This self-study guide for the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam from the Project Management Institute contains everything project managers need to pass the PMP Exam, including 44 processes, and 592 inputs, tools, and outputs. Exam topics are covered and insider secrets, complete explanations of all PMP subjects, test tricks and tips, hundreds of highly realistic sample questions, and exercises designed to strengthen understanding of PMP concepts and prepare managers for exam success on the first attempt are provided.

Andy Crowe, PMP, is a Six Sigma Black Belt and the founder of Velociteach, a company that provides project management and certification training. He has taught classes in C++ for Microsoft University and advanced technology courses for the US government, designed courses in high-impact project management for Fortune 50 companies, and served on Microsoft's .NET international advisory committee. He lives in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Using STAAD Pro 2007

This courseware provides an overall look over STAAD Pro 2007. It demonstrates the steps to be followed to produce the structural analysis & design of two types of buildings; concrete and steel. Also the courseware concentrate over the different results generated from the program, and how to read them, view them, and finally generate the necessary reports from them.

At the completion of this course, the trainee will be able to:

• Understand STAAD Pro way of doing the job
• Creating the geometry using different methods
• Use more advanced technique in creating geometry
• Defining the Cross-Sections of Beams, Columns, Plates
• Defining the Constants, Specifications, and Supports
• Defining the Load Systems
• Analyzing your Model using the appropriate Analysis method
• Reviewing the Analysis Results
• Performing Concrete Design
• Performing Steel Design

Java SOA Cookbook

Java SOA Cookbook offers practical solutions and advice to programmers charged with implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) in their organization. Instead of providing another conceptual, high-level view of SOA, this cookbook shows you how to make SOA work. It's full of Java and XML code you can insert directly into your applications and recipes you can apply right away.

The book focuses primarily on the use of free and open source Java Web Services technologies -- including Java SE 6 and Java EE 5 tools -- but you'll find tips for using commercially available tools as well.

Java SOA Cookbook will help you:

• Construct XML vocabularies and data models appropriate to SOA applications
  
  
• Build real-world web services using the latest Java standards, including JAX-WS 2.1 and JAX-RS 1.0 for RESTful web services
  
  
• Integrate applications from popular service providers using SOAP, POX, and Atom
  
  
• Create service orchestrations with complete coverage of the WS-BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) 2.0 standard
  
  
• Improve the reliability of SOAP-based services with specifications such as WS-Reliable Messaging
  
  
• Deal with governance, interoperability, and quality-of-service issues

The recipes in Java SOA Cookbook will equip you with the knowledge you need to approach SOA as an integration challenge, not an obstacle.

About the Author
Eben Hewitt is a Principal on the architecture team at a multi-billion dollar national retail company, where he has been focused on designing and building their Service Oriented Architecture. He has worked in IT for ten years, working on large-scale web and SOA integration projects, distributed software, and messaging systems. Hewitt is the author of four previous programming books, several industry articles, and is a contributor to the O'Reilly book 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know, edited by Richard Monson-Haefel. He is a popular speaker at industry conferences and local user groups.

MCTS/MCITP Windows Server 2008 Configuring Active Directory Exam 70-640, (Book/CD-Rom)

This exam is designed to validate Windows Server 2008 Active Directory skills. This exam will fulfill the Windows Server 2008 Technology Specialist requirements of Exam 70-640.

The Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) on Windows Server 2008 credential is intended for information technology (IT) professionals who work in the complex computing environment of medium to large companies. The MCTS candidate should have at least one year of experience implementing and administering a network operating system in an environment that has the following characteristics: 250 to 5,000 or more users; three or more physical locations; and three or more domain controllers.

MCTS candidates will manage network services and resources such as messaging, a database, file and print, a proxy server, a firewall, the Internet, an intranet, remote access, and client computer management.

In addition MCTS candidates must understand connectivity requirements such as connecting branch offices and individual users in remote locations to the corporate network and connecting corporate networks to the Internet.

• Designed to help newcomers to Microsoft certification study for and pass MCTS exam for Active Directory on their way to MCITP certification
  
  
• THE independent source of exam day tips, techniques, and warnings not available from Microsoft
  
  
• Comprehensive study guide guarantees 100% coverage of all Microsoft's exam objectives
  
  
• Interactive FastTrack e-learning modules help simplify difficult exam topic
  

• Two full-function ExamDay practice exams guarantee double coverage of all exam objectives
  
  
• Free download of audio FastTracks for use with iPods or other MP3 players
  
  
• 1000 page "DRILL DOWN" reference for comprehensive topic review

Hibernate 3 for Beginners (Book/CD-Rom)

Designed for beginners and intermediate developers, this book teaches Hibernate 3 from the ground up with an aim to get the reader up to speed with Hibernate as quickly as possible. It delves deeply into the core of the Hibernate 3 framework, providing a sound understanding of the components that make up the framework and the way they interact with each other.

This book uses the learning by doing pattern with a lot of ready-to-use examples. This pattern has proven to be best approach for beginners. Most [if not all] of the concepts that you will find in this book are demonstrated using well described and easy to understand examples, yet sophisticated enough to demonstrate Hibernate in a real-world context.

Finally, a web based application is developed to re-enforce all the learning that took place throughout the book. Not only this, the book also teaches porting the same application to another database switching from Hibernate’s native API to Java Persistence API and integrating with Struts2. This will definitely help developers to quickly get started with building real-world Web applications using the Hibernate 3 framework.