ONLC BLOG Your Guide to Tech Skills & Certifications

Google Analytics

Google Analytics provides a window into your site’s visitors, activity, and conversion metrics. What level of metrics you (or others) can access, edit, and create is tied to user permissions. Google Analytics user permissions are critical to understanding as an admin when granting access to colleagues, employees, and digital marketing agencies.  What are Google Analytics […]

Comparing IPsec vs. SSL VPNs ONLC Training Centers
Editorial

VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) have been used for years for remote access to a network for users to their corporate or education networks. The end goal of a VPN is to provide remote users access to network resources. There are two main types of VPN software in existence today, IPsec and SSL. IPsec has been […]

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Microsoft

The ribbon toolbar of Microsoft Word contains a seemingly infinite number of useful buttons that execute various commands to help you build your documents. Most, if not all, of these buttons have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them. You can become much faster and more efficient at building Word documents if you can learn the keyboard […]

Security Certification Course
Certifications

With so many options available, it can be tough to know what cybersecurity certification is the right fit for your current skills, your future goals, and your personal interests. Certifications for CompTIA Security+ and CASP, Microsoft Security, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). Certified Information Systems […]

PPT Tips and Tricks
MicrosoftMicrosoft Powerpoint

Most of us have either viewed or given a PowerPoint presentation at one time or another. Microsoft PowerPoint has been the most popular software for creating and delivering presentations on just about anything for decades. Even if you don’t work in a so-called “white-collar” job, you probably at least have heard of PowerPoint. Most likely, […]

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Certifications

Technology changes almost as often as some people change clothes. On a weekly, sometimes daily basis, our devices ask us to update this, download that, or do some kind of system check to make sure everything is current.  So, it stands to reason that if the technology is shifting like that, user knowledge of it […]

Microsoft

Microsoft SQL Server has been one of the most powerful and widely used relational database systems for over 20 years now. Along with Oracle and MySQL, SQL Server is one of the most widely used enterprise database management systems. Learning how to use any relational database system can help boost almost any career, but if […]

Microsoft Excel

Administrative assistants keep any office they work in humming. They forecast scenarios, diagnose problems, and organize information quickly and concisely, making their superiors and colleagues look good by virtue. And there might not be a tool that’s more indispensable to them than Microsoft Excel. For experienced assistants, there are many uses of Excel in the […]

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AutoCAD

Computer-Aided Drafting and Design was invented in the late ’70s by engineers and architects who wanted a better way to create drawings that could be used for engineering, drafting, and manufacturing. Sitting at a drafting table for hours upon hours creating and modifying drawings with pencil and paper was a very tedious and time-consuming process. […]

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