A Quick Look at Amazon's AWS Services

In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began offering IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now commonly known as cloud computing. One of the key benefits of cloud computingis the opportunity to replace up-front capital infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale with your business. With the Cloud, businesses no longer need to plan for and procure servers and other IT infrastructure weeks or months in advance. Instead, they can instantly spin up hundreds or thousands of servers in minutes and deliver results faster.

Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Brazil, Singapore, Japan, and Australia, customers across all industries are taking advantage of the 

Services being provided by Azure:-

Compute & Networking:

•  Direct Connect
  AWS Direct Connect lets you establish a dedicated network connection from your network to AWS.
•  VPC
  Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) lets you launch AWS resources in a private, isolated cloud.

•  EC2
  Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
•  WorkSpaces
  Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud.

Storage & Content Delivery:

• CloudFront
  Amazon CloudFront provides a way to distribute content to end users with low latency and high data transfer speeds.
•  Storage Gateway
  AWS Storage Gateway securely integrates on-premises IT environments with cloud storage for backup and disaster recovery.

•  Glacier
  Amazon Glacier is a low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup.

Database:

•  DynamoDB
  Amazon DynamoDB is a scalable NoSQL data store that manages distributed replicas of your data for high availability.
•  Redshift
  Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that lets you efficiently analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools.

•  ElastiCache
  Amazon ElastiCache improves application performance by allowing you to retrieve information from an in-memory caching system.

Analytics:

• Data Pipeline
  AWS Data Pipeline is a lightweight orchestration service for periodic, data-driven workflows.

•  Elastic MapReduce
  Amazon Elastic MapReduce lets you perform big data tasks such as web indexing, data mining, and log file analysis.

• CloudFormation
  AWS CloudFormation lets you create and update a collection of related AWS resources in a predictable fashion.
•  Elastic Beanstalk
  AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an application container for deploying and managing applications.

•  CloudTrail
  AWS CloudTrail provides increased visibility into user activity by recording API calls made on your account.
•  IAM
  AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) lets you securely control access to AWS services and resources.

App Services:

• AppStream
  Amazon AppStream lets you stream resource intensive applications and games from the cloud to multiple end-user devices.
•  SES
  Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a bulk and transactional email-sending service.
•  SWF
  Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) coordinates all of the processing steps within an application.

•  CloudSearch
  AWS CloudSearch is a fully managed search service for websites and apps.
•  SNS
  Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) lets you publish messages to subscribers or other applications.

•  Elastic Transcoder
  Amazon Elastic Transcoder lets you convert your media files in the cloud easily, at low cost, and at scale.
•  SQS
  Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) offers a reliable, highly scalable, hosted queue for storing messages.

A Quick look at Microsoft Azure Services

Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment.

Services being provided by Azure:

Compute

• Virtual Machines
• Cloud Services
• Web Sites
• Mobile Services

Data Services

• Storage
• SQL Database
• HDInsight
• Cache
• Backup
• Site Recovery

App Services

• Media Services
• Service Bus
• Push Notifications
• Scheduler
• BizTalk Services
• Active Directory
• Multi-Factor Authentication
• Automation
• CDN
• API Management
• Azure RemoteApp

Network Services

• ExpressRoute
• Virtual Network
• Traffic Manager

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IPMA, PMP, Prince(2) Sample Project Book!

As part of my IPMA-Level D diploma and certification we have to submit work book (a sample project). I am sharing it so that if any one need it they can download and see sample. Please feel free to give your feedback.

Please note that all names, references and data figures are imaginary.

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100+ Potential Interview Questions

Basic Interview Questions:

1. Tell us about yourself.
2. Why do you want this job?
3. Why should I hire you?
4. How do you think you’re the best candidate for this job?
5. What’s your strength?
6. What are your abilities you’re proud at?
7. What are your major weaknesses?
8. Where do you see yourself after five years?
9. What’s in your opinion is an ideal company?
10. What made you to apply for job in this company?
11. What do you like least about your last job?
12. What was the best part in your last job?
13. When were you most satisfied in your career?
14. What can you do for us that other candidates can’t?
15. What was your job description in last job?
16. Why are you leaving your present employer?
17. How well you know about this industry?
18. What do you know about our company?
19. What do you know about our target market?
20. What do you know about our competitors?
21. Are you willing to relocate?
22. Do you have any questions for us?

Behavioral Questions:

1. What was your last project and how did it go?
2. Give me an example of a time that you felt you went above and beyond the call of duty at work.
3. Which of your work was ever criticized?
4. How did you feel when your work was criticized?
5. Have you ever been on a team where you had to carry someone else? How did you handle it?
6. Have you ever happened to give someone difficult feedback? How was it?
7. What was your greatest failure?
8. What did you learn from your failures?
9. What irritates you about other people, and how do you deal with it?
10. How do you handle a situation when you actually disagree with the supervisor on something?
11. What was the most difficult period in your career?
12. What did you learn from difficult times in career?
13. What was your biggest mistake and how did you handle?
14. What irritates you about other people, and how do you deal with it?
15. Tell us about a conflict on the job which you successfully handled.
16. If you were at a business lunch and you ordered a rare steak and they brought it to you well done, what would you do?
17. Can you perform better under pressure?
18. If you’re working under pressure, what would you compromise on; quality or quantity?
19. Are you a hard worker or a smart worker?
20. What would you do if you happen to find your company involved in something against law?
21. What assignment was too difficult for you, and how did you resolve the issue?
22. Have you ever made a difficult decision ever? How did it go?
23. Describe how you will handle a situation if you’re given a deadline and you know you need some more time?
24. If you’re hired and a competitor makes an offer to you; what would you do?

Salary Related Questions:

1. What salary you’re looking for?
2. What makes you feel that you deserve this amount of salary?
3. What was your last drawn salary?
4. Can you provide previous salary slip for verification?
5. If I were to give you this salary you requested but let you write your job description for the next year, what would it say?

Career Development Questions:

1. What’s your plan for career development?
2. What are your career goals for next year?
3. What are your career goals for next five years?
4. What kind of goals would you have in mind with this job?
5. What would be the comments of your previous supervisor about your performance?
6. How you keep yourself updated about the industry trends?
7. What’s latest news in your industry?

Workplace Related Questions:

1. Are you a team player?
2. When you provide maximum output, i.e. in isolation or in a team?
3. How much time will it take for you to get adapted to the new work environment?
4. How will you earn credibility quickly with the team?
5. How will you manage your subordinates who are difficult to deal with?
6. Can you do late sitting?
7. Can you work on weekends in case if it’s a deadline?
8. How long will it take for you to make a significant contribution to our organization?
9. What do you see yourself doing within the first 30 days of this job?
10. If selected for this position, can you describe your strategy for the first 90 days?

Tricky Questions That You Must Answer While Being Highly Attentive:

1. What’s your work style?
2. What is your ideal working environment?
3. Do you like listening to the music while working?
4. What do you look for in terms of culture — structured or entrepreneurial?
5. Give examples of ideas you’ve had or implemented at workplace?
6. What tools and tricks do you use to keep yourself organized?
7. Are you a pig picture person or a detailed oriented one?
8. If you have to hire one, who would you consider; a big-picture person or a detail-oriented person?
9. What is your biggest achievement so far?
10. Who was your favorite supervisor and why?
11. What do you think of your previous boss?
12. Who is your ideal in professional career and why?
13. Was there a person in your career who really made a difference?
14. What kind of people do you work best with and why?
15. What’s your pride?
16. What do you like to do when there’s no work at workplace?
17. What is your lifelong dream?
18. What’s your ultimate career goal?
19. What is your personal mission statement?
20. What are the best comments of your ex boss about you?
21. What negative things would your last boss say about you?
22. What three character traits would your friends use to describe you?
23. What are three positive character traits you don’t have?
24. If you were interviewing someone for this position, what traits would you look for?
25. List five words that describe your character.
26. Who has impacted you most in your career and how?
27. What is your greatest fear?
28. What is your biggest regret and why?
29. What’s the most important thing you learned in school?
30. What’s the most important thing you learned in college/university?
31. Why did you choose this particular major?
32. What’s missing in your present/last job?
33. What is your greatest non career related achievement?
34. What are the qualities of a good leader in your opinion?
35. Who do you think is a bad leader?
36. Do you think a leader should be feared or liked? Why?
37. How do you feel about taking no for an answer?
38. How would you feel about working under someone who knows less than you?
39. How do you rate me as an interviewer?
40. Tell me one thing about yourself you wouldn’t want me to know.
41. Tell me the difference between good and exceptional worker?
42. Which car do you drive?
43. Which places in the world you want to visit?
44. What’s the last book you read?
45. What magazines do you subscribe to?
46. What’s the best movie you’ve seen so far?  Why is that best?
47. What would you do if you won the lottery?
48. Who is your hero?
49. What do you like to do for fun?
50. What do you do in your spare time?
51. What is your favorite memory from childhood?
52. Are you brand conscious?
53. Which is your favorite clothing brand?

Brainteasers That Might Be Part of an Interview Session:

1. How many seconds are there in a day?
2. Which is the most expensive metal in world?
3. Which is important to excel in career; luck or mind?
4. How many times do a clock’s hands overlap in a day?
5. How would you weigh a plane without scales?
6. What are 10 ways to use a pencil other than writing?
7. Sell me a car!
8. If you were an animal, which one would you want to be?
9. Why is there fuzz on a tennis ball?
10. If you could choose one superhero power, what would it be and why?

Valentia Kinection

Valentia Kinection is open source community project. Purpose of Kinection is to provide user ability to publish Kinect data on socket, which then can be utilised on remote clients or HTML5 web pages using socket.

Project Description

Valentia Kinection serves as a pathway for transmission of data from Kinetic device to the web client. The service extracts data from the device and helps publish it on web sockets, which can then be accessed on web clients via HTML 5 supporting browser such as Safari. Kinect Service Manager operates as a client/server application that provides a platform to the three basic components of the service to communicate with each other, which are:

Kinect device

Kinection utility

Web client

Kinection first utilizes the attached Kinect sensor to accumulate image, depth and skeleton data, then filters this data and publishes it on web sockets. The service employs Microsoft Kinect SDK, which offers drivers and rich APIs for raw sensor streams and human motion tracking, to extract the image, depth and skeletal data from the sensor and publishes this data on the web using the SuperWebSocket. The web client caters for viewing Kinect data both in the form of Raw Data (joints ID) and Visual Skeleton (skeletal image).

Kinection allows you to stream Kinect color, depth and skeleton from one PC to another PC or a Windows Phone or iPhone/iPad or any other compatible device via websockets. Please review the client sample page for more details on how to use Kinection.

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Project Information URL: http://kinection.codeplex.com/
Project Download URL: http://kinection.codeplex.com/releases/view/86924

Project Source URL: http://kinection.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets

Chief Fire Officers’ Association 55th Annual Conference

Presenting CAD @ Ballymascanlon House Hotel, Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland

Ireland's leading Fire Conference and Fire Technology Exhibition is being held this year in Co. Louth. The theme of the Conference is:

“New Horizons for the Fire and Rescue Service of the Future”
The conference will focus on the changing role of the Fire and Rescue Service in the current environment. The Fire and Rescue Service responds to the needs of society in terms of the service provided and the way it is organised and there are various of models of service delivery and services provided here and in other countries. This Conference will be an opportunity to hear presentations from Fire Service personnel here and from other countries where changes in fire service structures and services delivered have occurred.

The Conference will include speakers from Holland, Finland, Luxembourg, where the structure of the fire service and the services provided are different than here. Presentations from UK speakers will focus on the current national fire service agenda and fire prevention and health and safety issues. Irish speakers will cover current developments in the Fire and Rescue and Building Control services and there will also be a Specialist Fire Protection presentation

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