance, disaster recovery, and automation. He has helped implement, manage and govern SharePoint in many universities and global companies. He is a Fellow of Institute of Analysts and Programmers, a member of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems.

Book Details

• Paperback: 158 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (September 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735663203
• ISBN-13: 978-0735663206

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Book Description

Demonstrate your expertise with Microsoft Outlook by earning a MOS 2010 certification. This Study Guide is designed to help you practice and prepare for Exam 77-884: Outlook 2010, and features:

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About the Author
Joan Lambert is the author or coauthor of more than a dozen books about Windows® and Microsoft Office, including the popularMicrosoft Windows XP Step by Step and 2007 Microsoft OfficeSystem Step by Step. Having learned about computers literally at herfather’s knee, Joan’s wide-ranging experiences in various facets ofthe computer industry contribute to her enthusiasm for producinginteresting, useful, and understandable training materials. Joan isthe President of Online Training Solutions, Inc. (OTSI) and an avidtelecommuter. The power of the Internet and an obsession withtechnology have made it possible for Joan to live and work in NewZealand, Sweden, Denmark, and various locations in the US duringthe past 15 years. Having finally discovered the delights of a dailydose of sunshine, Joan has settled in San Diego.

Joyce Cox has 25 years’ experience developing training materials on technical subjects for non-technical audiences, and has writtendozens of books about Microsoft Office and Windows technologies.

Book Details

• Paperback: 158 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (September 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735662479
• ISBN-13: 978-0735662476

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Book Description

Demonstrate your expertise with Microsoft Excel by earning a MOS 2010 certification. This Study Guide is designed to help you practice and prepare for Exam 77-882: Excel 2010, and features:

• Full objective-by-objective review
• Procedures and hands-on practice tasks
• Ready-made, downloadable practice files
• Exam-discount and pre-test offer

Use the in-depth exam prep, practice, and review to help advance your proficiency with Excel 2010—and earn the credential that proves it!

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About the Author
Joan Lambert is the author or coauthor of more than a dozen books about Windows® and Microsoft Office, including the popularMicrosoft Windows XP Step by Step and 2007 Microsoft OfficeSystem Step by Step. Having learned about computers literally at herfather’s knee, Joan’s wide-ranging experiences in various facets ofthe computer industry contribute to her enthusiasm for producinginteresting, useful, and understandable training materials. Joan isthe President of Online Training Solutions, Inc. (OTSI) and an avidtelecommuter. The power of the Internet and an obsession withtechnology have made it possible for Joan to live and work in NewZealand, Sweden, Denmark, and various locations in the US duringthe past 15 years. Having finally discovered the delights of a dailydose of sunshine, Joan has settled in San Diego.

Joyce Cox has 25 years’ experience developing training materials on technical subjects for non-technical audiences, and has writtendozens of books about Microsoft Office and Windows technologies.

Book Details

• Paperback: 158 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (September 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735662452
• ISBN-13: 978-0735662452

Book Description

Demonstrate your expertise with Microsoft Excel by earning a MOS 2010 certification. This Study Guide is designed to help you practice and prepare for Exam 77-888: Excel 2010 Expert, and features:

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Chapter 1. Sharing and Maintaining Workbooks
Chapter 2. Applying Formulas and Functions
Chapter 3. Presenting Data Visually
Chapter 4. Working with Macros and Forms

About the Author
John Pierce is a writer with Microsoft’s Information Worker New Markets group and a former editor and writer at Microsoft Press®. He is the author of Microsoft Office Access® 2003 Inside Track.

Book Details

• Paperback: 158 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (September 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735657912
• ISBN-13: 978-0735657915

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Book Description

Demonstrate your expertise with Microsoft Word by earning a MOS 2010 certification. This Study Guide is designed to help you practice and prepare for Exam 77-887: Word 2010 Expert, and features:

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Chapter 2. Formatting Content
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• Publisher: Microsoft Press (September 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735657890
• ISBN-13: 978-0735657892

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