The Business Start Up Training Package - IT Edition

This is our IT Edition of the Business Start Up Training Package to ensure you have a full understanding of IT and Networking concepts that are key in today's business environment.

Complete Business Essentials

• Where to Begin
• Starting Your Business Plan
• Research and Your Target Market
• Branding
• Goal Setting
• Options with Financing
• Dealing with Accounts and Money
• The Importance of Marketing and Social Media
• Staffing
• Dealing with the Legalities
• Dealing with Tax
• Dealing with Insurance
• Using Technology
• The Importance of Ethics
• Dealing with Your Website
• Growing Your Business and Moving Forward

PRINCE2®

The PRINCE2® course comes with 12 full interactive lessons covering every aspect of the official syllabus from Axelos.

• Getting started & Introduction to PRINCE2®
• Processes SU and IP
• Processes CS and MP
• Processes DP, SB & CP
• Organisation Theme
• Business Case Theme
• Risk Theme
• Plans Theme
• Quality Theme
• Change Theme
• Progress Theme
• Exam Preparation and Approaches

CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+

• Common PC components and how they are assembled to create a working computer.
• Component configurations that improve performance and system compatibility.
• How to build a simple network to share data between PCs.
• Installing, configuring and managing the Microsoft Windows operating system on a desktop PC.
• Applying Group Policies to prevent data and settings being accessed or altered by unauthorised users.
• Monitoring and maintaining PCs to identify and resolve potential problems early.
• Physical network cable types and the situations in which each would be used.
• Building LANs and WANs and the correct topology to use for a specific business need.
• How to monitor and manage the traffic passing through network hardware to ensure a consistently high performance for service users.
• The basic principles of network security, using features built-in to routers and switches to prevent unauthorised access and data theft.
• Including network security as a basic design consideration.
• Identifying compliance needs for data and network security and building appropriate safeguards.
• Familiarisation with common network threats and vulnerabilities and how they can be blocked or minimised.
• The three levels of security considerations – application, data and host – and how each is to be protected.
• How user accounts and security groups can limit data access to authorised parties and raise security standards.
• The use of encryption to protect sensitive data against unauthorised access or theft.

Marketing and Google Analytics

• Marketing with Social Media
• Marketing Tools and Tips for Success
• Google Analytics
• Facebook
• Marketing with Google, YouTube, Reddit, Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn and Tumblr.

ITIL® Foundation

The ITIL® Foundation course provides students with comprehensive first-level training guaranteeing them a good understand of ITIL® principles and how they can be applied to improve and formalise IT service operations.

• The service management lifecycle and the key stages used to manage service requests
• Defining a service strategy that meets the needs of all users of the IT service
• Implementing a service that supports the strategy
• Building intermediate delivery services that maintain standards during the transition period
• The operations required to maintain customers expected levels of service and transition
• Building a continual service improvement plan that keeps raising standards and customer satisfaction levels.

Cisco CCNA

The course starts with the CCENT/ICND1, students will learn:
• Operation of data networks, recognize the purpose and functions of various network devices such as routers, switches, bridges hubs. How to describe the purpose and operation of the protocols in the OSI and TCP/IP models
• The importance of IPv4/IPv6 in IP Addressing and how to implement them.
• How to implement Variable Length Subnet Masks (VLSM)
• How to improve network performance using VLANs and Trunks.
• The use of Open Shortest Path First (OPSF) routing.
• How to properly understand network protocol application and management.
• How to configure and verify network device security features.
• How to troubleshoot and correct common problems associated with IP addressing and host configurations.

The course then breaks into the second module, ICND2:
• Administration and licensing of Cisco hardware devices and management tools.
• Troubleshooting IPv4/IPv6 network connectivity.
• Configuration of clients for SNMP, Syslog, Netflow, OSPF and EIGRP according to specific business needs.
• LAN Switching Technologies – the use of Spanning Tree protocol and Etherchannel.
• The application of Layer 3 redundancy protocols to improve network resilience.

Small business owners, entrepreneurs or anyone who is looking to start up their own business.

There are no requirements or prerequisites for this course.

Once this package is completed you will have a full understanding of the key components of how to run a business and be able to actively apply those concepts.