Skillsoft Bootcamps Books

Offering the most up to date information and practical advice, this book is an essential resource for IT administrators needing to create and manage a public cloud and virtual network using Microsoft Azure.

By John Savill

Gain the technical and business insight needed to plan, deploy, and manage the services provided by the Microsoft Azure cloud. This book focuses on improving operational decision tipping points for the professionals leading DevOps and security teams.

By Anthony Puca, Julian Soh, Marshall Copeland, Micheleen Harris

Start developing Azure Functions and building simple solutions for serverless computing without worrying about infrastructure.

By Agus Kurniawan, Wely Lau

This guide shows you how to take advantage of Azure's vast and powerful built-in security tools and capabilities for your application workloads.

By David Rendon, Peter De Tender, Samuel Erskine

Helping you understand common security pitfalls and discover weak points in your organization's data security, and what you can do to combat them, this book includes the best approaches to managing mobile devices both on your local network and outside the office.

By Matthew Katzer

Providing helpful advice illustrated by examples and case studies, this unique guide on predictive text mining offers a unified perspective on a rapidly evolving field, integrating topics spanning the varied disciplines of data science, machine learning, databases, and computational linguistics.

By Nitin Indurkhya, Sholom M. Weiss, Tong Zhang

Helping you master this suite of powerful tools from Microsoft, this insightful guide helps you take business intelligence delivery to a new level that is interactive, engaging, even fun, all while driving commercial success through sound decision-making.

By Adam Aspin

Covering the basic reporting and analysis functions that most BI users perform in their day-to-day work, this practical book simplifies the use of Tableau software functionality for novice users so that they can create powerful data visualizations easily and quickly.

By Arshad Khan

For those who want to learn R programming for statistics, this resource is a timely skills-migration book that equips you with the R programming fundamentals and introduces you to applied statistics for data explorations.

By Eric Goh Ming Hui

Including numerous case studies and examples throughout, this book will teach you how to build machine learning models, natural language processing applications, and recommender systems with PySpark to solve various business challenges.

By Pramod Singh

Detailing how to define a problem, perform an analysis, and deploy the results, this indispensible book equips readers with advanced data mining methods that are needed to successfully translate raw data into smart decisions across various fields of research.

By Glenn J. Myatt, Wayne P. Johnson

This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that the tools that help visualize complex data have become incredibly sophisticated. But you want the right tool for the right job.

By MIT Sloan Management Review

This article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how companies need to shift goals, muster resources, and align people in order to implement successful data programs.

By Thomas C. Redman, Thomas H. Davenport

This article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how there has been a huge demand for data scientists in the past decade and wonders if it is about to change.

By Jeffrey D. Camm, Melissa R. Bowers, Thomas H. Davenport

This article from MIT Sloan Management Review shows that a new organizational structure is needed in order to better align data teams with business operations.

By Diego Kuonen, Roger W. Hoerl, Thomas C. Redman

This article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about what every industry can learn from luxury fashion.

By Andrea Marron

Bringing together various perspectives from internationally renowned researchers, this text also explores a variety of real-world applications of NLP and text-mining algorithms, placing emphasis on the description of end-to-end solutions to real problems.

By Anne Kao, Steve R. Poteet (eds)

This book explains how recommender systems work and shows how to create and apply them for your site.

By Kim Falk

Providing numerous tools, modeling techniques, and real-world use cases, this invaluable resource takes a practice-oriented approach to explaining basic principles in the ever-expanding field of data science.

By John Mount, Nina Zumel

Quickly start programming with Python 3 for data visualization with this step-by-step, detailed guide. This book's programming-friendly approach using libraries such as leather, NumPy, Matplotlib, and Pandas will serve as a template for business and scientific visualizations.

By Ashwin Pajankar

Including extensive case studies, most in a tutorial format, this comprehensive professional reference brings together all the information, tools and methods a professional will need to efficiently use text mining applications and statistical analysis.

By Gary Miner, et al.

Focus on the most important and most often overlooked factor in a successful Tableau project-data.

By Lori Blackshear, Tim Costello

Helping you to deliver eye-catching Business Intelligence with Microsoft Power BI Desktop, this book shows you how to choose from a wide range of built-in and third-party visualization types so that your message is always enhanced.

By Adam Aspin

Along with demonstrations and illustrations, this book will help you make sense of data quickly and effectively, make you look at data differently and more imaginatively, and help those familiar with Tableau software chart their journey to a visualization expert.

By Seema Acharya, Subhashini Chellappan

In this Book you will learn the fundamentals of programming, the text assumes no programming experience.

By James R. Parker

For anyone who wants to produce graphic visualizations to gain insights from gathered data, this book will give you a sound understanding of R programming so you will be able to write your own scripts that can be executed to produce graphic visualizations for data analysis.

By Mike McGrath

Examining cases with valuable combinations of interdisciplinary knowledge, theory, and practice, this thorough resource for programmers serves as a reference book on R, introducing more than 30 R packages that are convenient to look up, and will help readers extend their scope of knowledge.

By Dan Zhang

Focusing on practical solutions, this book offers a crash course in statistics and covers elegant methods for dealing with messy and incomplete data that are difficult to analyze using traditional methods.

By Robert Kabacoff

Written to celebrate the 25th anniversary of SMS standardization by the people who produced the standards, this book describes the development of the SMS standard and its ongoing evolution, and also looks to the future, as a large number of new GSM and evolved GSM phones will support SMS as a mass market high availability messaging service, a new simple Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) suitable for use by everyone.

By Friedhelm Hillebrand (ed), et al.

Showing you how to build dynamic, best of breed visualizations using the Tableau Software toolset, this comprehensive guide covers the core feature set for data analytics, and provides clear, step-by-step guidance toward best practices and advanced techniques that go way beyond the user manual.

By Daniel G. Murray

Featuring an extensive set of case studies, so you can see examples of how the applications work with real-world data from a variety of industries, this book provides detailed, step-by-step instructions and explanations on how to mine your text data for valuable insight.

By Goutam Chakraborty, Murali Pagolu, Satish Garla

With the help of numerous real-world examples and case studies, this book takes a practical, hands-on approach to teaching you a reliable, cost-effective method to mining the vast, untold riches buried within all forms of text using R.

By Ted Kwartler

Providing you with the expertise and tools required to develop a solid data strategy that is continuously effective, this book will teach you how to think like a veteran data scientist and approach solutions to business problems in an entirely new way.

By Stylianos Kampakis

Providing an in-depth examination of core text mining and link detection algorithms and operations, this text examines advanced pre-processing techniques, knowledge representation considerations, and visualization approaches.

By James Sanger, Ronen Feldman

This book helps you understand where algorithmic bias comes from, how to manage it as a business user or regulator, and how data science can prevent bias from entering statistical algorithms.

By Tobias Baer

Providing cross-disciplinary perspectives on text mining and its applications, this book offers focused studies describing text mining on historical texts, automated indexing using constrained vocabularies, and the use of natural language processing to explore the climate science literature.

By Emma L. Tonkin, Gregory J.L. Tourte (eds)

Containing more than 1,000 practice questions accompanied by in-depth explanations for both correct and incorrect answers, this highly effective, exam-focused study resource will enable you to take the 2018 version of the challenging CAPM exam with confidence.

By Cate McCoy, James L. Haner

With learning objectives, exam tips, practice exam questions, and in-depth explanations, this up-to-date resource offers complete coverage of all the material included on the Certified Associate in Project Management and Project Management Professional exams.

By Joseph Phillips

Addressing project management in the context of information systems, this book deals with general project management principles, with focus on the special characteristics of information systems.

By David L. Olson

This book features a beautiful 4-color design that helps you visualize powerful strategic ideas, so you can understand and implement them right away. Unlike other books on the market, this title helps you reinterpret key Agile management concepts in a way that will work for your specific needs.

By Michael Wong

Combining traditional project management skills with outside-the-box thinking and business creativity, this book provides an invaluable new set of tools for any project management professional tasked with making difficult decisions in these uncertain times.

By Michael S. Dobson, Ted Leemann

The popular guide to the project management body of knowledge, now fully updated

By Robert K. Wysocki

Detailing how the moving parts in embedded systems development affect one another, this step-by-step book shows how to properly use both engineering tools and new tools and methods to reduce waste, rework, and product time-to-market.

By Mohsen Mirtalebi

Providing the tools, insights, and metrics needed to successfully manage innovation projects, this book will help readers identify problems in their organization, conceive elegant solutions, and, when necessary, promote changes to their organizational culture.

By Harold Kerzner

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Peter Schuh

Including international examples and case studies throughout, this in-depth book explains the theory and practice of change management and comprehensively covers the models, tools, and techniques of successful change management.

By Esther Cameron, Mike Green

Including case studies from global organizations, this book reveals how to shape organizations that will enable people to make faster and better decisions in a more complex world.

By Amy Kates, Greg Kesler, Michele DiMartino

PM Illustrated: A visual learner's guide to project management shows you how the various elements that make up the PMP(r) exam fit together. Using mindmaps and illustrations, the entire PMP(r) exam syllabus is explained with memorable graphics and cartoons to boost recall and shorten your study time.

By Mike Griffiths

Featuring more than 240 accurate practice questions with in-depth answer explanations, this comprehensive book offers 100% coverage of all current exam objectives and shows, step-by-step, how to successfully set up and configure an Agile framework-based project.

By Joseph Phillips

An all-in-one package for comprehensive exam preparation, this up-to-date guide is fully aligned with the latest version of the exam, featuring coverage of 100 percent of the exam domains.

By J. Ashley Hunt

The book helps you prepare for the exam, and it will continue to serve project managers as an on-the-job reference book.

By Kim Heldman

This book guides you through Project Management Professional (PMP) exam.

By Kim Heldman

Drawing on the author's extensive knowledge in aerospace and defense contracting, this exciting new resource guides readers through a step-by-step process on how to deliver quality, robust products and services while strengthening teams and customer relationships.

By Nehal Patel

Using relatable case examples throughout, this unique guide demonstrates a practical and proven approach to using project management strategies, tools, and techniques to consistently create successful procurement practices that go beyond mere cost savings.

By Diana L. Lindstrom

Introducing the latest project management thinking, terminology and standards, this book explains the principles of IT-related project management, including project planning, monitoring and control, change management, risk management more.

By Bob Hughes

Providing practical guidance on all aspects of project management (PM), this book features a streamlined approach to PM functions without stinting on detailed coverage of the tools and methods used at all stages of a project.

By Harold Kerzner

Authored by world-renowned project management experts and illustrated with handy tables, charts, models, and callout boxes, this compact reference summarizes best practices for defining, designing, developing, and producing project results.

By David I. Cleland, Lewis R. Ireland

Complete with checklists, charts, examples, and tools for easy implementation, this handy guide is filled with step-by-step guidance that will enable managers to get complex projects completed on time and on budget.

By Tom Kendrick

Learn Microsoft Project 2019 from the perspective of the project manager. This guide is an all-in-one training resource and reference that covers all versions found in the Microsoft Project 2019 suite.

By Gus Cicala

This edition is designed to address practitioners' current and future needs and to help them be more proactive, innovative and nimble in enabling desired project outcomes.

By Project Management Institute

Including chapter summary highlights and review questions to help you gauge your understanding of the material, this complete resource provides guidance toward all content areas, tasks, and knowledge areas of the exam and is illustrated with real-world examples.

By Allen Keele, Brian T. O'Hara, David Cannon

Written by an information security executive consultant, experienced author, and university instructor, this highly effective integrated self-study system enables you to take the challenging CISM exam with complete confidence.

By Peter H. Gregory

Take the current version of the challenging CISM exam with complete confidence using the relevant practice questions contained in this effective self-study guide.

By Peter H. Gregory

Featuring learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, exam tips, practice questions, and in-depth explanation, this completely up-to-date self-study system helps you pass the exam with ease and also serves as an essential on-the-job reference.

By Fernando Maymí, Shon Harris

This is a comprehensive guide for individuals preparing for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam. The book's main focus is to provide readers with a wealth of practice questions and expert tips to help them pass the CISSP exam.

By Mohamed Aly Bouke

If you're a security professional seeking your CISSP certification, this expert guide is a perfect way to prepare for the exam.

By Lawrence C. Miller, Peter H. Gregory

Designed to help you pass the test with ease, this thorough resource offers complete coverage of all eight CISSP exam domains and each chapter features practice exam questions, a quick answer key, and in-depth answer explanations to reinforce what you've learned.

By Jonathan Ham, Shon Harris

Covering 100% of all exam objectives, this book will help you prepare for the exam smarter and faster thanks to expert content, real-world examples, advice on passing each section of the exam, and much more.

By Darril Gibson, James Michael Stewart, Mike Chapple

Providing an understanding of the scripting languages that are commonly used when developing tools for penetration testing, this book guides you through specific examples of custom tool development and the situations where such tools might be used.

By Jason Andress, Ryan Linn

Including exam tips, practice exam questions, and in-depth explanations, this authoritative guide addresses the skills required for securing a network and managing risk, and will help you pass the latest version of the CompTIA Security+ exam with complete confidence.

By Chuck Cothren, Dwayne Williams, Gregory White, Roger L. Davis, Wm. Arthur Conklin

Including exam tips, practice exam questions, and in-depth explanations, this authoritative guide addresses the skills required for securing a network and managing risk, and will help you pass the latest version of the CompTIA Security+ exam with complete confidence.

By Gregory White, Wm. Arthur Conklin

Providing hundreds of accurate practice questions and detailed answer explanations, this fully updated, exam-focused study aid covers everything you need to know and shows you how to prepare for the CompTIA Security+ exam.

By Daniel Lachance, Glen E. Clarke

This book covers what you need to know-and shows you how to prepare-for this challenging exam.

By Glen Clarke

With hundreds of practice exam questions, including difficult performance-based ones, this fully updated, exam-focused study aid covers everything you need to know and shows you how to prepare for the CompTIA Security+ exam.

By Glen E. Clarke

Including lesson objectives and instruction that succinctly review each major topic, this book will help you prepare for the CompTIA Security+ certification exam that covers the skills required to perform core security functions and pursue a career in IT.

By Ahmed F. Sheikh

Offering invaluable practice for candidates preparing for Exam SY0-501, this book covers 100% of the exam objectives and provides 1,000 practice questions to help you test your knowledge and maximize your performance well in advance of exam day.

By Chuck Easttom, S. Russell Christy

You'll find 1000 practice questions on topics like general security concepts, threats, vulnerabilities, mitigations, security architecture, security operations, and security program oversight.

By David Seidl

Giving you a secret weapon for passing certification Exam SY0-501, this practical book provides tight, concise reviews of all essential topics throughout each of the exam's six domains to help you reinforce what you know.

By James Michael Stewart

You'll explore general security concepts, threats, vulnerabilities, mitigations, security architecture and operations, as well as security program management and oversight.

By David Seidl, Mike Chapple

Concisely covering the main objectives of the exam with key concepts highlighted, this thorough book is streamlined for maximum efficiency of study, making it ideal for professionals updating their certification or for those taking the test for the first time.

By Eric Conrad, Joshua Feldman, Seth Misenar

Designed to keep you at the top of your game performing cutting-edge pen tests from anywhere in the world, this book shows you how to perform penetration tests using small, low-powered devices that are easily hidden and may be battery-powered.

By Philip Polstra

A ground shaking exposé on the failure of popular cyber risk management methods, this insightful book exposes the shortcomings of current "risk management" practices and offers a series of improvement techniques that help you fill the holes and ramp up security.

By Douglas W. Hubbard, Richard Seiersen

In the newly revised How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk, Second Edition, a pioneering information security professional and a leader in quantitative analysis methods delivers yet another eye-opening text applying the quantitative language of risk analysis to cybersecurity.

By Douglas W. Hubbard, Richard Seiersen

The book's co-authors bring decades of experience as cybersecurity practitioners and educators, integrating real-world expertise with the practical knowledge you'll need to successfully prove your CISSP mastery. Combined, they've taught cybersecurity concepts to millions of students through their books, video courses, and live training programs.

By Darril Gibson, James Michael Stewart, Mike Chapple

The CISSP credential signifies a body of knowledge and a set of guaranteed skills that put you in demand in the marketplace. This book is your ticket to achieving this prestigious certification, by helping you test what you know against what you need to know.

By David Seidl, Mike Chapple

Using the factor analysis of information risk (FAIR) methodology developed over ten years and adopted by corporations worldwide, this book provides a proven and credible framework for understanding, measuring, and analyzing information risk of any size or complexity.

By Jack Freund, Jack Jones

Featuring accurate practice exam questions and in-depth answer explanations, this powerful exam preparation resource presents an accelerated review of the pertinent technology and covers all objectives for the CompTIA Security+ exam.

By Dawn Dunkerley

Featuring hundreds of accurate practice questions, this practical resource goes beyond knowledge application and teaches you the skills you need to anticipate security risks and guard against them.

By Mike Meyers, Scott Jernigan

Helping you get on the fast track to becoming CompTIA Security+ certified, this book provides expert advice on critical topics, end-of-chapter questions, answers and explanations, common exam pitfalls and solutions, concise definitions of key terms and concepts, and more.

By Dawn Dunkerley

By using disguise, espionage, stealth, and concealment, this book throws traditional pen testing methods out the window to demonstrate how thinking and acting like a ninja can actually grant you quicker, more complete access to a company's assets - before a hacker does.

By Jason Andress, Thomas Wilhelm

Learn how to break systems, networks, and software in order to determine where the bad guys might get in. Once the holes have been determined, this short book discusses how they can be fixed.

By Ric Messier

Explaining the process of penetration testing and the benefits it brings, this book provides essential insight and tips for setting up a penetration testing program, maintaining it, and responding to the results.

By BCS-CREST Penetration Testing Working Group

Written for programmers, developers, and IS professionals who want to learn about web application security and how to audit it, this book will help you become an effective penetrator in order to circumvent security features of Web applications.

By Andres Andreu

Focusing on the three most powerful pentesting tools, this book will get you started with NMAP, OpenVAS, and Metasploit and will help you understand how they can be integrated with each other for greater flexibility and efficiency.

By Sagar Rahalkar

Providing easy-to-understand models and examples, this hands-on resource gives you the practical methodology and everything you need to plan and execute a social engineering penetration test and assessment.

By Andrew Mason, Gavin Watson, Richard Ackroyd

Teaching you how to take over an enterprise network from the inside, this book lays out every stage of an internal security assessment step-by-step, showing you how to identify weaknesses before a malicious invader can do real damage.

By Royce Davis

Whether you've earned your CISSP credential or are looking for a valuable resource to help advance your security career, this comprehensive guide offers everything you need to apply the knowledge of the most recognized body of influence in information security.

By John Warsinske, et al.

Focusing on offensive security and how to attack web applications, this innovative new resource provides both professionals and aspiring professionals with clear guidance on how to identify and exploit common web application vulnerabilities.

By Serge Borso

Assisting leaders who are accountable for the rapid development of high-quality software applications, this concise guide shows you how to design, implement, measure, and improve DevOps programs that are tailored to your organization.

By Aruna Ravichandran, Kieran Taylor, Peter Waterhouse

Explore and apply best practices for efficient application deployment.

By Moshe Zadka

Detailing how the moving parts in embedded systems development affect one another, this step-by-step book shows how to properly use both engineering tools and new tools and methods to reduce waste, rework, and product time-to-market.

By Mohsen Mirtalebi

Providing Angular coverage tailored specially to developers working with ASP.NET Core MVC, this book covers each topic clearly and concisely and is packed with the essential details you need to learn to be truly effective.

By Adam Freeman

Whether you are new to AngularJS and Spring RESTful web services, or you are a seasoned expert, this thorough book will teach you how to build a full-featured web application from scratch using AngularJS and Spring RESTful web services.

By Ravi Kant Soni

Learn agile JavaScript web development using the latest cutting-edge front-end and back-end technologies including Node.js, MongoDB, Backbone.js, Parse.com, Heroku, and Microsoft Azure.

By Azat Mardan

Teaching you to write server-side code in JavaScript using Node.js, this book provides 37 fast-paced, fun, and practical lessons that will help you discover how to extend your existing JavaScript skills to write back-end code for your web applications.

By Jonathan Wexler

This book teaches you how to develop full-stack web applications using the MEAN stack.

By Cliver Harber, Simon Holmes

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to JavaScript, from how it works at a technical level to how it is used to create websites and applications.

By Jonathon Simpson

Serving as a starting point for deeper exploration of HTML5, this book includes material on HTML5 Semantic Markup, CSS3, Canvas, SVG, GeoLocation, WebSockets, and HTML5 hybrid apps with jQuery Mobile.

By Oswald Campesato

This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.

By Peter Schuh

Through carefully explained examples, this book teaches web developers how to build mobile apps using Ionic and AngularJS.

By Jeremy Wilken

Including numerous case studies and examples throughout, this book will teach you how to build machine learning models, natural language processing applications, and recommender systems with PySpark to solve various business challenges.

By Pramod Singh

Explore what React, Node, TypeScript, Webpack, and Docker have to offer individually, and how they all fit together in modern app development.

By Frank Zammetti

Develop attractive and efficient dynamic web applications using Node.js.

By Dhruti Shah

This book explains how recommender systems work and shows how to create and apply them for your site.

By Kim Falk

Going in-depth to give you the knowledge you need, this thorough book shows you how to use Angular in your projects, starting from the nuts and bolts and building up to the most advanced and sophisticated features.

By Adam Freeman

Welcome to this one-stop-shop for learning Angular. This book is the most concise and comprehensive guide available, giving you the knowledge you need to take full advantage of this popular framework for building your own dynamic JavaScript applications.

By Adam Freeman

With many practical examples and best practice insight, this thorough guide will help you to quickly understand HTML5 markup elements and when to use them, and then apply the latest CSS3 features to create amazing web pages.

By Mark J. Collins

Providing the tools necessary to set up, write your code once, and be able to deploy your code on any device, this accessible book enables you to quickly learn everything needed to work effectively with MEAN.

By Elad Elrom

Though the primary focus of this guide is to equip you with all that is required to build a full-fledged web application, a large portion of the book will be devoted to React 16.

By Vasan Subramanian

Offering a critical reference for anyone using MongoDB, this thorough resource includes details about the software you need and hands-on examples of working with MongoDB and these technologies so you know exactly what to do, whatever your MongoDB implementation requires.

By Deepak Vohra

Explaining what REST really is and how you can use it to your advantage, this book will show you how to use a variety of modules including JSON/Hal, Express, Restify, Vatican, and Swagger, and how to build an example RESTful API from start to finish.

By Fernando Doglio

In this Book you will learn the fundamentals of programming, the text assumes no programming experience.

By James R. Parker

Featuring a core application to explore and build yourself, this book shows you how to utilize ngrx/store as a state management with Redux pattern, and how to utilize ngrx/effects to define a better and more robust application architecture.

By Oren Farhi

Giving you the development skills you need to create reactive applications with RxJS, this book is full of theory and practical examples that build on each other and help you begin thinking in a reactive manner.

By Luis Atencio, Paul P. Daniels

Helping you take your Node.js application into production-ready status capable of scaling up to whatever your needs might be, this book will teach you when to scale, what factors should trigger scaling, and what architectural techniques are best suited for scaling.

By Fernando Doglio

Helping you understand the technical foundations, as well as the non-programming skills needed to be a successful full stack web developer, this book reveals the reasons why a truly successful full stack developer does more than write code.

By Chris Northwood