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31 Days Before Your CompTIA A+ Exams, 2nd Edition

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 11:23 AM PST

31 Days Before Your CompTIA A+ Exams, 2nd Edition

Book Description

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

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

The 31-Day format breaks down key 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 Press, Que, Addison-Wesley, Cengage, or McGraw-Hill listed on page xxvii of this book.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Press; 2nd Edition (September 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1587132605
  • ISBN-13: 978-1587132605
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CCNA Voice 640-461 Official Cert Guide

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 11:22 AM PST

CCNA Voice 640 461 Official Cert Guide

Book Description

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

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. topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Preparation Tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly.

  • Master 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 infrastructure
  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express
  • CUCM Express IP phone configuration and voice productivity features
  • Gateways and trunks
  • Cisco Unity Express
  • Smart 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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Buy and Hedge

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 11:22 AM PST

Buy and Hedge

Book Description

If you’re trying to build wealth, sharp market downturns are your worst enemy. And nowadays, they’re happening far more often: in the last 18 years, the S&P 500 has experienced sixteen violent declines. Institutions and professional investors have mastered powerful hedging techniques for dramatically reducing the risks of market volatility. Now, you can do it, too–and you can’t afford not to. In Buy and Hedge, two leading investment experts show how to apply hedging as part of a long-term program for growing and preserving your assets. CNBC Fast guest Jay Pestrichelli and seasoned financial industry veteran Wayne Ferbert show how to systematically protect yourself against violent downward moves while giving your portfolio maximum room to run in upward markets. The authors’ techniques are easy to use, can be applied to most investment vehicles, and–once implemented–require surprisingly little “care and feeding.” You’ll discover how to take advantage of the hedge-building mechanisms built into low-cost index funds… invest in your ideas with confidence, because you’ve hedged the downside… systematically manage portfolios for risk as well as return… master and apply the “5 Iron Rules of Buy & Hedge”… use options to manage risk, not to create excess leverage… generate more dividends… effectively manage cash… and much more!

From the Back Cover

Grow Your Assets and Reduce Your Risks the Way Top Managers Do

"This book is an absolute must read for investors in today's markets. Wayne and Jay provide a clearcut set of rules for investing that reduce portfolio volatility and provide the formula for superior long-term performance. Don't just buy and hold—Buy and Hedge!"
—Joe Moglia, Chairman and former CEO, TD Ameritrade

"'Buy and hold': How many times have you heard that phrase? If the last ten years have taught us anything it's that 'buy and hold' has become as obsolete as a VCR. In Buy and Hedge: The 5 Iron Rules for Investing Over the Long Term, Jay Pestrichelli and Wayne Ferbert have provided the average investor with a road map for success in today's turbulent markets. Over the years I have learned that there are no magic bullets for investing, but this book highlights common sense and winning strategies that will protect and grow your hard earned cash."
—Guy Adami, CNBC's Fast Money

"In the current financial climate, truth and trust are the most valuable commodities, and risk trumps reward chasing. This book and the authors hit on all cylinders."
—Todd Harrison, Founder and CEO, Minyanville Media

"If you are a beginner, [this book] will introduce you to concepts you may have never even considered in a straightforward, easy to understand manner. And if you have been investing for yourself for years, you will still find the discussion of risk and the advanced tactics enlightening. Buy and Hedge is a great resource that you will consult time and again as you master each tactic."
—Pete Ricketts, TD Ameritrade Board member, Chicago Cubs Board member, and former COO, Ameritrade

"Buy and Hedge provides individual investors an alternative method to manage risk in their portfolios. This book comes at a critical time as markets have become more volatile and more individuals are managing their own money."
—Christopher Larkin, Senior Vice President, ETRADE Securities

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press (September 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0132825244
  • ISBN-13: 978-0132825245
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High Performance Operations

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 11:21 AM PST

High Performance Operations

Book Description

Companies in highly regulated industries face unique challenges in optimizing performance and profitability while maintaining strong governance and regulatory adherence. In this start-to-finish guidebook, leading performance consultant Hillel Glazer shows how to achieve these goals through the successful integration of lean and systems thinking. Written for operations managers, process professionals, and lean systems managers, Glazer shows how to systematically incorporate compliance into planning for overall performance, value, and profitability, rather than viewing compliance as an end in itself. High Performance Operations will help operations professionals and managers:

  • Clarify the competing interests that challenge them, and implement pre-conditions for success.
  • Learn how a systems-thinking approach can promote achieve operational excellence.
  • Uncover the “secret sauce” that enables great organizations to scale their successes, eliminate single points of failure, and get more of “what went right”.
  • Define what value and operational excellence look like in their organizations, and all the costs of achieving them.
  • Create solutions, establish proof-of-performance, justify investments, measure performance, and implement continuous improvement.
  • Translate solutions into working policies, patterns, processes, and procedures.

From the Back Cover

“Hillel Glazer has deftly synthesized all that he’s learned from flying, building planes, engineering complex systems, and years of consulting to help organizations to be lean and focused on performance. I believe Hillel is a clear-eyed radical who loves what he wants to reform. You can sense his exasperation at all that is wasteful and wrong in organizations, even as he patiently helps us to find a profitable way through it.”
–Eileen C. Forrester, author of CMMI for Services, Carnegie Mellon University

“Hillel Glazer sets about busting the myth that regulated industries and high performance operations are mutually exclusive. As a tax payer, I personally hope this book is widely read and its ideas rapidly adopted!”
–David J. Anderson, author of Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for your Technology

“This is one book I’ve definitely been waiting for! Hillel Glazer shares the results of his reflections on dozens of improvement journeys, identifying what separates the operationally excellent organization from the wannabes. This book can help make your CMMI or ISO-based improvement program result in superior performance and ‘compliance for free!’”
–Michael D. Konrad, PhD, Chief Architect, Capability Maturity Model Integration, Carnegie Mellon University

“Hillel Glazer’s easy-to-read book emphasizes systems thinking in improving performance–critical key to success in our increasingly complex and challenging business environment.”
–Paul D. Nielsen, Director and CEO, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

“By applying key systems engineering principles to process , High Performance Operations takes a pragmatic systems approach to doing business in today’s compliance-heavy environment. Hillel Glazer provides a refreshingly different take on the path to business excellence.”
–Richard Turner, Distinguished Service Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, and coauthor of Balancing Agility and Discipline and CMMI Survival Guide

Most regulated businesses struggle to pursue both compliance and operational excellence. But these goals aren’t–or shouldn’t be–separate. This book shows how to harmonize them in a high performance operation, where compliance becomes a by-product of excellence, not a costly tradeoff against it.

Hillel Glazer helps you gain a far deeper understanding of the complicated and complex adaptive system you’re currently running–and then reassemble its components and services for optimal performance. Drawing on powerful insights from systems engineering, he shows how to strengthen what’s working, stop doing what doesn’t work, and create a systemic, lean, optimized solution for your entire operation.

Glazer’s Process Solutioneering® methodology has delivered exceptional value to enterprises in industries ranging from manufacturing to healthcare, to transportation, aerospace to e-commerce, and IT to public safety services. If you want the same results, High Performance Operations shows you how to get them.

  • Custom-tailor unified systems that achieve compliance and excellence.
    Create elegant, robust, long-term solutions to address both competing interests
  • Refocus on purposes and outcomes, not just practices
    Get beyond “creating artifacts” to deeper, more lasting success
  • Successfully synthesize your operation’s three primary components
    Master and optimize business cycles, work effort cycles, and process cycles

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press (September 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0132779889
  • ISBN-13: 978-0132779883
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The Inner Voice of Trading

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 11:21 AM PST

The Inner Voice of Trading

Book Description

Want to be a successful trader? It’s not enough to master generic trading strategies: you must first know yourself. You must understand your own emotional predilections and psychological tendencies. You must learn how to match your strategies to your own personality. You must choose strategies that are sustainable over the long haul, that you can tolerate–and execute.

Michael Martin’s The Inner Voice of Trading explains why deep self-knowledge is so crucial to successful trading, helps you gain that self-knowledge, and guides you in applying it. Drawing on interviews and discussions with great traders like Michael Marcus and Ed Seykota, he shows how to quiet your mind, develop an “inner voice” you can rely on, and make it your most important trading ally.

From the Back Cover
"In The Inner Voice of Trading, Michael Martin recounts his own quest to become a successful trader, illuminating his journey with engaging trading episodes. Join Martin at his trading desk as he provides important insights into the art and science of balancing thoughts and feelings—and catching the big one."
—Ed Seykota

"Some people and either don't or can't teach; some people teach and have never traded; Michael Martin can teach extremely well and is an experienced trader. This rare combo is a necessity to those who want to succeed in the markets. Read and learn!"
—Victor Sperandeo, Founder, Alpha Financial Technologies, LLC

"The Inner Voice of Trading provides insights that may help both discretionary and systematic traders adhere to their extensively researched and tested trading programs and be better insulated from their occasional emotional (fear, greed, pride, and so on) temptations to deviate into uncharted waters."
—Bill Dunn, DUNN Capital

"Michael Martin provides a toolbox to fortify the most important aspect of successful trading: the six inches between your ears. With fresh insights from many of the market's greatest traders, The Inner Voice of Trading will put you on the path to improving your profits and losses."
—John Del Vecchio, Portfolio Manager, AdvisorShares Active Bear ETF

"Too many new and developing traders move from strategy to strategy in the hope of improving their under performance. In The Inner Voice of Trading, Michael Martin helps us understand how we first must work on ourselves before we can become the trader we want to be. Find a place in your trading library for this latest gift to the trading community."
—Mike Bellafiore, Partner, SMB Capital, and Author of One Good

Trading is 20% intellectual and 80% psychological. Success begins with the ancient Greek adage: know thyself. Rote, mechanical trading models set you up for failure. To succeed, you must harmonize your trading systems with your emotions. By doing so, you can achieve the inner calm and confidence that translates directly into better decisions—and higher profits.

This book will help you find your inner voice as a trader, so you can act on what your systems tell you and crisply execute winning strategies without hesitation.

Michael Martin examines your most common trading decisions from an emotional standpoint, helping you "feel the feelings" driving your actions—feelings that often have nothing to do with . Through compelling interviews, you'll discover how legendary traders, such as Ed Seykota and Michael Marcus, integrate reason and emotion to make better trades every day—and how you can do it, too.

  • Traders are humans first
    How your trades reflect the human propensity to pursue pleasure and avoid pain
  • Choosing strategies you can sustain over time
    How to find trading approaches you can tolerate—and consistently execute
  • Letting go: You don't need to be right all the time
    Stop seeking validation from your trades—that's not what they're for
  • Reducing your losses through self-discipline and surrender
    How emotionally aware traders improve performance by keeping their losses small

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press (September 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0132616254
  • ISBN-13: 978-0132616256
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