Blue Coat courses are hands-on and consist of Lectures, Labs and Discussions.
Secure Web Gateway Track
Blue Coat Certified Proxy Administrator (BCCPA) Course
Duration: 2 days.
Audience: Those who wish to master the fundamentals of Blue Coat products and have not taken any previous Blue Coat training.
Pre-requisites: Students should be familiar with networking essentials, such as LAN, Internet, Security and IP Protocols. Basic knowledge of authentication methods is
also a plus.
Topics Covered: Blue Coat SG & Firewalls
Blue Coat SG Deployment, Initial Setup and Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Services
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
HTTP Compression
Authentication Introduction
Authentication Realms
Policy Management
Content Filtering
Managing Downloads, Instant Messaging & Peer-to-Peer Traffic
Notify User Policy
Access Logging
Introduction to Reporter
Blue Coat AV
Support
Blue Coat Certified Proxy Professional (BCCPP) Course
Duration: 3 days.
Audience: Students who have taken the BCCPA course or passed the BCCPA Exam or Waiver Exam.
Pre-requisites: Students need practical experience with the Proxy SG in the field. Additionally, students
should have advanced knowledge of networking, security and authentication.
Topics Covered: System Architecture
Content Policy Language (CPL)
Regular Expressions
Apparent Data Type
HTTP Details
Policy Tracing
Forwarding
CP Tunneling
Reverse Proxy
Two-Way URL Rewrite
Advanced Reporter
Access Logging
Using Authentication in Transparent Proxy Mode
Understanding & Using Kerberos Authentication
Substitution Realm
Windows SSO
Blue Coat SG Security
Failover
Blue Coat Director
Spyware Prevention
Blue Coat Reporter Course
Duration: 1 day.
Audience: Students who wish to master the fundamentals of Blue Coat Reporter
Pre-requisites: Students should have taken the BCCPA course and passed the exam. Additionally, students should have an advanced knowledge of networking and
be familiar with Access Logging.
Topics Covered: The course will begin by introducing students to Reporter and what it can do to help their company. Students will then learn how to install and
configure Reporter, how reporter uses Access Logs from the ProxySG, and how and what reports are generated. The course will also cover Reporter
system architecture to give students a better understanding of Reporter’s components. The course will end with a discussion about deploying Reporter
in local and global reporting environments, giving students an idea about how Reporter can be used in a wide range of situations
Blue Coat Director Course
Duration: Half day.
Audience: Students who wish to master the fundamentals of Blue Coat Director
Pre-requisites: Students should have taken the BCCPA course and passed the exam.
Topics Covered: The course begins by introducing students to Director and what it can do to help their company. Students will then learn how to install and configure
Director, how Director works with other Blue Coat products, such as the ProxySG, and how to maintain Director. To reach this end, the Director
course contains information about Director’s system architecture, administering Director, managing ProxySGs through Director, and managing content
with Director and the Content Sync Module.
Visibility and Conrol Track
Blue Coat Certified PacketShaper Administrator
Duration: 2 days
Audience: This course is intended for IT professionals requiring basic operational network management knowledge and skills; i.e., network/system administrators who are responsible for managing network application performance using the Blue Coat PacketShaper.
Pre-requisites: Students should be familiar with networking essentials, such as LAN, Internet, security, and IP protocols.
Description: The Blue Coat Certified PacketShaper Administrator (BCPSA) Course provides an effective mix of operational theory and hands on performance-based exercises. It covers:
Blue Coat Family of Products
Blue Coat PacketShaper Overview
PacketShaper Deployment
PacketShaper Licensing
Initial PacketShaper Configuration
PacketShaper GUI and CLI
Understanding Applications on the Network
Analyzing Applications on the Network
Controlling Applications on the Network
Bandwidth Management
Policies
Maintaining PacketShaper
Blue Coat Certified PacketShaper Professional
Duration: 3 days
Audience: The course is oriented towards the learning needs of working IT network professionals responsible for troubleshooting network application performance using Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances.
Pre-requisites: Blue Coat Certified PacketShaper Administrator (BCPSA) certification, or waiver exam. Student should have practical experience with the PacketShaper appliance in the field with a solid understanding of networking and general knowledge of application behavior on Wide Area Networks.
Description: The Blue Coat Certified PacketShaper Professional (BCPSP) Course is intended for students who want to use new PacketShaper features that deliver integrated visibility, control and compression capabilities in a single appliance. The BCPSP Course covers:
Blue Coat PacketShaper Architecture
Advanced Classification
Advanced Bandwidth Management
Understanding Adaptive Response
PacketShaper Authentication
Compression and Acceleration
Introduction to IntelligenceCenter
Introduction to Policy Center
WAN Optimization Track
Blue Coat WAN Acceleration Administrator (BCWAA) Course
Duration: 1 days.
Audience: User or prospective users of WAN Optimization technology
Pre-requisites: Students need practical experience with the ProxySG in the field. Additionally, students should have advanced knowledge of networking, security
and authentication.
Topics Covered: Blue Coat Product Family, WAN Optimization Features
ProxySG Deployment, Licensing and Upgrading the ProxySG
Services Framework
Application Delivery Network
MAPO, CIFS and SSL Proxies
Active Sessions
Blue Coat SG Client
Bandwidth Management
Blue Coat WAN Acceleration Professional (BCWAP) Course
Duration: 2 days.
Audience: Advance user or prospective users of WAN Acceleration technology.
Pre-requisites: Blue Coat WAN Acceleration Administrator (BCWAA) Course. Students need practical experience with the ProxySG in the field. Additionally,
students should have advanced knowledge of networking, security and authentication.
Topics Covered: Device Authentication
ASN Connection Types, SSL Proxy, Secure ADN
Asymmetric Routing, ADN Load Balancing
Failover, Advanced Services, ADN-Advanced Topics, Troubleshooting ADN
CIFS-Advanced Topics, Troubleshooting CIFS Prozy, MAPI-Advanced Topics
VLAN Support, WCCP, Quality of Service (QoS)
Health Checksm Managing Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
WAN Optimization Deployment Case Studies