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A complete guide to the CCNA Wireless exam by leading networking authority Todd Lammle

The CCNA Wireless certification is the most respected entry-level certification in this rapidly growing field. Todd Lammle is the undisputed authority on networking, and this book focuses exclusively on the skills covered in this Cisco certification exam.

The CCNA Wireless Study Guide joins the popular Sybex study guide family and helps network administrators advance their careers with a highly desirable certification.

• The CCNA Wireless certification is the most respected entry-level wireless certification for system administrators looking to advance their careers

• Written by Todd Lammle, the leading networking guru and author of numerous bestselling certification guides

• Provides in-depth coverage of every exam objective and the technology developed by Cisco for wireless networking

• Covers WLAN fundamentals, installing a basic Cisco wireless LAN and wireless clients, and implementing WLAN security

• Explains the operation of basic WCS, basic WLAN maintenance, and troubleshooting

• Companion CD includes the Sybex Test Engine, flashcards, and entire book in PDF format

• Includes hands-on labs, end-of-chapter review questions, Exam Essentials overview, Real World Scenarios, and a tear-out objective map showing where each exam objective is covered

The CCNA Wireless Study Guide prepares any network administrator for exam success.

The complete guide to a winning pay-per-click marketing campaign

Pay-per-click advertising-the "sponsored results" on search engine results pages-is increasingly being used to drive traffic to websites. Marketing and advertising professionals looking for a hands-on, task-based guide to every stage of creating and managing a winning PPC campaign will get the step-by-step instruction they need in this detailed guide.

Using the popular An Hour A Day format, this book helps you avoid the pitfalls and plan, develop, implement, manage, and monitor a PPC campaign that gets results.

• Successful pay-per-click campaigns are a key component of online marketing

• This guide breaks the project down into manageable tasks, valuable for the small-business owner as well as for marketing officers and consultants

• Explains core PPC concepts, industry trends, and the mechanics that make a campaign work

• Shows how to perform keyword research, structure campaigns, and understand campaign settings and various pricing models

• Discusses how to write ads, develop and test landing pages, use ad groups, and leverage Google's content network

• Covers launching a campaign, bidding for position, monitoring, gathering results, and interpreting and acting on the data collected

Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Marketing: An Hour a Day provides the tools to make the most of this important marketing method.

If you liked this Short, you might also like Reengineering Health Care: A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery by Jim Champy and Dr. Harry Greenspun (ISBN: 978-0-13-705265-3). Available in print and digital formats.

Physicians are central to true health care reform that saves lives and lowers costs. Will they lead? Yes!

Today, both patients and clinicians navigate an increasingly complex maze of care deliverers, at a cost and risk we can no longer afford. Recent health care reform legislation focuses largely on changing incentives and reimbursement. The real burden of innovation falls on providers. Real reform that dramatically improves efficiency and safety can only be accomplished by clinicians. Are physicians open to change? Our answer is a resounding yes….

If you liked this Short, you might also like Reengineering Health Care: A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery by Jim Champy and Dr. Harry Greenspun (ISBN: 978-0-13-705265-3). Available in print and digital formats.

Why health care must be systematically reengineered—and how to build a system that’s both financially stable and delivers far better care!

The only answer to health care’s impending financial crisis is for hospitals and clinicians to become dramatically more efficient. But these changes should not be driven by fear. They should be driven by an inspired vision of the future of care delivery. Imagine a health care system that is truly patient-centric, where patients are educated about their own care and helped to navigate its complexity….

My iPad provides expert advice and easy to follow, full-color tasks with ample illustrations to get your iPad rockin' in no time.

• Everything users need to know to use iTunes and the new iPad device

• Full-color, step by step format with plenty of visuals to help with even the trickiest of tasks

• Will cover the new program called iBook, which comes with its own iBook Store (very similar to iTunes) 

The iPad is a unique and totally revolutionary devise in many ways. The iPad is a tablet computer featuring multi-touch interaction with print, video, photo, and audio multimedia, internet browsing, and runs most iPhone OS apps. The device has an LED-backlit 9.7-inch (25 cm) color LCD display and uses a virtual keyboard for text input. The iPad like the iTouch uses a Multi-touch interface that enables users to easily control the device and type with their fingers. It also includes sensors that automatically re-orient the screen display to match the orientation of the iPad, such as switching to landscape view when the user rotates the iPad 90 degrees when watching video. All iPad models include the applications Music, iWork, Videos, Photos, iTunes, iBook (providing access to the Wi-Fi Music Store and book store), Safari, YouTube, Calendar, Contacts, Clock, Calculator, and Settings. My iPad will include necessary coverage of iTunes and iBook to enable readers to manage the content on their iPad as well as purchase applications and customizing settings. In addition, readers will learn how to use every feature of their iPad and receive expert advice on topics like customizing, running apps, using peripheral devices and more.

This bestselling tutorial for beginning to intermediate programmers teaches you how to use the new version of the C# language to build web, desktop, and rich Internet applications with the .NET 4.0 Framework. The sixth edition covers the latest enhancements to the language, as well as the fundamentals of both C# and .NET, and concurrent programming with C# 4.0. You'll also learn how to use C# with .NET tools such as the Entity Framework and the Silverlight platform.

Written by a key member of the Microsoft patterns & practices Enterprise Library version 5 development team.

The new edition of this best-selling guide to Ubuntu for beginners covers Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx. Grant tackles topics likely to be of interest to the average desktop user such as installing software; connecting to the Internet; working with flash drives, printers, and scanners; burning CDs and DVDs; playing audio and video; using iPods; customization; and even a bit of the command line. Based on reader feedback, this edition includes even more screenshots and visuals; more troubleshooting help; more specific tips and tricks; and a bit more technical stuff, in plain English of course.

This book includes videos. Click here to access the accompanying video.

Master the fundamentals of Photoshop CS5 with One-on-One, Deke McClelland's unique and effective learning system. This book includes step-by-step tutorials, hours of video demonstrations, and lots of hands-on projects to help you improve your knowledge and hone your skills. Once you read about a particular technique, watch the video to see how it's done -- then try it yourself.

Capture, automate, and reuse your business processes in a clear English language that your computer can understand.

• An easy-to-understand JBoss Drools business rules tutorial for non-programmers

• Automate your business processes such as order processing, supply management, staff activity, and more

• Prototype, test, and implement workflows by themselves using business rules that are simple statements written in an English-like language

• Discover advanced features of Drools to write clear business rules that execute quickly

• For confident users of Excel or other business software, this book is everything you need to learn JBoss Drools business rules and successfully automate your business.

In Detail

In business, a lot of actions are trigged by rules: "Order more ice cream when the stock is below 100 units and temperature is above 25° C", "Approve credit card application when the credit background check is OK, past relationship with the customer is profitable, and identity is confirmed", and so on. Traditional computer programming languages make it difficult to translate this "natural language" into a software program. But JBoss Rules (also known as Drools) enables anybody with basic IT skills and an understanding of the business to turn statements such as these into running computer code.

This book will teach you to specify business rules using JBoss Drools, and then put them into action in your business. You will be able to create rules that trigger actions and decisions, based on data that comes from a variety of sources and departments right across your business. Regardless of the size of your business, you can make your processes more effective and manageable by adopting JBoss Rules.

Banks use business rules to process your mortgage (home loan) application, and to manage the process through each step (initial indication of amount available, actual application, approval of the total according to strict rules regarding the amount of income, house value, previous repayment record, swapping title deeds, and so on).

Countries such as Australia apply business rules to visa applications (when you want to go and live there)—you get points for your age, whether you have a degree or masters, your occupation, any family members in the country, and a variety of other factors.

Supermarkets apply business rules to what stock they should have on their shelves and where—this depends upon analyzing factors such as how much shelf space there is, what location the supermarket is in, what people have bought the week before, the weather forecast for next week (for example, ice cream in hot weather), and what discounts the manufacturers are giving.

This book shows how you can use similar rules and processes in your business or organization. It begins with a detailed, clear explanation of business rules and how JBoss Rules supports them.

You will then see how to install and get to grips with the essential software required to use JBoss Rules. Once you have mastered the basic tools, you will learn how to build practical and effective of the business rule systems.

The book provides clear explanations of business rule jargon. You will learn how to work with Decision Tables, Domain-Specifi c Languages (DSL)s, the Guvnor and JBoss Integrated Development Environment (IDE), workflow and much more.

By the end of the book you will know exactly how to harness the power of JBoss Rules in your business.