Enter to win a Microsoft training course worth $2,995

Network World welcomes Global Knowledge Training as a contributor to Microsoft Subnet. Global Knowledge is offering a free Microsoft training course worth up to $2,995 to be given to one lucky Microsoft Subnet reader. What's more, the winning reader can choose any five-day (or shorter) Microsoft course in the United States from the Global Knowledge catalog. Training is offered in hundreds of U.S. cities.

Global Knowledge offers one of the largest networks of Microsoft certified training partners in the world. Every course follows the Microsoft Official Curriculum and is taught by a Microsoft Certified Trainer. This competition closes October 31, 2009, so don't delay, answer the easy trivia question below and enter for a chance to win a free Microsoft training course.

How to enter to win: Answer the above trivia question correctly and e-mail your answer to Julie Bort at jbort@nww.com by October 31, 2009 and your entry will be entered into a drawing to win a free Global Knowledge Training training course of your choosing, of a duration of five days or less. In the e-mail, please include the answer to the question above, your name, your job title, your U.S. address, and your daytime telephone number. Please write: "GK Microsoft October competition" in the subject of your e-mail. Full competition rules below.

QUESTION TO ENTER TO WIN A FREE TRAINING COURSE FROM GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE: According to the blog post by Global Knowledge trainer Glenn Weadock on September 30, what is the term for "a network interface mode in which the NIC reports every packet that it sees"? (Hint: answer can be found in the third paragraph and also somewhere on the Microsoft Subnet home page.)

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Network World welcomes Global Knowledge Training as a contributor to Microsoft Subnet. Global Knowledge is offering a free Microsoft training course worth up to $2,995 to be given to one lucky Microsoft Subnet reader. What's more, the winning reader can choose any five-day (or shorter) Microsoft course in the United States from the Global Knowledge catalog. Training is offered in hundreds of U.S. cities.

Global Knowledge offers one of the largest networks of Microsoft certified training partners in the world. Every course follows the Microsoft Official Curriculum and is taught by a Microsoft Certified Trainer. This competition closes October 31, 2009, so don't delay, answer the easy trivia question below and enter for a chance to win a free Microsoft training course.

How to enter to win: Answer the above trivia question correctly and e-mail your answer to Julie Bort at jbort@nww.com by October 31, 2009 and your entry will be entered into a drawing to win a free Global Knowledge Training training course of your choosing, of a duration of five days or less. In the e-mail, please include the answer to the question above, your name, your job title, your U.S. address, and your daytime telephone number. Please write: "GK Microsoft October competition" in the subject of your e-mail. Full competition rules below.

QUESTION TO ENTER TO WIN A FREE TRAINING COURSE FROM GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE: According to the blog post by Global Knowledge trainer Glenn Weadock on September 30, what is the term for "a network interface mode in which the NIC reports every packet that it sees"? (Hint: answer can be found in the third paragraph and also somewhere on the Microsoft Subnet home page.)

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Competition rules:

1. No purchase necessary. All entrants must be 18 years of age. This offer is void where prohibited or restricted by law, and subject to all federal, state and local laws and regulations.

2. Network World, Inc., will begin accepting e-mail entries on the date that Microsoft Subnet makes the trivia question available. One entry per individual.

3. To enter by e-mail, participants must respond to the Global Knowledge competition by midnight, October 31, 2009 (PT).  No entries will be acknowledged or returned, and all entries become the property of Network World. Network World is not responsible for lost, late, illegible, incomplete or misdirected entries. All such entries will be disqualified.

4. The Global Knowledge training giveaway closes at midnight, October 31, 2009 (PT). One winner will be picked at random from the entries with the correct answers. The winners will be notified after the close of the competition at a date determined by Network World. All winners notified must RSVP by the date indicated in the e-mail sent by Network World. Failure to do so will result in forfeiture of the Prize. Answer to the trivia question will be published on Microsoft Subnet, along with the name of the winner. The winner must register for the course within 90 days of receiving the notification e-mail.