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The HP Certified Professional Program provides IT professionals with the business and technical skills needed to support multi-vendor, mission critical IT environments.

The program has a comprehensive development structure that includes five focus areas of expertise. They are: sales, presales, integration, administration and developer. Within each focus area there are levels of certification. Examples of certification levels include Accredited Sales Consultant and Master ASE, plus many others. The program has an extensive portfolio of credentials to chose from (credentials are listed within certification level).

HP Certified Professional Certifications

» Sales » Presales » Integration » Administration » Developer

Sales

HP sales certifications are designed to ensure sales professionals can effectively anticipate a customer's business needs and provide the very best HP solution.
HP Accredited Sales Consultant » HP Accredited Sales Consultant
Requires an individual to gather customer business requirements and successfully position and sell HP enterprise products and services in an engagement with a customer.

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  • Ideal candidate: Technology or market-aligned sales specialist who sells solutions based on HP technologies for their customers
  • Prerequisite: Accredited Sales Professional certification
HP Accredited Sales Professional » HP Accredited Sales Professional
Requires an individual to gather customer business requirements, recognize the opportunities, and make recommendations from the HP solutions portfolio that would solve business needs.

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  • Ideal candidate: Account-aligned sales generalist who sells solutions based on HP technologies to their customers
  • Prerequisite: None

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Presales

HP presales certifications equip technical IT professionals with the breadth of skills necessary to effectively plan and design HP based solutions for customers.
HP Accredited Presales Consultant » HP Accredited Presales Consultant
Requires an individual to gather customer business requirements, then plan and design an enterprise solution within a specialty area (e.g. XP Storage, Superdome).

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  • Ideal candidate: Technology-aligned specialist who plans and designs solutions based on HP technologies for their customers
  • Prerequisite: Accredited Presales Professional certification
HP Accredited Presales Professional » HP Accredited Presales Professional
Requires an individual to gather customer business requirements, recognize opportunities and make recommendations for a solution (potentially including application, platform, operating system, storage, network and option components) that will solve business needs.

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  • Ideal candidate: Account-aligned technology generalist who plans and designs solutions based on HP technologies for their customers
  • Prerequisite: None

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Integration

HP integration certifications equip technical IT professionals with the depth of skills needed in the design, implementation and support of HP solutions.
HP Master Accredited Systems Engineer » HP Master Accredited Systems Engineer
The flagship credential available from HP, the Master ASE requires an individual to gather customer business requirements, and design, integrate and support a full solution including application, middleware, platform, operating system, storage, network and option components.

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  • Ideal candidate: Anyone who deploys complex solutions based on HP technologies
  • Prerequisite: Accredited Systems Engineer certification and potentially a third party solution certification
HP Accredited Systems Engineer » HP Accredited Systems Engineer
Given a set of customer business requirements, this individual is required to design, support and integrate an enterprise level solution (potentially including platform, operating system, storage, network and option components) to solve business needs.

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  • Ideal candidate: Anyone who deploys complex, enterprise solutions based on HP technologies
  • Prerequisite: Accredited Integration Specialist certification AND potentially an HP Certified Systems Engineer certification or a third party Operating System certification
HP Accredited Integration Specialist » HP Accredited Integration Specialist
Given a set of customer business requirements, this individual is required to design, support and integrate a business class solution (potentially including platform, operating system, storage, network and option components) to solve business needs.

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  • Ideal candidate: Anyone who deploys business class solutions based on HP technologies
  • Prerequisite: Potentially an HP Certified Systems Administrator certification or a third party Operating System exam and/or certification
HP Accredited Platform Specialist » HP Accredited Platform Specialist
This individual is required to provide basic hardware support for the purpose of restoring consumer and business class hardware to factory operational levels.

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  • Ideal candidate: Anyone who provides hardware maintenance and support on HP products
  • Prerequisite: Potentially a third party industry standard certification

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Administration

HP administration certifications provide IT professionals with setup, administration and management skills they need to effectively maintain and manage HP Operating Systems and other solutions.
HP Certified Systems Engineer » HP Certified Systems Engineer
This individual is required to provide hands-on installation, performance optimization, management and support of HP Solutions and/or Operating Systems in complex, enterprise environments.

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  • Ideal candidate: Anyone who deploys or manages HP Solutions and/or HP Operating Systems in enterprise class environments
  • Prerequisite: Certified System Administrator certification
HP Certified Systems Administrator » HP Certified Systems Administrator
This level of certification requires an individual to perform hands-on installation, configuration, administration and support of HP Solutions and/or HP Operating Systems in networked environments.

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  • Ideal candidate: Anyone who deploys or manages HP Solutions or HP Operating Systems
  • Prerequisite: None

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Developer

HP developer certifications provide software developers with the skills and knowledge they need to develop software solutions based on HP technologies.
HP Certified Systems Developer » HP Certified Systems Developer
Given a set of customer business requirements, this individual is required to design, implement, test, and maintain software which meet the business need.

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  • Ideal candidate: Anyone who codes software solutions based on HP technologies
  • Prerequisite: None

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