Superior Training
Materials
· From
Microsoft, the application vendor
· Supports
internationally recognized certification exams
· In
widespread use, so the bugs are known, and trainers can share notes
On Your Local Machine
· Do it when
you want to
· At your own
pace
· No internet
connection needed
Personal Mentoring
· Top
quality instructors who know the material, and have used it in the
real world
· Considered
opinions, not just off-the-cuff answers
· Personal
attention
· Growing
knowledge base and FAQ from previous students
Uses Virtual Machine
Technology
· Portable:
take the machine home or to work as you like (requires portable hard
disk)
· Simple
to setup - less than 15 minutes
· Real
software, so you can explore the things that interest you
· Fully
functional - not limited by needs of other students
· VirtualPC
- now from Microsoft - so products are supported in this environment
· Run
multiple virtual machines on your PC if the course requires it
· Setup
is proven: the labs all work (and you can reset it if you make a
mess of the machine)
· In
May 2004 Microsoft announced that all future MOC courses would use
Virtual PCs – so they agree that this is a great way to do training!
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Microsoft's courses come with a course schedule for fulltime learning -
so a ‘5 day’ course would take 5 full time days to complete. We measure
the length of each course based on those full time days, but with
InTheSandbox you can go slower or faster, based both on how much extra
exploration you want to do, how much time you can devote to learning,
and your preferred pace.
You work through the course when you
have time - weekends, nights - whatever works for you. We advise people
to do at least the equivalent of a full day each week, so that a 5 day
course can be finished in 5 weeks.
InTheSandbox provide the software
needed for the course fully installed and configured inside a Microsoft
VirtualPC hard drive - so you get real software, all set up for doing
the labs and exercises in the course.
The virtual hard drives are highly
optimised, to maximise performance, and we provide both instructions and
mentoring for getting it all going.
If you seriously mess up, you can
just make a fresh copy of the virtual hard drive and be back with a
machine that is ready to go in only minutes.
Our mentors assist you via a Windows
Sharepoint Services site: you post questions to the bulletin board which
the mentor responds to within 24 hours. This way you aren't left on your
own. You have someone who can explain things to you a different way, or
help you to complete an exercise. Besides knowing the courseware, our
mentors are all real engineers/developers (not full time trainers), and
have experience to share. Over time, the Sharepoint site is
accumulating valuable FAQ, and other value adds. This includes links to
relevant material for further study, expansion exercises, hints and tips
and so on.
If you are interested in
certification, our mentors can provide some exam preparation tips, and -
optionally - we can also (for a charge) provide access to practice
exams. The mentors are all MCSE/MCSD themselves as well as being
Microsoft Certified Trainers, and definitely have passed the exam for
the course they teach - believe it or not, that isn't a Microsoft
requirement of the training companies anymore!
InTheSandbox costs roughly half the
price of live MOC training – so it is cost effective, too!
Download a draft
video demonstration of InTheSandbox -
watch online or download.
There are over 130 courses available to be studied via
InTheSandbox ...
click here for the list! |
