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Apple Training and Certification Get Started. Get Technical. Get Certified. www.apple.com/training Contents Page 2 Welcome Page 3 Training for You Page 4 For Educators Page 5 How You Learn is Up to You Page 6 Apple Mac OS X, Xsan, and iWork Curriculum Page 7 Apple Pro Apps Curriculum Page 8 Apple Certification Paths Page 10 How to Buy Training Page 11 Become Part of the Apple Training Solution Page 12 Worldwide Contacts Get Started. Welcome Get Technical. Get Certified. Apple Training offers a comprehensive curriculum that addresses a broad range of Apple Solution technical proficiencies, whether you’re an IT or creative professional, an educator or student, or a service technician. Designed by experts, these courses will deepen your knowledge and facilitate your implementation of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system Training and professional digital applications. Together with Apple’s professional service and support offerings, our certified training Professional AppleCare Services programs help you make the most of your Apple solution. Apple Training and Certification, the focus of this catalog, develops and delivers a training curriculum that includes hand-on lab experiences, lectures, and web-based training through a worldwide network of Apple Authorized Training Centers (AATCs). We are proud to offer training and certification to support all your needs, including: Our training and certification programs • Mac OS X client deployment help you make the most of your Apple • Apple Xsan implementation and deployment solution. • Integration of Mac computers into a mixed computing environment • Requirements for Apple’s service technician programs • Expertise and certification in Apple’s professional digital media applications • Achievement of industry-recognized certification • Achievement of Apple Certified Trainer status Apple’s growing certification programs meet a wide variety of needs. Whether you’re an employer who needs to make qualified personnel decisions, a business that wants a competitive differentiator, or an individual seeking tangible proof of technical expertise, you’ll find that being Apple Certified makes a difference. Read on, or visit our website at www.apple.com/training to learn more. 2 Apple Training and Certification Get Started. Get Started. Get Technical. Training for You Get Technical. Get Certified. Get Certified. Classroom Self-paced Books Online Training Classroom Self-paced Books Online Training Classroom Self-paced Books Online Training For Digital Media Professionals For IT Professionals For Service Technicians Apple offers a tiered Apple offers technical training AppleCare Technician certification program for for professionals who are Training prepares you Apple’s professional digital applications. responsible for planning, maintaining, for the Apple Service certification exams. The supporting curriculum applies to and integrating Mac OS X, Mac OS X This easy-to-use, self-paced program creative professionals in varying capaci- Server, and Xsan into a network environ- includes training materials, diagnostic ties, including: editors, filmmakers, sound ment. The curriculum objectives support a tools, and extensive information from designers, photographers, special effects tiered certification program Apple’s own technical library. The training artists, teachers, and more. for system administrators, technical modules cover such topics as general coordinators, and support professionals. computer terminology, Apple-specific Training is available through a worldwide computer architectures, troubleshooting, network of Apple Authorized Training The hands-on curriculum is available at and preventive maintenance in a logical, Centers (AATCs), or in a self-paced format AATCs worldwide, and many AATCs offer straightforward format. Because the through the Apple Pro Training Series books training deliveries at the customer facility. training is self-paced, you have complete published by Peachpit Press. Publications Apple Training Series books released by control over your learning schedule. cover all the Apple professional digital Peachpit Press offer useful instruction and www.apple.com/support/products/ applications including Aperture, Color, DVD prepare students for certification. enterprise/help.html Studio Pro, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Server, training.apple.com Logic Pro, Motion, and Soundtrack Pro. AppleCare also offers hands-on curriculum training.apple.com through a select number of AATCs world- wide. training.apple.com “ Apple certification places you in a unique class of professionals. “ Now when I go out to do corporate It not only shows that you care videos and I let them know I’m enough about what you do to go certified, I get job after job after job.” the extra mile to get certified, it Chip McAllister, Final Cut Pro Editor also demonstrates that you really “For us, certification was a matter know your stuff.” of survival. We don’t have freight Brian Sheehan, Multimedia Studio Manager, deliveries for days on end, and we MFS Investment Management can’t wait days or weeks for help to fly in from Anchorage. We have to be able to take care of everything.” Steve Noonkesser, Apple Certified Technician, Southwest Region School District, Dillingham, Alaska Key: Classroom Self-paced Books Online Training Apple Training and Certification 3 Get Started. For Educators Get Technical. Get Certified. ClassroomClassroomSelf-paced Self-pacedBooks Online Books TraininOnlineg Training Transform your teaching, transform their learning. Apple offers 15 different Professional Development workshops. The are held onsite at your school and run from one to four days. These hands-on work- shops can be tailored to your group’s specific needs and are designed to make sure you’re using your Apple products most effectively. And all Apple Professional Development workshops qualify toward your Continuing Education Units. Taught by educators for educators. All Apple Professional Development facilitators are educators themselves. That gives them a unique view: They know what’s important in the education environment, so they can ensure that you learn about your Apple products and how they can best serve you. “Apple’s [Professional Development] consultants are knowledgeable, very user friendly, and bring a Getting Started Leading wealth of resources and experience Getting Started workshops emphasize APD helps you maximize the impact of to their workshops.” the basics of using Apple technology to your Apple technology investment. Steve Jeske, meet your classroom objectives. Professional Development Specialist, Workshops include: Vision and Plan, Austin Independent School District, TX Workshops include: Mac OS X, iLife, iWork, Implement and Manage, and Design iPod, iPad or iPhone. Curriculum. * More Information Doing More Delivery Options—The Choice Is Yours For current information, visit Doing More workshops provide faculty Workshops, Series, and Institutes–Apple familiar with basic technology integration offers a variety of approaches to suit your www.apple.com/education/apd the opportunity to enhance their skills. needs. From onsite single or two day workshops, onsite coaching, and train- Workshops include: Special Education, the-trainer Series or Institutes, Apple de- Podcasting, and Challenge Based Learn- livers content tailored for K-12. Find out ing. more: www.apple.com/education/apd. Build Your Plan The online Technology Profile gathers information on the technology skills and infusion strategies of faculty to better inform your professional development plan. Key: Classroom Self-paced Books Online Training * Apple Professional Development offerings are currently available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Asia. 4 Apple Training and Certification Get Started. Get Started. Get Technical. How You Learn is Up to You Get Technical. Get Certified. Get Certified. Classroom Self-paced Books Online Training IT, Pro Apps, and Productivity Applications Training Several delivery options are available for instructor-led training on Mac OS X, Self-Paced Resources Mac OS X Server, Xsan, iWork, and Apple’s professional applications Peachpit Press (Aperture, Color, DVD Studio Pro, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Server, Logic Pro, Motion, and Offered as a self-paced learning Soundtrack Pro). tool and reference guide, the Apple Open Enrollment Training Series and Apple Pro Training Courses are taught by Apple Certified Trainers and offered continually at Apple Series books are used in all instructor- Authorized Training Centers (AATCs) worldwide. led courses. The two series include more than 25 titles and are a key part Onsite Training of Apple’s official curriculum for Pro If a number of individuals need to be trained, you may opt to purchase an onsite Apps and IT. delivery at your location. Education customers can also host or attend a coordinated onsite delivery in your area. Coordinated onsites enable customers from various To view all titles and save 30 percent departments or schools to attend an onsite delivery at one nearby location. on all Apple Training titles, visit Many AATCs offer onsite training. www.peachpit.com and enter coupon code PP-APL-DISC at checkout. Some advantages to holding onsite training at your location include: All books are also available on the • Convenience iBookstore. Visit the iBookstore on • Cost savings your iPad or iPhone and search for • ClassroomPrivacy Self-paced Books Online Training “Apple Training” or “Apple Pro Train- ing.” AppleCare Technician Training AppleCare Technician Training provides