HP Accredited Technical Associate (ATA) certifications.

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In today's environment, businesses expect IT to help them stay abreast of growth and increasing customer demands. However, there is a shortage of expertise to help them leverage IT to create meaningful business results. Companies need IT expertise to translate their business objectives into technology strategies and create end-to-end solutions that help them reach more customers, run more effectively, and grow.

The HP ExpertONE program was created to develop the precise skills businesses need to spur innovation. Through HP Institute program, HP and its education partners deliver this customer-demanded training in an academic format. HP Institute helps us provide HP customers and partners continuous access to talent pools of graduates with the practical skills to help their businesses succeed.

The first learning solution available to HP Institute education partners is the HP Accredited Technical Associate (HP ATA) program. HP ATA certification delivers the industry's first architect-level certification designed from the ground up for delivery in an academic format. It develops and validates real-world skills and prepares students for employment in small and medium business environments. The HP ATA certification provides a complete learning solution—including courseware, hands-on labs, practice tests, and certification exams—that goes well beyond simple concepts and product knowledge. HP ATA provides education and certification for each of these essential IT segments:

  • Connected Device Solutions
  • Network Solutions
  • Server and Storage Solutions
  • Cloud Solutions

HP has partnered with Certiport, the global leader in academic certification, to distribute this program. The HP ATA certifications are available through Certiport authorized testing centers.

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Benefits

  • Benefit for Students: Through HP Institute, HP and its education partners help students gain higher job and earning potential through industry recognized certification and high quality education that provides practical experience with HP and industry standard technologies.
  • Benefit for Academic Institutions and Educators: Through HP Institute, HP makes it easy for institutions to build, deliver and differentiate their technology education offerings through a simple, convenient and affordable suite of technology certifications and learning solutions. HP certifications provide relevant and practical skills that employers are looking for. By providing HP certification, academic institutions can differentiate their degree programs to potential employers by providing graduates that have the skills to be productive day one on the job.
  • Benefit for HP Customers and Partners: Working with education enables HP to ensure continuous availability of talent that has precisely the skill and expertise that IT and business leaders need to achieve their business objectives.

HP ATA - Connected Devices

Students will learn industry-standard client technologies, including the planning and designing of common desktop virtualization, mobile computing, traditional PCs, thin clients, and cloud infrastructures for small and medium businesses. Students will also learn how to install, configure, and upgrade client solutions. They will also troubleshoot and perform repair and replacement procedures for client solutions using the HP 6-step troubleshooting methodology. In addition to performing version control, backups and maintenance tasks, they will also explore the impact of client technologies on customer needs.

HP ATA - Networks

Students will learn how to explain and recognize networking technologies such as data link protocols, physical connections, layer 3 routing, upper layer protocols and applications, and multicast technology for small and medium businesses. Students will also learn how to plan and design wired and wireless network solutions and how to install, configure, initiate, and upgrade networks. They will learn to optimize wireless, switched, and routed network infrastructures. In addition to troubleshooting those infrastructures, they will perform administrative, operational, and network management. They will also learn the implications of these technologies on customer needs.

HP ATA - Servers and Storage

Students will learn to describe server applications and functionality, common industry x86 and 64-bit operating systems and solution stacks, OS architecture and data center components for small and medium businesses. Students will describe HP and industry-standard servers, health and fault management tools, rack series, power protection and management, and storage options. They will also describe standard HP and other standard management solutions for Windows and Linux on x86 and 64-bit systems. They will also plan, design, and install server and storage solutions, including the operating system and the management software. They will tune and optimize server and storage solutions, plus troubleshoot and repair these systems using the HP 6-step troubleshooting methodology.

HP ATA - Cloud

Students will learn how to explain and recognize industry-standard cloud and virtualization technologies for small and medium businesses. They will learn the common virtualization and cloud services, including their benefits and their implications on customer needs. They will also plan and design end-to-end IT solutions, including the process of gathering business objectives, plus they will create technology strategies for on-premises, hosted, and cloud solutions. Students will learn how to support disaster recovery plans and propose solutions to decision makers. And finally, students will install, configure, and upgrade servers, storage, data, networks, clients, applications, and users in new and existing environments.