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© 2014 IBM Corporation WAS V8.5 eGA 6/15/12 WAS V8.5.5 eGA 6/14/13 V Q2’14 Announce April 2014 eGA 6/13/14 Test , IBM WebSphere Application Server ND and Liberty Profile V8.5.5, Administration GA 1/1/14  W / ZA855 – WAS ND and LP Administration V8.5.5 (5 days) 6/28/13  W / ZA591 – WAS V8.5.5 Problem Determination (5 days)  VW976 – Java Batch Processing with WAS (1 day web-based)  W / ZA585 – WAS ND and LP Administration V8.5 (5 days)  W / ZA815 – WAS V8.5.5 Performance Tuning (3 days) Feb 2014 Also referenced courses in WAS V8.0 curriculum and Redbooks Course updates for WAS V in Plan:  W / VY583 – WAS Liberty Profile for Administrators (1 day, with BYOD labs or on BlueMix when available)  VWtbd – WAS Liberty Collectives  VYtbd - WAS Liberty for application developers (1/2 day with BYOD labs or on BlueMix)  VW500 – WAS and Cloud Deployment  ZU909 – WAS Liberty Problem Determination (1 day, SPVC) Q3’14 – Q4’14  WU805 – Transition to WAS V8.5 (3 days)  W / ZA680 – WebSphere Scripting and Automation (5 days)  WA880 – WAS V8.5: Using Intelligent Management (3 days) Reference courses in WAS V8.5 curriculum as well as Knowledge Center and Redbooks Reference courses in WAS V8.5.x curriculum and certification tests as well as Knowledge Center and Redbooks Test C IBM WebSphere Application Server Developer Tools V8.5 with Liberty Profile 1Q2013

© 2014 IBM Corporation WebSphere Education Programs WebSphere Application Server Administration Training path: Available Offerings Courses in Development Future Planned Offerings WAS V8.5.5 Curriculum  WA / ZA855 – WAS V8.5.5 Administration  WA / ZA591 – WAS V8.5.5 Problem Determination (5 days)  WA / ZA815 - WAS V8.5.5 Performance Tuning (3.5 days)  VW976 – Java Batch Processing with WAS (1 day web-based)  Test 401 – WAS V Certification test  Test IBM WebSphere Application Server Developer Tools V8.5 with Liberty Profile WAS V8.5 Curriculum  W/ZA680 - WAS V8 Scripting and automation (5 days)  WA880 - WAS V8.5 Intelligent Management (3 days)  W/ZA585 - WAS V8 Admin (5 days)  ZU802 – WAS V8.5 Liberty Profile (1 day)  WU805 - Transition to WAS V8.5 for Administrators (3 days) WAS V8 Curriculum  Most courses are still active WAS V7 Curriculum  Most courses are still active 2-3 Q2014  W / VY583 - WAS Liberty for administrators (1 day with BYOD labs)  VYtbd - WAS Liberty for application developers (1/2 day with BYOD labs or on BlueMix)  3Q2014  VWtbd – WAS Liberty Collectives  VW500 – WebSphere Application Server Cloud Deployment 4Q2014  ZU909 – WAS Liberty Problem Determination (1 day) Note : WAS V8.5.x tests will remain active  Test 401 – WAS V Certification test (available)  Test IBM WebSphere Application Server Developer Tools V8.5 with Liberty Profile (available) Curriculum Status WebSphere Education Contacts Development Manager Jeannie Lacy Curriculum Architect Hamid Karbasi Product eGA Information WAS V806/17/2011 WAS V8.5June/15/2012 WAS V8.5.5June/14/2013 WAS V June/13/2014

© 2014 IBM Corporation WXS V8.5 eGA 4/7/12 WXS V8.6 eGA 11/30/12 WXS Vnext Announce tbd eGA tbd Published blog posts:  Using the XC10 appliance for elastic dynamic caching  Using the XC10 appliance for HTTP session management  Using the XC10 appliance as a "side-cache"  W / ZA974 – Developing Applications for WXS V7.1 (3 days) Also referenced resources at IBM Education Assistant and Redbooks Course updates for WXS Vnext in Plan:  WA/ZA890 – Developing Applications with WXS Vnext (3 days - in queue)  W / ZA974 – Developing Applications for WXS – Added a Web addendum on what is new in V8.5 (3 days) Updated the references to Knowledge Center IBM Education Assistant and Redbooks Contact IBM Software Services for WebSphere for mentoring workshops

© 2014 IBM Corporation WebSphere Education Programs WebSphere eXtreme Scale and XC10 Training path: Available Offerings Courses in Development Future Planned Offerings  Blog series on XC10 – 1. Using the XC10 as a side cache 2. Using the XC10 for HTTP session management 3. Using the XC10 for elastic dynamic 4. Reading list  WA974+ Added what is new in WXS V8.5 on developerworks  WA974 / ZA974 - Developing Applications for WebSphere eXtreme Scale V7.1(3 days)  Note: Other online resources are available on the training path 2Q2014  None  WA/ZA890 – Developing Applications with WXS Vnext (3 days - in queue) Curriculum Status WebSphere Education Contacts Development Manager Jeannie Lacy Curriculum Architect Hamid Karbasi Product eGA/GA Information WXS V /18/2011 WXS V8.504/07/2012 WXS V8.611/30/2012 WXS VnextTBD

© 2014 IBM Corporation Test 319, IBM WebSphere Application Server Developer Tools V8.5 with Liberty Profile Also referenced Redbooks Course updates for WAS V in Plan:  ZA583 – WAS Liberty for Admins (1 day)  VYtbd – WAS Liberty for Developers (1/2 day)  W / ZD373 – Developing Web Applications with WDT and Liberty (2 days) (in queue)  W / ZD353 – Developing EJB Applications for WAS (3 days) (in queue) Q2’14 – Q4’14  WD352 - Developing EJB 3 Applications for WAS V7  WD371 - Java EE 5 Development for WebSphere Application Server V7  WD322 – Web 2.0 Application Development (5 days) Rational Education Courses:  RD810 – Mastering Servlet and JSP with RAD V7.5  RD815 – Mastering Web Application Development with RAD V7.5  RD250 – Java SCA Development with Rational Application Developer V8.0 Contact IBM Rational Education for additional Java EE application development courses  W / ZD104 – Fundamentals of Enterprise OSGi with IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 (1 day) WAS V8.5 eGA 6/15/12 WAS V8.5.5 eGA 6/14/13 WAS V Q2’14 Announce April 2014 eGA 6/13/14

© 2014 IBM Corporation WebSphere Education Programs JEE Application Development Training paths: and Available Offerings Courses in Development Future Planned Offerings WebSphere Education  W/ZD104 – Fundamentals of Enterprise OSGi with IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 (1 day)  Test 319 – Certification test for developer with WDT and WAS LP  WD352 - Developing EJB 3 Applications for WAS V7  WD371 - Java EE 5 Development for WebSphere Application Server V7  Various WAS V6.1 / RAD V7 courses  Various WAS V6.0 / RAD V6.0 courses Rational Education  RD810 – Mastering Servlet, JSP Development with RAD  RD815 – Mastering Web Application Development with RAD  RV030 – Developing Web Applications with JSF using RAD V7  RV085 - Developing Web Applications with JSF using RAD V8  RD/YD250 – Java SCA Development with RAD 2Q2013  W / VY583 – WAS Liberty for Admins (1 day, SPVC or BYOD) 3Q2014  VYtbd - WAS Liberty for application developers (1/2 day with BYOD labs or on BlueMix)  W / ZD373 – Developing Web Applications with WDT and Liberty Profile (2 day) (in queue) 4Q2014  W / ZD353 – Developing EJB Applications for WAS V8.5.5 (3 days) (in queue) Curriculum Status WebSphere Education Contacts Development Manager Jeannie Lacy Curriculum Architect Hamid Karbasi Product eGA Information WAS V806/17/2011 WAS V8.5June/15/2012 WAS V8.5.5June/14/2013 WAS V June/13/2014

© 2014 IBM Corporation WAS V8.5 eGA 6/15/12 WAS V8.5.5 eGA 6/14/13 WAS V Q2’14 Announce April 2014 eGA 6/13/14 Test 371, Web Services Development for WebSphere Application Server V7.0  ZD326 – REST Web Services for Mobile Applications (1/2 day) Also referenced Redbooks Course updates for WAS Vnext in Plan:  ZA583 – Using WAS Liberty Profile  WD / ZD330 – Rest Services for Mobile Application Development (2 days – in queue) Q2-Q3’14  WD507 – Rest Service Development with Java  W / ZD506 - Web Service Development for IBM WebSphere Application Server V7  ZD511, ZD512, ZD513 (SPVC modules of ZD506)

© 2014 IBM Corporation WebSphere Education Programs Web Services Development Training path: Available Offerings Courses in Development Future Planned Offerings WebSphere Education  ZD326 – REST Web Services for Mobile Applications (1/2 day )  W /ZD506 - Web Service Development for IBM WebSphere Application Server V7  ZD511, ZD512, ZD513 (SPVC modules of ZD506)  WD507 – Rest Service Development with Java 2Q2013  none 3Q2014  ZDtbd – WAS Liberty for developers 4Q2014  WD / ZD330 – Rest Services for Mobile Application Development (2 days – in queue) Curriculum Status WebSphere Education Contacts Development Manager Agata Muszycka- Jones Curriculum Architect Hamid Karbasi Product eGA Information WAS V806/17/2011 WAS V8.5June/15/2012 WAS V8.5.5June/14/2013 WAS V June/13/2014

© 2014 IBM Corporation Training paths  Training paths include additional resources, such as: –Redbooks, Redpieces and other ITSO publications –Product InfoCenter –Getting started material –Assets on developerWorks –YouTube videos produced by IBM –Certification tests –Links to courses in other IBM brands and training paths  Training paths are role-based  There is web version for online viewing and navigation to course descriptions  There is PDF version for download which also has online navigation capability

© 2014 IBM Corporation Sample training path (1 of 3)  The training paths for WebSphere Application Server at: –  PDF version is also available online

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