Professional Certifications | Catawba College

Professional Certifications | Catawba College
Professional Certifications
You can further your career with online, professional certifications designed to meet your specific career goals and interests.
Whether you’re looking for a promotion, a career change, personal enrichment, or supporting your degree, we’ve got a certification for you.
Our professional certification programs allow you to learn at your own pace whenever and wherever is convenient for you. You can earn a certificate in as little as 3-6 hours per week over 4 to 8 months.
Upon completion of your program, you will earn a certificate and badge to showcase your new credential with your network.
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We are proud to offer discounted pricing for the following groups:
Catawba College Alumni
Groups of 5 or more
Veterans and Active Military
Catawba College Students, Faculty, & Staff
Certification Programs
Choose the Pathway that Fits Your Goals
Learn to manipulate and transform data, combining SAS data sets, creating basic detail and summary reports using SAS procedures and identifying and correcting data, syntax and programming logic errors. These skills prepare you for the SAS® Base Programming Specialist certification exam.  Learn to:
Understand/use SAS programming language fundamentals
Access, explore, and prepare different types of data (SAS, Excel, text)
Analyze, report, and export data to common formats (HTML, PDF, Excel)
Apply SAS programming principles in practical examples
Skills You'll Learn:
Trigonometric Integral, Significant Figures, Dividends, General Statistics, Type I And Type II Errors, Measurement, Home Directory
Suggested pace is 4 hours per week  / approx. 5 months.
Price:
$450
* Special Pricing: $300
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)
Using SAS Visual Analytics, you will learn to access and manipulate data, analyze data with a variety of interactive reports and graphics, and design and share dashboards to visualize your data. SAS Visual Analytics is a useful skill in a variety of careers, including business analyst, researcher, statistician, or data scientist. Learn to:
How to explore data using SAS Visual Analytics
How to create interactive reports using SAS Visual Analytics
How to prepare data using SAS Data Studio
To describe the data structure needed for network analysis, path analysis, and text analytics.
Skills You'll Learn:
Business Analytics,
SAS VA,
SAS Visual Analytics
Suggested pace is 4 hours per week  / approx. 3 months.
Price: $450*
* Special Pricing: $300
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)
Gain the
job-ready skills
for an entry-level data analyst role and position yourself competitively in the thriving job market with
hands-on skills
practice. Work with a variety of data sources, project scenarios, and data analysis tools, gaining practical experience with data manipulation and applying analytical techniques. No prior programming or statistical skills are needed, and this program is a great foundation for other data disciplines (i.e. data science, data engineering). Learn to:
Gain proficiency using spreadsheets and Excel for data analysis
Create various charts and plots to build dashboards and visualize data
Develop working knowledge of Python language to analyze data
Describe data ecosystems and compose queries to access data in cloud databases
Skills You'll Learn:
Microsoft Excel,
Python Programming,
Data Analysis,
Data Visualization (DataViz),
SQL,
Data Science,
Spreadsheet,
Pivot Table,
IBM Cognos Analytics,
Dashboard,
Pandas,
Numpy
Suggested pace: 3 hours per week  / approx. 11 months
Price:
$450
* Special Pricing: $300
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)
Cybersecurity is one of the most in-demand career fields. Gain the technical skills to become
job-ready
for a Cybersecurity Analyst role. Instructional content and labs will introduce you to concepts including network security, endpoint protection, incident response, threat intelligence, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessment. Learn to:
Develop knowledge of cybersecurity analyst tools
Learn about key compliance and threat intelligence
Gain skills for incident responses and forensics
Get hands-on experience to develop skills
Skills You'll Learn:
Information Security Analyst,
IT Security Analyst, S
ecurity Analyst,
Junior Cybersecurity Analyst,
Information Security (INFOSEC),
IBM New Collar,
Malware,
Cybersecurity,
Cyber Attacks, D
atabase Vulnerabilities,
Network Security, SQL
Injection
Suggested pace is 4 hours per week  / approx. 8 months.
Price:
$450
* Special Pricing: $300
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)
This program includes an industry-relevant curriculum designed to prepare you for an entry-level role in social media marketing. You’ll learn to establish an online presence, create posts, build a following, and manage your social media accounts. You’ll develop skills in creating and managing advertising campaigns in social media and learn to evaluate the results of your marketing efforts. Learn to:
Create and analyze an effective advertising campaign
Create a creative brief
Create, edit, and troubleshoot Facebook Ads
Establish and manage a social media presence
Skills You'll Learn:
Performance Advertising,
Digital Marketing
Brand Management
Social Media Marketing
Content Marketing
Marketing
Social Media Marketing Strategy
Content Development
, C
ontent Management
Marketing Content Development
Campaign Management
Ad Management
Suggested pace is 2 hours per week  / approx. 7 months.
Price:
$450
* Special Pricing: $300
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)
Gain the skills you need to advance your career as a security engineer and get training to support your preparation for the industry-recognized Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification. You'll also have the opportunity to configure access, configure network security, and ensure data protection among other things.  Learn to:
Learn the skills needed to be successful in a cloud security engineer role
Prepare for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification exam
Learn about Cloud Security
Configure Google VPC networks, subnets, and routers; control VPC access
Skills You'll Learn:
Google Compute Engine,
Google App Engine (GAE),
Google Cloud Platform,
Cloud Computing,
Create and Understand Custom IAM Roles,
Secure a Kubernetes Environment,
Create and Configure Network Peering
Suggested pace is 4 hours per week  / approx. 5 months.
Price: $450
* Special Pricing: $300
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)
Gain in-demand skills that can help you advance your career. Knowing how to write code to solve problems and automate solutions is a crucial skill for anybody in IT. Python, in particular, is now the most in-demand programming language by employers. Take your career to the next level by building on your IT foundations. You'll learn how to program with Python and automate common system administration tasks. You'll also learn to use Git and GitHub, troubleshoot and debug complex problems, and apply automation at scale by using configuration management and the Cloud. Learn to:
Automate tasks by writing Python scripts
Use Git and GitHub for version control
Manage IT resources at scale for physical/virtual cloud machines
Analyze real-world IT problems and implement resolution strategies
Skills You'll Learn:
Using Version Control,
Troubleshooting & Debugging
Python Programming
Configuration Management
Automation
Basic Python Data Structures
Fundamental Programming Concepts
Basic Python Syntax
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Setting up your Development Environment
Regular Expression (REGEX)
Testing in Python
Suggested pace is 5 hours per week  / approx. 8 months.
Price: $450*
* Special Pricing: $300
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)
Sales Development Representatives (SDRs) are in the front lines of the tech biz, connecting with customers and clients, and coming up with the smartest solutions for their problems. Do you enjoy engaging with customers? Do you need to be immersed in a value-driving, stimulating industry that’s constantly giving you new, exciting challenges? Would you like to thrive in a high-energy environment that’s collaborative and data-driven? Learn to:
Articulate the purpose of the SDR role and develop strategies for success
Prepare a professional portfolio and develop your personal brand
Apply the success-proven principles of the SV Academy Conversational Selling methodology
Problem-solve using the best-in-class tech tools of the SDR workflow
Skills You'll Learn:
Sales Development, I
nterviewing
Sales
Time Management
Cold Calling
, T
eamwork
Personal Advertisement
Audience
Personal Branding
Resume Writing
, C
old Emailing
, O
bjection Handling
Suggested pace is 5 hours per week  / approx. 6 months.
Price:
$450
* Special Pricing: $300
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)
This program is designed for anyone who wants to teach English anywhere n the world. Whether you want to become a teacher, just polish your teaching skills, or add a credential to your resume, this is the course for you! Learn to:
Master modern communicative techniques for engaging students
Recognize, identify, and use language acquisition theories and principles
Deliver lesson plans using interactive and engaging methods
Understand ways to motivate and properly engage students
Skills You'll Learn:
EFL,
English Language
TESOL
ESL
English Language Teaching
Teaching,
Lesson Plan
Speech
Suggested pace is 4 hours per week  / approx. 12 months.
Price: $450
* Special Pricing: $300
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)
In preparation for the AWS certification exam, this 4-week, instructor-led asynchronous course will teach students about the foundation of the AWS infrastructure and basic cloud concepts through a guided, instructor-led approach. Expand your knowledge:
Non-technical and technical sales, support, legal, finance, marketing, and managerial personnel get a high-level understanding to better interact with advanced technical professionals such as developers, business analysts, and other IT professionals engaged in AWS projects.
Start your technical career path: Take your first steps toward a technical career, and in acquiring future technical AWS associate-level certifications.
Upon completion, you will be prepared to sit for the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification exam and provided with a voucher code that covers the cost of the exam
. You will also be able to discuss features and principals specific to the AWS cloud:
Basic global infrastructure and architecture
Deployment and operation
Value proposition
Platform services and use cases
Compliance and security
Billing, account management, and pricing
Documentation and technical materials
Before taking this course, you should have:
General IT business and technical knowledge.
Basic understanding of IT services, such as CPUs, RAM, disk, databases, networking, servers, etc.
4-Week, Instructor-Led Course
Price:
$600
* Special Pricing: $480
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)
This 10-week, instructor-led asynchronous course is geared toward professionals who have one or more years of hands-on experience designing distributed systems on AWS.
Mastering cloud architecture design requires a strong foundation in IT concepts. In preparation for the AWS Certification exam, students learn the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on AWS through a guided, instructor-led approach. Learn how to optimize the use of the AWS cloud by understanding how AWS services fit into cloud-based business solutions.
You'll get:
Hands-on experience with practice-server access to the AWS platform: Online labs, activities, and projects.
eLearning portal access with interactive content: Labs, video, and practice exams.
Online knowledge assessments.
Challenging scenario-based exercises that reinforce curriculum topics.
Upon completion, you will be prepared to sit for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification exam and provided with a voucher code that covers the cost of the exam.
You will be able to perform tasks not limited to these:
Architect and deploy secure and robust AWS applications.
Define solutions using architectural design principles based on customer requirements.
Provide best-practice implementation guidelines.
Identify the value and benefits of cloud and AWS.
Understand data protection and methodology.
Explain the financial advantages of the AWS cloud.
Navigate the AWS Management Console.
Understand AWS compute, networking, storage, and database options.
Create cloud migration roadmaps and business continuity plans.
Use AWS to make infrastructures scalable.
Automate the deployment of cloud resources.
Design architectures to decouple infrastructure and reduce interdependencies.
Optimize data storage for static content.
Identify and solve common configuration and design issues.
Differentiate between architectures for data processing and analytics, mobile backends, and video transcoding.
Before taking this course, you should have:
An understanding of IT technical and business knowledge, and general concepts for networks, cloud computing, and distributed systems.
Familiarity with computer hardware, operating systems and basic scripting and programming knowledge.
While not required, students most successful in this course have:
A basic understanding of global infrastructure and architecture.
Familiarity with common AWS services and how and when they are used.
10-Week, Instructor-Led Course
Price:
$2,000
* Special Pricing: $1600
(Alumni, Veterans, Groups of 5 or more, and Catawba College Students, Faculty, and Staff)
Catawba Online
Email
online@catawba.edu
Hours
8am-5pm
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8am-5pm
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8am-5pm
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8am-5pm
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Phone
704.637.4402
Location
2300 W Innes St
Salisbury, NC 28144
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