Discounted Professional Certifications for Alumni

Business Analytics, SAS VA, SAS Visual Analytics

Suggested pace is 4 hours per week  / approx. 3 months. 

Price: $450*             

* Special Pricing: $300
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)

Cybersecurity is one of the most in-demand career fields. Gain the technical skills to become job-ready for a Cybersecurity Analyst role. Instructional content and labs will introduce you to concepts including network security, endpoint protection, incident response, threat intelligence, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessment. Learn to:

Information Security Analyst, IT Security Analyst, Security Analyst, Junior Cybersecurity Analyst, Information Security (INFOSEC), IBM New Collar, Malware, Cybersecurity, Cyber Attacks, Database Vulnerabilities, Network Security, SQL Injection

 Suggested pace is 4 hours per week  / approx. 8 months. 

Price: $450*   

* Special Pricing: $300
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)

Performance Advertising, Digital Marketing, Brand Management, Social Media Marketing, Content Marketing, Marketing, Social Media Marketing Strategy, Content Development, Content Management, Marketing Content Development, Campaign Management, Ad Management

 Suggested pace is 2 hours per week  / approx. 7 months. 

Price: $450*          

* Special Pricing: $300
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)

Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine (GAE), Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Computing, Create and Understand Custom IAM Roles, Secure a Kubernetes Environment, Create and Configure Network Peering

 Suggested pace is 4 hours per week  / approx. 5 months. 

Price: $450*         

* Special Pricing: $300
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)

Using Version Control, Troubleshooting & Debugging, Python Programming, Configuration Management, Automation, Basic Python Data Structures, Fundamental Programming Concepts, Basic Python Syntax, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Setting up your Development Environment, Regular Expression (REGEX), Testing in Python

 Suggested pace is 5 hours per week  / approx. 8 months. 

Price: $450*             

* Special Pricing: $300
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)

EFL, English Language, TESOL, ESL, English Language Teaching, Teaching, Lesson Plan, Speech

 Suggested pace is 4 hours per week  / approx. 12 months. 

Price: $450*             

* Special Pricing: $300
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)

• Non-technical and technical sales, support, legal, finance, marketing, and managerial personnel get a high-level understanding to better interact with advanced technical professionals such as developers, business analysts, and other IT professionals engaged in AWS projects.
• Start your technical career path: Take your first steps toward a technical career, and in acquiring future technical AWS associate-level certifications.

Upon completion, you will be prepared to sit for the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification exam and provided with a voucher code that covers the cost of the exam. You will also be able to discuss features and principals specific to the AWS cloud:

• Basic global infrastructure and architecture
• Deployment and operation
• Value proposition
• Platform services and use cases
• Compliance and security
• Billing, account management, and pricing
• Documentation and technical materials

Before taking this course, you should have:

• General IT business and technical knowledge.
• Basic understanding of IT services, such as CPUs, RAM, disk, databases, networking, servers, etc.

Price: $600*         

* Special Pricing: $480
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)

Mastering cloud architecture design requires a strong foundation in IT concepts. In preparation for the AWS Certification exam, students learn the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on AWS through a guided, instructor-led approach. Learn how to optimize the use of the AWS cloud by understanding how AWS services fit into cloud-based business solutions. You'll get:

• Hands-on experience with practice-server access to the AWS platform: Online labs, activities, and projects.
• eLearning portal access with interactive content: Labs, video, and practice exams.
• Online knowledge assessments.
• Challenging scenario-based exercises that reinforce curriculum topics.

Upon completion, you will be prepared to sit for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification exam and provided with a voucher code that covers the cost of the exam. You will be able to perform tasks not limited to these:

• Architect and deploy secure and robust AWS applications.
• Define solutions using architectural design principles based on customer requirements.
• Provide best-practice implementation guidelines.
• Identify the value and benefits of cloud and AWS.
• Understand data protection and methodology.
• Explain the financial advantages of the AWS cloud.
• Navigate the AWS Management Console.
• Understand AWS compute, networking, storage, and database options.
• Create cloud migration roadmaps and business continuity plans.
• Use AWS to make infrastructures scalable.
• Automate the deployment of cloud resources.
• Design architectures to decouple infrastructure and reduce interdependencies.
• Optimize data storage for static content.
• Identify and solve common configuration and design issues.
• Differentiate between architectures for data processing and analytics, mobile backends, and video transcoding.
  

Before taking this course, you should have:

• An understanding of IT technical and business knowledge, and general concepts for networks, cloud computing, and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with computer hardware, operating systems and basic scripting and programming knowledge. 

While not required, students most successful in this course have: 

• A basic understanding of global infrastructure and architecture.
• Familiarity with common AWS services and how and when they are used.

Price: $2,000*         

* Special Pricing: $1600
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)