Blue Coat Certified
VistaOne provides instructor-led training programs that can make a network administrator fully proficient on all aspects of ProxySG and ProxyAV product technologies. All courses include real-life scenarios and feature extensive hands-on lab experiences that engage participants in installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of Blue Coat products.

PacketShaper Specialist Level I
The originators of this product, Packeteer designed this curriculum for the VAR, Network Administrator or Infrastructure Designer that wants to monitor, control and accelerate network traffic using the PacketShaper appliance. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Fully understand PacketShaper's benefits, features and capabilities
• Plan a PacketShaper deployment
• Implement a PacketShaper deployment
• Install and configure the PacketShaper
• Configure and Operate the Adaptive Response feature
• Classify network traffic
• Gain visibility into network and application behavior
• Control network traffic
• Compress network traffic
• Maintain the PacketShaper
• Troubleshoot network traffic problems
• Strategically manage network application performance

Length: two days

PacketShaper Advanced Traffic Analysis & Troubleshooting
Packeteer designed this curriculum for the VAR, Network Administrator or Infrastructure Designer that has chosen to monitor, control and accelerate network traffic using the PacketShaper appliance. It’s an advanced technical training course that focuses on advanced traffic analysis, and diagnosing/ troubleshooting problems related to:

• Application traffic visibility, control, and acceleration
• Network performance gaps
• Network integrity
• Traffic flowPacketShaper hardware
• PacketShaper software and configuration
• PacketShaper capacities, limits, and performance

The course also covers advanced command line operation of Packeteer devices; advanced visibility, control and acceleration options; troubleshooting strategies, and the use of diagnostic tools.

Prerequisite: Completion of Packeteer Specialist course
Length: two days

Blue Coat Certified Proxy Administrator (BCCPA)
This is a proxy fundamentals course for IT professionals that want to master the fundamentals of Blue Coat products and have not taken any previous Blue Coat training courses. Students should be familiar with networking essentials like LAN, Internet, security, and IP protocols. Basic knowledge of authentication methods is also a plus. If you previously attended the old Proxy Fundamentals Course, you can skip this. Instead take the BCCPA Upgrade class that covers new material. The BCCPA Course covers:

• Blue Coat SG and firewalls
• Blue Coat SG deployment
• Blue Coat SG initial setup
• Blue Coat SG graphical user interface (GUI) Services
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and HTTP compression
• Authentication introduction and realms
• Policy management
• Content filtering
• Managing downloads
• Managing instant messaging
• Managing peer-to-peer traffic
• Notify user policy
• Access logging
• Introduction to Reporter
• Blue Coat AV
• Support

Upon completing this course and passing an online exam, students will become Blue Coat Certified Proxy Administrators.

Length: two days
Class Size: 8 students (maximum)

Blue Coat Certified Proxy Professional (BCCPP)
Formerly known as Advanced Proxy Solutions, this revised course is for students who have taken the Blue Coat Certified Proxy Administrator (BCCPA) course or passed the entrance exam. It’s intended for students that want to master the advanced features of Blue Coat products and their most recent operating systems. The BCCPP course covers:

• System architecture
• Content Policy Language (CPL)
• Regular expression
• 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 and using Kerberos Authentication
• Substitution Realm
• Windows SSO
• Blue Coat SG security
• Failover
• Blue Coat Director
• Spyware prevention

Upon completing the course and passing an online exam, students will become Blue Coat Certified Proxy Professionals.

Prerequisites: BCCPA Course or passing score on the entrance exam
Length: three days
Class Size: 8 students (maximum)

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Blue Coat Reporter
This course is designed to provide students with a better understanding of Blue Coat Reporter. This course will teach students how to install, configure and operate Reporter. Students should have an advanced knowledge of networking and be familiar with Access Logging. The course will begin by introducing students to Reporter and what it can do to help their organizations. They’ll learn:

• Installing and configuring Reporter
• How Reporter uses Access Logs from the ProxySG
• How and what reports are generated
• Reporter system architecture and its components
• Deploying Reporter in local and global reporting environments
• Prerequisites: Completion of the BCCPA course and passed exam

Length: one day
Class Size: 8 students (maximum)

Blue Coat Director
This course provides students with a better understanding of Blue Coat Director. It will teach students how to install, configure, and operate the application. The course begins with an introduction of Director and its usefulness to an organization. Students will learn:

• Installing and configuring Director
• How Director works with other Blue Coat products likeProxySG
• Maintaining Director
• Director’s system architecture
• Administering Director
• Managing ProxySGs through Director
• Managing content with Director and the Content Sync Module
• Prerequisites: Completion of the BCCPP course and passed exam

Length: Half-day 
Class Size: 8 students (maximum)

Blue Coat WAN Acceleration Administrator (BCWAA)
The Blue Coat WAN Acceleration Administrator (BCWAA) Course is intended for students who want to use new ProxySG features that enable application acceleration. The course discusses:

• Blue Coat product family
• Their WAN optimization features
• ProxySG deployment
• Licensing and upgrading the ProxySG
• Services framework
• Application Delivery Network
• MAPI, CIFS and SSL proxies
• Active sessions
• Blue Coat SG Client
• Bandwidth management

It also provides hands-on lab exercises that teach students how to configure and use these features. This one-day course is designed on the newly released version of SGOS 5.2.x.

Prerequisites: Students need practical experience with the ProxySG in the field. Additionally, students should have advanced knowledge of networking, security and authentication.

Length: one day
Class Size: 8 students (maximum)

Blue Coat WAN Acceleration Professional (BCWAP)
The Blue Coat WAN Acceleration Professional (BCWAP) course was created for professional that want to use new ProxySG features that enable advanced features of application acceleration. Students need practical experience with the ProxySG in the field. Additionally, students should have advanced knowledge of networking, security and authentication. The BCWAP Course discusses:

• DADN connection types
• SSL proxy
• Secure ADN
• Asymmetric routing
• ADN load balancing
• Failover
• Advanced services
• ADN–advanced topics
• Troubleshooting ADN
• CIFS-advanced topics
• Troubleshooting CIFS proxy
• MAPI–advanced topics
• VLAN Support, WCCP
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Health checks
• Managing Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
• WAN optimization deployment case studies

It also provides hands-on lab exercises that teach students how to configure and use these features. This one-day course is designed on the newly released version of SGOS 5.2.x .

Prerequisites: Blue Coat WAN Acceleration Professional (BCWAP) Course Device Authentication

Length: two days
Class Size: 8 students (maximum)