(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best information management books

Excellent practice of software delivery in Scrum is an extremely difficult skill to master. Don't expect easy answers, but seek out a rigorous course of mastery. Be wary of those who flatter with easy paths to success and cherish those who challenge your ego.

Step one, and don't ignore this:

http://scrumguides.org

This is your first mentor. I recommend reading it once a day for 2 weeks. Ask someone to quiz you on it until you know it back wards and forwards. This is the first form, like when learning a martial art. Think on it deeply and concentrate first on what it says to do. Then just do it. If you have questions, give your sensei the benefit of the doubt and just get good at understanding and executing the basic forms.

After that, explore the "why's" behind the roles, events, artifacts and rules. For reading I recommend:

Scrum: A Pocket Guide

At this stage, it's imperative to find a mentor, someone who has progressed through this "why" stage and can guide you efficiently in this next stage of learning and will help you avoid harmful pitfalls. Look online, in forums, maybe this sub, local meetups, name brand web sites like Scrum.org and keep looking until you find this person. All people will approach this stage of mastery and have the temptation to proclaim, "I've got this!" when they don't. They are on the edge of true understanding and wisdom.

Beyond this is true mastery and expertise. This is where folks tend to write their own playbooks and is beyond the scope of this suggestion. Feel free to reach out to me with any specific questions you may have.

Well you already have half of what you need (the “business” in “business intelligence”).
Do you have an idea of what kind of work you would like to do? BI is a pretty broad subject, here’s some examples :


ETL developper : You develop executables to extract data from various sources (databases, flat files, Excel, web), clean that data (using cool tools) and load it into a data warehouse, so the data can be used easily. This is the most technical type of job in BI.
Data warehouse designer / data architect : Design various "databases" to gather the data needed for other BI processes (dashboards, analytics, ...). You can also work with big data tools if needed.


Report / dashboard developper : Display information on a screen to help people make better decisions. Here you have to talk to a lot of different people from a shop floor employee to a CEO. You mostly work with tools like Power BI and Tableau.


Business analyst / data scientist : search for valuable "stuff" in the data that you don't see with visual reports and dashboard. You use statistics and algorithms to solve business problems. You mostly work with Python and R.


Some people only have one role, some people have many. Usually the smallest the business, the more roles you have.


As for what you should learn. There's no escaping SQL. Make sure you understand what is the point of a database and how it works (broadly). Python is good if you're going the analytics route. Power BI and Tableau are usually good skills to have to land an entry level position. Tools are good, but make sure you understand what is the classical BI process.


This book gives a very good overview of what is BI and what problems it tries to solve. I think it's a very good place to start.


[Business Intelligence Guidebook: From Data Integration to Analytics](
https://www.amazon.com/Business-Intelligence-Guidebook-Integration-Analytics/dp/012411461X/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=22395DI4CLI74&keywords=business+intelligence+guidebook&qid=1557632916&s=gateway&sprefix=business+intelligence+guide%2Caps%2C130&sr=8-1)


BI is more about the "B" than any tools or techniques, so whatever you do, make sure it helps the business.


Welcome to the lovely world of BI!

IT Service Management (ITSM) is one of the big technical terms that gets thrown around for that kind of thing. Another is Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), which is a set of 'standard' practices for ITSM. (Products will often boast whether they 'ITIL-compliant') That, and some ISO 20k compliance, is generally considered standard. It's not glamorous, but it is what it is.

I'm more on the DevOps side of things - practices like agile development, continuous delivery, etc - but searching Amazon brings up a few books on ITSM. I haven't read it, but this one looks decent from the table of contents - not sure if it focuses much on determining and tracking useful metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs): The Practical Guide To World-Class IT Service Management - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578188988

Ten Steps To ITSM Success also looks pretty good: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1849284563

There's a lot of books that look like they're all in the same series... Architecting / Implementing / Organizing / Servicing / Measuring ITSM (But I tend to avoid books that make you buy several like that - 5+ related mini books on the same subject? No thanks, I'll pass).

ITSM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT_service_management

ITIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITIL

You might also be OK with an ITIL study guide, but that's probably more dry. Alternatively, if you're looking for something less process-centric, you may be interested in books that talk about how to improve customer service skills (The Service Culture Handbook, Extra Mile - I haven't read these either, though), or building communication skills (Just Listen, Crucial Conversations - I can recommend both of these)

I can also recommend a related text - The DevOps Handbook, but that isn't specifically on ITSM (but it has aspects related to IT Operations that come up). This is a 'followup' to the Phoenix Project, so is probably more in the realm of 'cool/modern' that you're looking for.

I'm part of a CIO organisation and I spend most of my personal development time learning about what role a CIO should/could be performing within an organisation. Most of the literature I have come across puts the CIO role in context of digital disruption and the '4th industrial revolution'.

The concept I agree with most is that a CIO is 1 of 4 digital / technology leaders within an organisation and that the CIO's primary role is to provide cost effective, reliable and agile platform(s). The other leaders focus on process improvement, customer experience, and business strategy. That's in an ideal world and obviously things are very rarely ever ideal.

If you are a fan of the Pheonix project and you have aspirations towards leadership then I also recommend picking up Leading Digital. It's not as fun to read as Pheonix project but it has some great examples of how higher level IT departments are functioning.

Now if you can get your company to agree that the CIO is responsible for a cost effective, reliable and flexible platform then I would challenge that sysadmins actually can become fantastic CIO's. Sysadmins have a much harder transition towards the other digital leaders which are responsible for process improvement and customer experience which is where business knowledge is key.

For your particular application I would look at OpenStreetMaps. Otherwise...

David Hay's

• [Enterprise Model Patterns][1]. This is a beast of a book, but has some great patterns.
  
• [Conventions of Thought][2]. More stuff on MRP.
  
• [A Meta-Data Map][3] . Haven't read this one.
  
  Len Silverston's
  
  
• [Data Model Resource Book Vol. 1][4]. Your main data model patterns.
  
• [Data Model Resource Book Vol. 2][5]. Case studies by industry.
  
• [Data Model Resource Book Vol. 3][6]. A deeper explanation of Vol 1.
  
  Michael Blaha's [Patterns of Data Modeling][7]. This one has some interesting temporal, graph, and tree models.
  
  Martin Fowler's [Analysis Patterns][8]. This one skims some of the other patterns, but gives accounting a solid treatment.
  
  They are all well-rated, and I have read all but one, and they are all very good. Several of them are available on [safaribooksonline][9].
  
  Also, OASIS's [Universal Business Language][10], schemas
  
  
  [1]: http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Model-Patterns-Describing-Version/dp/1935504053/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346950468&sr=1-1&keywords=enterprise%20model%20patterns
  [2]: http://www.amazon.com/Data-Model-Patterns-David-Hay/dp/0932633749/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1PQPGE4E6T2RPR2XTN80
  [3]: http://www.amazon.com/Data-Model-Patterns-Metadata-Management/dp/0120887983/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1PQPGE4E6T2RPR2XTN80
  [4]: http://www.amazon.com/Data-Model-Resource-Book-Vol/dp/0471380237/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=08T9TEZJNZM2EMKZV3AB
  [5]: http://www.amazon.com/Data-Model-Resource-Book-Vol/dp/0471353485/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1D5TDG7479G7TQMBPNWF
  [6]: http://www.amazon.com/Data-Model-Resource-Book-Vol/dp/0470178450/ref=pd_sim_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=08T9TEZJNZM2EMKZV3AB
  [7]: http://www.amazon.com/Patterns-Modeling-Emerging-Directions-Applications/dp/1439819890/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346950554&sr=1-1&keywords=patterns%20of%20data%20modeling
  [8]: http://www.amazon.com/Analysis-Patterns-Reusable-Object-Models/dp/0201895420/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346961699&sr=1-1&keywords=analysis+patterns
  [9]: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/search?q=data%20model
  [10]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Business_Language
  

From what I have heard, it's a multiple choice vocab type of test. I have also heard that you need to make sure you understand the ITIL definitions when it comes to things and not how maybe your company defines them.

I am currently using a few different resources to study. I am pretty sure I can sit for the exam at any time, but I haven't yet. The following are what I am using.

Cybrary.it
LiveLessons
ITIL Foundation Essentials
ITIL Foundation Exam Study Guide

I found both the Cybrary and the Sybex to be a little dry. Cybrary had a good overview for each topic, Live Lessons were pretty indepth. ITIL Foundation Essentials is no fluff. So it's pretty much "Here is what you will be tested on."

I've have also watched a few from CBTNuggets, but I do not have an account with them, and finding some updated CBTs on the high seas have been getting tougher.

I guess you've read the book 'How to Lie with Charts' and took it as a lesson plan?

https://www.amazon.com/How-Charts-Gerald-Everett-Jones/dp/1419651439

You're only choosing a median income of a wider Denver area which is different from focusing on downtown Denver that has people making half a million per year (and up) along with the breakdown I already addressed in my original post. It's also a very different dynamic from the Denver metro area.

LA County has 88 incorporated cities and many unincorporated areas and, at over 4000 square miles, it is larger than the combined areas of Delaware and Rhode Island. You have many of the literally 10 million occupants living far away from downtown LA in vastly higher concentrations than the Denver metro area.

The Denver metro area is only 2 million people with a vastly different geocentric dynamic. In other words, a lot more of the Denver metro area is empty. There are outskirts of Denver that don't have near the same dynamics, rent, wages, taxation or even cultural aspects as you get closer to the downtown area with its concentration of people and commerce. LA County, on the other hand, has 10 million people spread out in various concentrations (hence incorporated cities, etc.) all over the fringes.

The average pay for a cashier in Los Angeles, CA is hundreds of more dollars per month than a cashier in Denver, CO makes.

Why are you comparing that to people who live in a 12 mile area around the heart of Denver or even the entire Denver metro area which has areas with more wildlife than people within it?

Now, back to reality.

You pull up many same jobs, etc. in California cities that have similar or even lower rent prices as Denver you'll blatantly see the discrepancy in wages versus cost of rent.

Keep in mind Denver rents have increased dramatically in six straight months since January of this year. It's also extended to rent increases in Denver metro area so people are moving further and further to the outskirts.

I have a Bachelors in economics and applied for entry-level business/data analyst positions. Business analysis can be kind of broad, but is more operations-related. Some data analyst positions (and data scientist) ask for CS degrees, but others ask for business degrees.

Your experience seems in-line with these positions. Look up some job descriptions/titles that interest you (related positions I looked at included financial analyst, project analyst) and see what they ask for. I found these courses useful:

• Machine learning
  
  
• SQL
  
  
• Business analysis certificate course at a nearby university. Really great for me to learn different skills and use parts of my work as a portfolio. Glance through the BABOK and know the terminology.

I'm fooling around with sockets for the first time myself. It's pretty easy to Google and find some decent tutorials. The problem I've had is that those tutorials are fairly simple; they basically show you how to write a very simple server and a very simple client. If you're going to be using TCP, you're probably going to have to deal with TCP's stream nature either by specifying packet length or including a delimiter or something like that. You're probably going to want to encode your data. And you might need to get into threading or non-blocking.

At least those are the issues I am currently facing.

If you don't mind shelling out a few bucks, there's a nice little book about sockets called The Pocket Guide to TCP/IP Programming. Although the example sare in C, the concepts are explained pretty well, and once you get your head around the concepts, it's easier to Google for solutions in Python.

I am starting up TPV1 tonight, just knocked out BOV1 earlier today. This will be my last cert at WGU! I've seen the following book recommended, as it apparently reads much better than the official WGU text and still adequately prepares you for the exam.

IT Project Management: On Track from Start to Finish

The best part? It's available on Books24x7, which I'm trying to figure out how to get loaded up on my Nexus 7 to make for easy viewing.

I've recently been more or less tossed in this boat (my manager doesn't do IT anymore - a bit of a long store), and as a sysadmin I haven't really been too in touch with the business side [1].

If you have anyone who you can use a mentor, definitely take advantage of that. They don't necessarily have to be in IT in order to for their business view to be relevant.

A couple of books that I have picked up are: IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage and Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value.

Hope that helps.

[1] By business side I mean driving innovation and delivering value, not keeping business systems up and running.

Do good work. Impress the right people. Be noisy, but above that know your shit.

Produce work that is:

• Timely
  
• Reliable
  
• Easy for stakeholders to understand
  
  Read actual software development management books. Managing Humans and The Manager's Path are my top 2. An Elegant Puzzle is a good 50/50 blend of "managing ICs" and "managing managers" with sprinklings of TPM related topics.

Try /r/law perhaps. I'd certainly be wary of taking on a large amount of debt from a mediocre school. Then again, I'd be wary of that anyway. The difference is, if you went that route, and were somehow sure of a job, you still might find it eliminated by automation in 5-10 years.

Here's the most recent Susskind book on the topic. I didn't read this one. I read The End of Lawyers in 2010: http://www.amazon.com/Future-Professions-Technology-Transform-Experts/dp/0198713398/

This is a very interesting video on automation, from 2014, which touches on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

To some extent, these trends are happening across the board. For instance, in the LSAT world, there used to be a network of classroom courses all across the country. Instructors taught, rooms were rented, people distributed posters on campus and networked with prelaw societies.

That's vastly diminished. 7Sage was probably the single biggest factor. I've contributed with LSAT Hacks. /r/LSAT and TLS do their share. Effectively a large chunk of the LSAT industry got replaced with a few self-serve, automated resources that are run by a much smaller number of people.

In law you'll likewise probably see an elimination of many low level things. The remaining lawyers will focus on unique insight. Like in all professions, a large chunk of lawyers are not actually providing unique insight, and they'll be at risk. But that's going to be true across the board in all areas if current trends continue.

Which goes back to my original recommendation: don't take $200,000 in debt for a plan that might be wiped out by automation in short order.

EMC publish a book as part of their Certification program which is storage fundamentals which is quite good, most of it can be applied to really any vendor.

http://www.amazon.com/Information-Storage-Management-Virtualized-Environments/dp/1118094832/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398120942&sr=1-5&keywords=Storage+Foundations

I know its a foundations book, but I recommend reading it, I found it really helpful.

Used this textbook in an IT Management course this past fall. Was a pretty good resource.

Can be found online for free if you know where to look.

Application Security:

• The Art of Software Security Assessment
  
• A Bug Hunter's Diary
  
  Web Security:
  
  
• The Tangled Web
  
  Secure Systems
  
  
• A Guide to Kernel Exploitation
  
• Rootkits
  

First don't think of this as "DBA" stuff - you're a developer, you need to know database technology, period. Read this rant by Dennis Forbes in response to Digg's CTO's complaints about databases it's very reminiscent of TFA.

Read Data and Reality by the late William Kent (here's a free copy) and get a fundamental understanding of "information" vs. "data". Then read Information Modeling and Relational Databases to pickup a couple practical approaches to modeling (ER & OR). Now read The Datawarehouse Toolkit to learn dimensional modeling and when to use it. Practice designing effective models, build some production databases from scratch, inherit some, revisit your old designs, learn from your mistakes, write lots and lots and lots of SQL (if you want to get tricky with SQL I suggest to pickup Celko's SQL for smarties - it's like the Hacker's Delight for SQL).

Many strange models you may encounter in the wild are actually optimizations. Some are premature, some outright stupid, and some brilliant, if you want to be able to tell one from the other then you're going to dive deep into internals. Do this generically with Modern Information Retrieval and Managing Gigabytes then for specific RDBMSs Pro SQL Server Internals, PostgreSQL Internals, Oracle CORE, etc.

Reflect on how awesome practically every modern RDBMS is as a great technological achievement for mankind and how wonderful it is to be standing on the shoulders of giants. Roll your eyes a little bit whenever you overhear another twenty-something millenial fresh CS graduate who skipped every RDBMS elective bleat about NoSQL, Mongo, whatever. Try not to fly into murderous rage when another loud-mouthed know-nothing writes at length about how bad RDBMS technology is when they couldn't be bothered to learn the most basic requisite skills and knowledge to use one competently.

this book:
http://www.amazon.com/IT-Project-Management-Finish-Edition/dp/0071700439

which was very good for teaching the soft stuff and a general outline,

and u certify (provided by my school) which did a better job of outlining the framework of project management (process groups and the inputs and outputs to processes) though it wasn't perfect for this task. It also provided questions, LOTS of questions (which were good for learning) and the ucertify final practice test (300 questions, plus a 100q post review) were VERY similar to the actual exam.... eerily similar at times.

The ucertify course is a condensed version of "Heldman, K & Heldman, W. (2010). CompTIA Project+ Study Guide (Exam PK0-003). Sybex. ISBN: 9780470585924."

But I don't know if that text includes the questions or not.

Not an endorsement of this specific book, but you might consider something like this:

IT Manager's Handbook, Third Edition: Getting your New Job Done

or

It's OK to Be the Boss: The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming the Manager Your Employees Need

Definitely. We actually used that book for my Business Intelligence masters course in my MIS program. I met a BI manager hiring for a data engineering role and she recommended the following text as well. The content was pretty similar as they focus on the Kimball method but goes over BEAM*, which is a requirements gathering framework for designing data warehouses.

https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Data-Warehouse-Design-Collaborative/dp/0956817203/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511661160&sr=1-1&keywords=agile+data+warehouse+design

Data Engineering is different everywhere and task dependent. The best advice I can give is have SQL be your second language. Then depending on your role or daily tasks you would be looking at extra materials.

General Insightful Reads:

• Designing Data Intensive Applications
  
  
• The Data Model Resource Book Series

Hi - I have a MAC so the process is not working correctly for me. If you are still doing this, can you please de-DRM this book for me? It would be a huge life saver! - http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Using-Information-System-Pearlson/dp/111828173X

For data modeling, I prefer Object Role Modeling (ORM2) over UML. It gives you a conceptual model (ideas and relationships) rather than a logical model (tables and columns), which ends up being more semantically stable as you refine your domain.

The cool thing is that you can generate a 5th Normal Form logical model from it algorithmically. The NORMA tool for Visual Studio can even generate the Barker ER diagram for those who prefer that view.

Full disclosure: I'm a fanatic of ORM2 and have started blogging about fact modeling in my copious spare time.

EDIT: The definitive work on ORM2 is Terry Halpin's book

You buy me whisky?

Where I work, Expedia, we do the occasional meetup, like speed dating, where we attempt to match mentors and mentees.

But, for homework, read these books.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01J53IE1O/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06XP3GJ7F/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Got-Here-Wont-There-ebook/dp/B0041G68WS/

In all seriousness, unlikely I can help out directly, I've got 4 peeps I'm mentoring at the moment, (2 internal to my company, 2 external)

> See above - you're still misunderstanding how the field of law works.

Well I'm from the UK and here (and I would guess in most places other than the US) a law degree does not in any way instantly qualify you to be what you refer to as an attorney, and a large percentage of law graduates go into other legal and compliance jobs. There are far more law graduates than there are solicitor / barrister training positions, so naturally a lot of law graduates end up as paralegals, legal support staff, patent clerks, notaries, claims handlers, etc.

> How is the software going to understand where the line is drawn where you can make the determination to ignore the SEC and move forward anyway?

Rather than asking a stranger to talk you through a specific example, I'd recommend doing your own research. Perhaps then you could write a rebuttal article to the ignorant people at The Financial Times, McKinsey, Deloitte, JPMorgan, Oxford University, etc.

This is a fantastic book which deconstructs the whole "IT doesn't add value" argument. Basically, the authors advocate the use of "before and after" type metrics for demonstrating the efficiencies which IT can bring to a business problem.

https://www.amazon.com/Real-Business-Create-Communicate-Value/dp/1422147614/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525428911&sr=8-1&keywords=business+value+it

Is this for fun or profit?

If it's for fun, and you're on a LAN, you can trivially send short strings over UDP with a few lines of code in basically any language. E.g. https://wiki.python.org/moin/UdpCommunication If you're on ye olde internets you can still use UDP unless one of you is firewalled then you need TCP which is a bit harder to use but still doable.

If this is for profit, stop, don't do it. Yes, we use sockets for this sort of thing, but if you have no experience programming low level sockets I will highly discourage you from attempting to write any production code using low level sockets. You will most likely make yourself and other people sad over myriad subtle intermittent bugs related to framing, flushing, timing, errors, etc. I've seen it happen. It's easy to fuck up and hard to get right even for pros and there's really no good justification for it anymore because we already have such great protocols and libraries. Even if you have the skill to do it it's probably a waste of time.

Instead I would highly recommend you use an established protocol and library. I would suggest http, amqp, or zeromq. They are battle tested dinosaurs that abstract away all the gory details of sockets and are all super easy to use in Python or PHP and have large established ecosystems of implementations, tools and documentation. You could write a little server in Python using Flask and the PHP clients can connect to it and send strings (or JSON or whatever). They all use sockets under the hood of course but you don't have to think about it how it works which is sort of the whole point of software reuse.

If you want to learn low level sockets I strongly recommend https://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Socket-Programming-Kaufmann-Networking/dp/1558606866 it's written for C but the low level python socket libs are pretty similar; they're mostly just wrapping the C api.

If you want the smallest, most condensed material necessary to pass the exam, then Claire Agutter's book is what you want.

https://www.amazon.com/ITIL-Foundation-Essentials-Exam-Facts/dp/1849283990/

If you want to really develop an understanding of ITIL, or intend to proceed to more advanced ITIL certifications, then you probably want something more in-depth.

Here is a good book that explains basic storage concepts. It covers EMC's Information Storage and Management exam however it is largely hardware agnostic.

IT Manager's Handbook is good start.

On big IS projects staffing looks roughly like this:
sponsor > project manager > subject matter expert > business analyst > system analyst > system/data architects > developer.

Business analysts have their own industry organization (IIBA) and their own body of knowledge (BABOK).

I recommend IT Manager's Handbook: Getting Your New Job Done. It has a lot of recommendations that are specific to IT

Looks like someone is the master of this book: How To Lie With Charts: Second Edition

Best book I read all year: A Guide to Kernel Hacking: Attacking the Core

Non-stupid Amazon link

http://www.amazon.com/Information-Storage-Management-Virtualized-Environments/dp/1118094832

Is this the one you mean? https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Data-Warehouse-Design-Collaborative/dp/0956817203

is this the one?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scrum-Pocket-Companion-Practice-Publishing/dp/9087537204/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504106318&sr=8-1&keywords=the+scrum+guide

Take a look at:

https://www.amazon.com/Data-Model-Resource-Book-Vol/dp/0471380237

Maybe it's similar to what you're looking for? It's a bit old, though

It's literally happening right now.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Future-Professions-Technology-Transform-Experts/dp/0198713398

I am working on projects using Blue Prism robots to replace 400 middle class workers.

http://www.amazon.com/Information-Storage-Management-Virtualized-Environments/dp/1118094832/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417044845&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=information+systems+management+emc+v2

It's from emc but it is a good general book/reference guide touching a lot of the concepts in block and file storage systems.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Agile-Data-Warehouse-Design-Collaborative/dp/0956817203

https://www.amazon.com/Real-Business-Create-Communicate-Value/dp/1422147614

Gerald Everett Jones

How To Lie With Charts


https://www.amazon.com/How-Charts-Gerald-Everett-Jones/dp/1419651439

EMC's Information Storage and Management: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1118094832/ref=pd_aw_sims_1?pi=SL500_SY115&simLd=1

http://brasstacksblog.typepad.com/brass-tacks/2011/02/new-emc-techbooks-are-available.html

And

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1118094832

Dell EMC has not updated the textbook for that exam. I took and passed the V2 of that exam using the V2 textbook, had everything I needed. V3 which I looked over the objectives is different enough, that I don't feel comfortable trying it without an updated textbook. Link to V2 textbook