Bespoke Training

Cresta Testing

The majority of companies offering training have career trainers who know about their course but often struggle when having to move "off subject".

Our client was a testing house. Their staff would not be writing software, but needed to have an understanding of a wide range of technologies.

This training course was one of the toughest we have given. Our brief was to cover web and other technologies.

We build delegate machines with almost every technology we could think of. The delegates arrived with lists of ideas and questions.
In some subject areas the delegates simply needed an explanation. Good examples are "what is a network", "what is TCP/IP".
In other areas they wanted to try out the technology.

During the course we covered

• HTML - built pages
• JavaScript / VBScript - built page validation
• FTP - uploaded pages
• Web server - configured it
• ASP - wrote dynamic pages
• Database selection - Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL
• Database - built a database and interfaced it to ASP
• PHP - wrote more dynamic pages
• PERL - wrote even more dynamic pages
• Visual Basic - wrote a simple application
• C / C++ - wrote a simple application
• Java - wrote a simple application
• ISPs - discussion on what they are and how to select one
• Security - General - Password, access control
• Security - Web - Hacking
• Software Configuration Management

Aptek's strength is being able to answer real questions. We do this for a living and as such we can draw on our experience to advise on a large range of subjects and scenarios.