Subscriptions: GK Polaris Accelerate (PL-ACCELERATE)

New & Exclusive - Over 18,000 hours of vendor-authorized and industry-validated on-demand courses, certification prep, practice exams, labs, learning paths and more.

The GK Polaris Accelerate Subscription is designed to develop and reinforce the competencies IT professionals need on the job. This is enabled by unlimited access to over 18,000 hours of vendor-authorized and industry-validated on-demand courses, certification prep, practice exams, labs, eBooks, and audiobooks in the following topics:

Microsoft (Azure, Dynamics, PowerShell, SQL, Windows and more) AWS
CompTIA
EC-Council
Google Cloud
Linux
Cloud
Cybersecurity
Data science
Leadership
Programming
Project management
Networking
Plus leadership, business skills, MS Office and more
 

Product Highlights
Skillsoft Technology & Developer Expert

8,000+ hours of on-demand courses, 10,000 digital books, 1,400 hours of labs and 2,600+ hours of exam
prep in Percipio, Skillsoft’s cutting-edge learning platform.
Aspire learning journeys that provide clear development paths for critical job roles.
Short, live-streamed bootcamps in subjects such as AWS, Microsoft, cybersecurity and programming.
Coding sandboxes to practice in non-production environments.
Live mentors through chat or email.
 

IT Pro Challenges

Hundreds of scenario-based lab challenges related to multiple platforms and technologies, such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, PowerShell, Linux, Security and more. Challenges have three levels of difficulty designed to extend and expand your learning experience.

 

AWS Digital Learning Library

The AWS Digital Learning courses are high quality AWS-authored videos organized into the following job role competencies:

Cloud Practitioner
Data Analyst
Architect
Developer
Operations Specialist
Data Engineer
Business Specialist
 

Whizlabs Certification Prep

Courses, labs, and practice tests for more than 150 popular certifications, including:

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification (AZ-104)
CompTIA A+ (220-1001 & 220-1002)
CompTIA Security+ (SY0-501)
CompTIA Network+ (N10-007)
 

CodeRed Pro

The “Gold Standard” of cybersecurity instruction and authored by globally-recognized experts
featuring:

1,500+ hours of premium content
6,000 videos curated in 280+ courses:
Infosec
Networking
Web
Cloud
Data Science
3,500+ lab “deep dives”
 

CyberQ

Continually train vital cyber talent, assess your security capabilities, and reveal and rapidly reduce risk to your business with a purpose-built cyber range platform from EC Council. Your Accelerate subscription includes ten new challenges each month.

Red and Blue Team Capture the Flag
Digital Investigation
Penetration Testing
Ethical Hacking
 

Microsoft Learn

All the great content available from MS Learn is integrated within the GK Experience Platform, enabling you to browse seamlessly to all of the “best of breed” content within the subscription without additional login steps.

Plus Polaris Launch subscription

Your subscription also includes GK Polaris Launch: more than 3,000 on-demand courses for:

IT Skills
Leadership
Business Skills
Microsoft Office and Windows

GK Polaris Accelerate contains a broad selection of courses that will appeal to IT professionals with varying experience levels – from those early in their career to those with advanced skills.

What’s Included

AWS Digital Learning

The AWS Digital Learning courses are high quality AWS-authored videos organized into the following job role competencies:

• Cloud Practitioner
• Data Analyst
• Architect
• Developer
• Operations Specialist
• Data Engineer
• Business Specialist

IT Pro Challenges All Access Pass

The All Access Pass includes access to hundreds of IT Pro challenges related to multiple platforms and technologies, such as Microsoft Azure, PowerShell, Linux, Security with AWS and Google Cloud (coming soon). There are also dozen of cybersecurity hands-on exercises. New challenges are continually being released, and you will gain automatic access to them for the duration of your subscription.

IT Pro Challenges are designed to extend and expand your learning experience with hands-on, scenario-based exercises. IT Pro Challenges are different from traditional labs, they provide you with high level guidance and requirements as opposed to detailed step-by-step instructions and designed specifically to provoke thought. IT Pro Challenges are divided into three different levels: Guided, Advanced, and Expert, with each level including a form of assessment so you may gauge your success.

Challenges by technology type:

• AWS: 45 challenges
• Containers: 12
• Cybersecurity: 55
• Linux: 78
• Microsoft 365: 13
• Microsoft Azure: 269
• Windows Server 2016: 96
• Windows Server 2019: 21
• VMware: 19

Microsoft Learn

Microsoft Learn is an online training platform that provides interactive learning for Microsoft products with the goal of helping you to become proficient on Microsoft technologies and learn more skills with fun, guided, hands-on, interactive content that's specific to your role and goals.

You receive access to over 2,200 learning modules across 380+ on-demand courses. Microsoft Learn provides role-based training and learning paths for Azure developers, solution architects, and administrators, as well as role-based training and learning paths for Microsoft Power BI, PowerApps, Dynamics365, Microsoft365, Office and Visual Studio.

AWS Certification Preparation Courses

Our AWS Certification Preparation courses, which are available on a wide number of platforms, provide all of the resources needed to prepare for and pass the following AWS Certification exams, and include unlimited access to videos, practice exams, exhaustive answers to questions, labs (where applicable), and expert support.

 

AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification

Six-plus hours of video, mock exams with 260+ practice questions, section quizzes, and 20+ labs, help to demonstrates and validate your knowledge on the overall understanding of the AWS Cloud Platform, irrespective of any particular technical role.

 

• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Certification
  
  • 15+ hours of video (including important topics such as EC2, IAM, Aurora, Cloudwatch, and Alarms), 12 full-length mock exams, 700+ practice questions, three section quizzes, and 42+ labs, help to demonstrate and validate your knowledge in operating, managing, and deploying AWS-based systems.

 

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Certification
  
  • 17+ hours of video (including important topics such as S3, EC2, VPC, SNS, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, and CloudFormation), 675+ practice test questions, seven full-length mock exams, and unlimited access to 43 labs.

 

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Certification Preparation Courses

Our Google Cloud Platform Certification Preparation courses, which are available on a wide number of platforms, provide all of the resources needed to prepare for and pass the following GC Certification exams, and include unlimited access to videos, practice exams, exhaustive answers to questions, labs (where applicable), and expert support.

Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Certificatio

• The Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Certification course demonstrates and validates your knowledge of how to deploy applications, monitor operations, and manage enterprise solutions on the Google Cloud Platform with everything you need to prepare for and pass the certification exam.
  • Seven-plus of videos encompassing all of the certification exam objectives.
  • Three full-length mock exams with 150+ unique exam practice questions.
  •  Unlimited access to labs covering all the important topics like GCP Console, GCP Compute Engine, and Identity and Access Management.

 

Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Certification

• The Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Certification course demonstrates and validates your knowledge of designing, developing, and managing secure, robust, and dynamic solutions on the Google Cloud Platform.
  
  • 10+ hours of videos encompassing all of the certification exam objectives.
  • Four full-length mock exams with 200+ unique exam practice questions.
  • Four section quizzes covering the most important topics for the exam, including Designing for Security and Compliance, and Managing and Provisioning a Solution Infrastructure.

 

Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification

The Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification course demonstrates and validates your knowledge of how to make data driven decisions by collecting, visualizing, and transforming data, and includes everything you need to prepare for and pass the certification exam.

• Seven-plus hours of videos encompassing all of the certification exam objectives and domain:
  
  • Designing data processing systems
  • Building and operationalizing data processing systems
  • Operationalizing machine learning models
  • Ensuring solution quality
• Four full-length mock exams with 150+ unique exam practice questions.
• Unlimited access to labs covering all the important topics like GCP Console, GCP Compute Engine, and Identity and Access Management.

 

GK Polaris Launch

Powered by Develop, one of Global Knowledge's trusted partners, GK Polaris Launch subscription consists of over 430 foundational on-demand courses designed to build a basic level of knowledge and skills across a range of technology topics, including software development, DevOps, cybersecurity, project management, networking and cloud.

Also included are more than 6,000 Microsoft Office productivity lessons: end user training for Windows, Office, and Office 365.