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Need to know what RAID is.  RAID stands or stood for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical disk drive components into a single logical unit for the purposes of data redundancy, performance improvement, or both.  It provides a way of storing the same data in different places (thus, redundantly) on multiple hard disks (though not all RAID levles provide redundancy).  By placing data on multiple disks, input/output I/O operations can overlap in a balanced way, improving performance.  Since multiple disks increase the mean time between failures MTBF (mean time between failures), storing data redundantly also increases fault tolerances.  

Knowledge of operating system installations.

Replacing failed hardware.

Basic networking.

These jobs come with a cornucopia of acronynms.  Crazy number.  Here's one, MoUS.  What is it?  Memorandum of Understanding.  It describes a bilateral or multilateral agreement between two or more parties.  It expresses a convergence of will between the parties, indicating an intended common line of action.  It is often used in cases where parties either do not imply a legal commitment or in situations where the parties cannot create a legally enforceable agreement.  It is a more formal alternative to a gentlemen's agreement.

Whether or not a document constitutes a binding contract depends only on the presence or absence of well-designed legal elements in the text proper of the document (the so-called "four-corners").  The required elements are: offer and acceptance, consideration, and the intention to be legally bound (animus contrahendi).  In the U.S., the specifics can differ slightly depending on whether the contract is for goods (falls under the Uniform Commercial Code [UCC] or services (falls under the common law of the state).

EMCSA, Storage Administrator Specialist.

MCITP, Microsoft Certified IT Professional is a credential that proves that an individual has a complete set of skils required to perform a particular IT job role, such as enterprise or visualization administrator.   

CCNA, Cisco Certified Network Associate.

VCP5-DCV, VNware Certified Professional--Data Center Virtualization.

JNCIA, the Juniper Networks Certified Associate--Junos (JNCIA-Junos) is the entry-level credential required to continue to the advanced certifications in our Junos.

CISM, Certified Information Security Manager.

CCEE, Citrix Certified Expert Visualization.  Could also refer to Citrix Certified Enterprise Engineer.

Keywords: A+, Network+, CTT+, MCSE, MCDBA, MOUS, MCT, VCP, VCAP, VCI, EMCSA, CCNA, CCIE, CISM, CISA, CCA, CCEE, CEH, ITIL, CCDA, RHCSA, VCP-DCV, JNCIA, MCTS, MCITP, CCNP, WCNA

AS A DESKTOP SUPPORT, YOU WILL
Provide technical computer support, such as configuration, installation and troubleshooting of computer hardware and software.

Provide support to IT users for all aspects of end-user computing and desktop based software.


Provide audio/visual support and operations throughout the Company service area. 


Participates in the testing and evaluation of new hardware and software. Documents solutions to problems and develops end-user guidelines. 


Perform intermediate computer hardware, software and peripheral setups, installations, and configurations (i.e. monitors, keyboards, scanners, disk drives, etc.). 


Perform diagnosis, preventive maintenance and networking troubleshooting. 


Perform installation, configuration, maintenance and support of printers and scanners. 


Perform installation, configuration, maintenance and support of audio visual equipment. 


Respond to incidents concerning computer operation and applies troubleshooting principles and techniques to diagnose hardware, software and operator problems. 


Provide updates, status and completion information to supervisor and users via voicemail, email or in person. 


Update problem call tracking system. Performs troubleshooting of connectivity problems such as LAN connections, WiFi, Bluetooth, air cards, VPN connections and serial communications. 


Perform hardware asset inventory control procedures. 


Collaborate with more experienced technicians to solve complex computer and network connectivity problems. 


Consult with more experienced technicians regarding selection of hardware and software products to address business requirements. 


Assist in maintaining assets. Serves as a technical resource on project teams. 


Perform work by traveling independently or with a small crew to various locations as scheduled. 

This general overview only includes essential functions of the job and does not imply that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. 

ESSENTIAL SKILLS
Thorough knowledge in Microsoft infrastructure
Active Directory
Group Policy Objects
Exchange Server
Networking

Powershell scripting is a strong plus

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
     Be able to understand basic computer terminology and identify hardware and peripherals. 
     Basic fundamentals of Windows operating systems. 
     Be proficient with the Microsoft Office suite. 
     Dress and act in a professional manner. 
     Provide great friendly customer service. 

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
     Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/jQuery
     Familiarity with MySQL.  See it here.
     Experience using CVS (open source) [Concurrent Versions System], (Apache) Subversion, or Git (source control system?).  Lynda.com does have a small course on Git.  Wikipedia states

Git (/grt/) is a version control system that is used for software development and other version control tasks.  As a distributed revision control system it is aimed a speed, data integrity, and support for distributed, non-linear workflows.

Experience with test-driven development and Agile methodologies
Enthusiasm for working collaboratively within a scrum team.  On Agile, it is specific to developers.  Where have I been?  Here is the movement:

Agile is not a methodology!  The Agile movement seeks alternatives to traditional project management.  Agile approaches help teams repond to unpredictability through incremental, iterative work cadences, known as sprints.  Agile methodologies are an alternative to waterfall, or traditional sequential development.  

And here is Wikipedia on Agile.  

Solid experience with TCP/IP-based networking [Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol], including [Network] provisioning and [here], Configuration [NCM], [Network] load balancing, fire-walling and troubleshooting. Okay, first on TCP/IP: 

Short for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, TCP/IP is a set of rules (protocols) governing communications among all computers on the internet. More specifically, TCP/IP dictates how information should be packaged (turned into bundles of information called packets), sent, and received, as well as how to get to its destination.  TCP/IP was developed in 1978 and driven by Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf. 

Experience in Windows as well as Linux platform administration. 
Experience managing and building physical (data center), cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
     
Good understanding of AWS [Amazon Web Services]/Azure [is Microsoft's cloudsharing] concepts: virtual appliances, provisioning, AMI [American Megatrends Inc.] management, etc.


Good knowledge of Internet, security and e-mail protocols such as DNS [Domain Name System], HTTP [HyperText Transfer Protocol], SMTP [Simple Mail Transfer Protocol], IPsec [Internet Protocol Security], certificates, etc.
     
Knowledge of PCI [Payment Card Industry] compliance and protocols [PCI & DSS, Data Security Standard], and their relevance and impact to IT policies.
     
Experience in building and deploying software updates.
    
Strong and methodical troubleshooting skills.
     
Thorough understanding of key platform concepts such as performance, redundancy, fail-over, throughput and the myriad of factors impacting them

CERTIFICATIONS
     CompTIA A+ Cert
     Networking + Cert
     Cloud Cert [and here]
     WireShark Certificate Network Analyst, WCNA

For Data, these tools were suggested for a Data Analyst job with UPS in Santa Fe Springs:

1.  Good Data.
2.  Tableau.
3.  Domo. 

4.  International Package Logistics.

A tutoring site had these programs, listed in this order at their Craigslist page:

1.  Java I 
2.  Java II
3.  Python
4.  Web Programming - HTML & CSS
5.  C++

Here's a new opportunity for you to check out.

Position: Production Artist ( eCommerce Catalog )
Location: Orange County (Central)
Status: Freelance
Estimated Duration: Approximately 6 Weeks (Potential Extension)
Starts: Monday, July 25, 2016
Rate: $17-$22/hr depending on experience

Job Description:  PRODUCTION ARTIST

Our client, a lifestyle retail company, is seeking an on-site freelance Production Artist to assist their team. 

Production Artist will be responsible for eCommerce catalog layout, along with simple photo editing/color correction (product & model--flat shots). 

Qualified Production Artists must have 1-3 years of related experience, and must be proficient within Creative Suite [these need to be learned] and Lightroom and here on MAC.

Experience within EasyCatalog is a PLUS!

LinkedIn buys Lynda.com, the best money spent?  

And with advanced tools such as funnels and attribution, you can see exactly how all the pages on your site are working with or against you. At its core, Google Analytics helps you understand what's working and what isn't.

Blog might be driving traffic, or a competitor might be poaching traffic.

SEO and Paid Ads.  Paid Ads?  Google Adwords? 

5 Categories:
1)  E-Commerce.
2)  Lead Generation.
3)  Content Publishing.
4)  Online information.
5)  Branding.

For ecommerce, your objective is to sell products or services.  

You'll use Google Analytics to find ways to increase those sales and track your performance over time. For lead generation, your aim is to collect user information, and you'll test strategies and the landing pages to find a working combination. For content publishers, the goal is to encourage repeat visits and engagement. So you'll be tracking what keeps people clicking and interacting with the site. For online information, it's important that users find what they're looking for when they need it.

So you'll be interested in what content they're finding or not finding. And for branding, the key objective is awareness and loyalty. Is your site being shared, linked to, and engaged with on the greater web? It's more than just looking at how many people visit your site. That information is just a fraction of what you'll need to make informed decisions. Every site will have actions, and Google Analytics tracks all of those actions. And then it boils it down into easy-to-understand reports.

This equips you with the right data to understand what you need to do to improve the outcome of your site.

Four Components of Google Analytics:
1)  Data Collection.
2)  Configuration.
3)  Data Processing. 
4)  Reporting. 

To track a website, Google analytics uses asmall snippet of JavaScript code. You'll place this code on every page of your website, and when a user arrives, the code comes alive and starts to collect data on how the user engages with your site.

Some of the data comes from the website itself, like the URL of the pages that the user is viewing. Other data is collected from the user's browser, like the language the browser is set to, the browser name, and the device and operating system used to access the site, and this is how you can see, say, if most of your users are Mac or PC, or iPhone or Android. The JavaScript can also collect information on what content is viewed, for how long, and even the referring source that brought the user to the site in the first place, say, a blog that linked to your site, or a Facebook post.

All of this information is then pushed to Google Analytic servers to await processing. Google looks at each piece of data as an interaction or a hit, and every time your user visits a new page on your site, the code collects and sends new or updated information about the user's activity. And now that Google has all of this information, they'll start processing it, and this can take anywhere from four to twenty-four hours. You can think of processing as the step that takes all of this raw information and turns it into something useful.

From there, Google will organize the information. It's going to categorize users by whether they're new or returning, it'll determine their length of the stay on the site, and it'll even link together all the pages they viewed in the order they view them in. It's also at this stage thatGoogle applies any configuration settings you've preset for that raw data, and we're going to talk more on those later, but an example of this would be if you want to exclude, say, yourself,or your office from appearing in your reports. Once your data is then processed, it's going to be stored in a database.

From here, the last element is reporting, and this is what we'll be spending the majority of this course looking at. You're going to be accessing reporting through the Google Analytics web interface, and it's there that you can interact with all of your data. Now, it is possible to grab the data using Google's API, but we're not going to be covering that in this course. Now, there's a lot more that does go on under the hood to make Google Analytic's possible. If you're really curious, you can explore Google's documentation in the Google Developer Guidelines.

It's dense reading, but it does give you an even closer look at how all of these elements work together.

First up is Attribution. And this is the process of assigning crdit for sales and conversions to touch points in those conversion paths. Essentially you're quantifying a contribution a particular channel made on your sales or conversions.

Along with Attribution, we have the Attribution Model. And this is a rule, or set of rules, that determines how credit for sales and conversions are assigned to each touch point in a users journey. There are different types of models, say, last click attribution, or, first click attribution.  Last click attribution would assign 100% credit to the final touch point before a user purchased. Say a user went to Google, looked for your site, found a blog, clicked on the blog, read another article, and then clicked on a link for your site.

There were many steps in that path and with last click attribution 100% of the credit goes to that final click. First click attribution assigns 100% of the credit to the touch point that started that conversion path, so that search to Google would get all of the credit when they click onto your site. We're gonna go deeper into that in a later chapter. 

CONVERSION
From here, let's take a look at a Conversion. This is a completed activity, online or offline, that is important to the success of your business. You might measure a conversion when someone signs up for your email newsletter, which would be a goal conversion, or makes a purchase on your site, say, an e-commerce conversion.

As you start to interact with data on Google Analytics you'll come across some definitions specific to how Google organizes your data. And the first is Dimension. 

DIMENSION
This is a descriptive attribute, or characteristic of data. Browser, landing page, and campaign are all examples of default dimensions in Google Analytics. Now another example would be a geographic location having dimensions, such as city name or state. You also have browser, exit page,screens, and sessions, which are all other examples of dimensions that are going to appear by default in Google Analytics.

TRACK an EVENT
Now Google's also going to give you the opportUnity to track an Event. And this is a type of hit used to track user interactions with your content. You might track downloads, mobile ad clicks, when someone plays a video, or, say, downloads a PDF. 

GOAL
From there you might set up a Goal. And this is a configuration setting that allows you to track the valuable actions happening on your site. Goals allow you to measure how well you're fulfilling your business objectives. You can set up individual goals to track discrete actions, like getting people to visit at least five pages of your site.

Or someone who spends at least a certain amount of money on your products. Every time a user completes a goal a conversion is logged into your Google Analytics account. So think of a goal as potentially a series of actions that must occur for you to consider it a conversion event. Now you might hear me from time to time to refer to what's known as a Hit. And this is an interaction that results in data being sent to Google Analytics. Common hit types include page-tracking, event-tracking, and, e-commerce tracking.

Each time the tracking code is triggered by a user that data is packaged into a hit and sent to Google servers. As you look deeper at this data you'll interact with what's known as a Metric.  

METRIC
This is a quantitative measurement of your data. Metrics in Google Analytics can either be sums or ratios. For example, the metric of the city dimension is going to be how many residents it has. Screen views, pages per session, an average session duration are other examples of metrics you'll find in Google Analytics.

You'll also be spending a lot of time reviewing your Pageviews. A pageview is different from visitors. This is an instance of a page being loaded, or reloaded, in a browser. Pageviews is a metric defined as the total number of pages viewed. One unique user can contribute multiple pageviews. Once we start playing with reports you'll encounter what's known as a segment.This is basically a subset of sessions, or users, that share common attributes.

SEGMENTS

Segments allow you to isolate and analyze groups of sessions, or users, for better analysis.You might segment your data by marketing channel, so that you can see which channel is responsible for an increase in purchases. Or you might segment your data by geographic region to see what parts of the country, or the world, are improving your performance. Drilling down to look at segments of your data helps you understand what causes a change to all of that aggregate data. Now if you're curious how Google understands how many page views a unique user provides, it's all about the Session.

SESSION
A session is a period of time a user is active on your site. By default, if a user is active for 30 minutes, or more, any future activity is attributed to a new session, meaning they'll be flagged as a repeat visitor. Users that leave your site and return within 30 minutes are counted as part of the original session. Now another one that you'll see all over the place, and we're going to spend a great bit of time interacting with is Source and Medium. 

SOURCE & MEDIUM
Source is the origin of your traffic, such as a search engine, for example, Google, or a particular domain name, such as, mysite.com.

The medium is the general category of the source. For example, it could be an organic search, in the case of Google, it could be social, in the case of Facebook. It could be a cost per click search, or even a referral from another website. The Source/Medium which you'll see together quite frequently, is a dimension that combines the two. Now we'll encounter more terms along the way, but these are the core concepts you'll want to be familiar with to get the most out of this course.

PROPERTY
A Property is just a website or mobile application.  One master view and one test view.  

VIEW
A view is here.
I have several Views, four in this case, and we can see a snippet of the data on the right-hand side in these columns. So, within this Account, Branded Crate, I have a Property, which just so happens to be named Branded Crate, followed by several Views.Now, you're not seeing any data associated with some of these Views, because I created them with the specific intent of showing you what it looks like when you have multiple Views,associated to a Property, associated to an Account.