LiveLabs for Developers is a hosted training solution that allows your organization to grow programming expertise through hands-on exercises that build production-scale solutions. LiveLabs provide experience outside of the confines of the developer's day to day experience and provides practical application to learning, complementing other training resources.
Why LiveLabs for Developers make sense for your business:
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Raise revenue with highly-valued labs
- Expand market share by bundling existing product with new lab capabilities
- Improve client retention by providing more comprehensive, bundled solutions
- Satisfy client demand for more comprehensive training and blended solutions
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Reduce costs associated with training delivery
- Eliminate the costs of developing and maintaining your own hands-on training approach
- Standards compliant for easy integration with in-house (LMS) systems
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Reach new markets
- Classroom based vendors can extend their engagement with students by including a self-study lab component
- Enhance your image and brand by being one of the few vendors able to offer technically challenging and engaging labs
- Direct support for large client proposals, including assistance with presentations and demonstrations
Features of LiveLabs for Developers
LiveLabs are designed for use by enterprises, learning organizations and individual developers alike. They are used for hands-on learning, practice and review, for reinforcing best-practices for code-development, and for preparing for certification exams.
Rapid Unscheduled Access to Real Development Environments
With live environments, students have unlimited degrees of freedom to learn from their mistakes; instead of memorizing steps, students build and retain skills through practical, real-world, case-based exercises. Unlike simulations which track users down a narrow path and which never present a true representation of how technology actually functions, labs allows students many paths to success and provide real-world experience.
Intuitive Exercises in a Learner-Friendly Interface
Lab sessions are designed with users in mind. The user interface provides a single window to access: the lab guide, the development environment, and lab management controls. Easy navigation between these areas translates into fewer obstacles to learning and higher learner engagement.
Practical Lab Guides for All Experience Levels
Unlike most lab guides which take a cookbook approach to instruction, LiveLabs' lab guides are unique in providing multiple levels of assistance, matching the lab challenge to the experience level of the user. Advanced users will enjoy the challenge of scenario-based lab guides complete with in-depth scenarios, "help-sheet" command lists and collapsible tutorial instructions. Novice users benefit from step-by-step details that build experience in a fast and productive manner and convey "best practices" for achieving the lab objectives.
Lab guides include:
- Lab Description and Goals
- Prerequisites
- Lab Assignment (Scenario, Notes and Conditions)
- Command List (Outline of specific commands required to complete the objectives)
- Recommended Approach (Step-by-step tutorial)
- Additional Resources (Links to outside reference material for concepts covered in the lab)
- Timing (General estimate for time required to complete objectives)
- Curriculum (Course content related to the lab objectives)
Obtain Industry-Recognized Certifications
LiveLab exercises are built around official course objectives for Microsoft .NET certifications. As certifications move towards assessing mastery of skills rather than mastery of concepts, LiveLabs fill the void by putting required concepts to use in practical applications. Best of all, LiveLabs for Developers build on one another so that the learning from one lab scenario is immediately put to use in each subsequent lab exercise, reinforcing new skills and providing practical insights on how the skills are applied to real-world challenges.
LiveLabs for Microsoft .NET
Access a suite of over 85 different hands-on lab exercises using live, pre-configured development environments supporting:
- Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) for Visual Basic
- Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) for Visual Basic
- Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) for C#
- Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) for C#
The MCAD credential is for developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET framework to develop, deploy, and maintain department-level applications and components for Microsoft Windows and the Web. These developers also build enterprise solutions incorporating data services and XML Web services.
The MCSD credential is the premier certification for advanced developers who design and develop leading-edge enterprise solutions with Microsoft development tools and technologies, as well as the Microsoft .NET framework.
These LiveLabs allow access to a full server environment pre-configured with the .NET development environment, base code snippets, and solution code.
LiveLabs for .NET are available on a subscription basis to enable programmers to build competency in developing applications and solutions in the Microsoft Visual Studio environment within the .NET framework.
