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How far do you want to take your career?

Through HP, you have access to a wide range of certifications based on industry standards, and built on general industry certifications, like Microsoft and Linux. In addition, HP certifications are consistent around the globe, which means the credentials you earn within each certification will be valued no matter where your work takes you.

The HP Certified Professional Program is organized by job roles (or "focus areas"). Within each of these job roles there are certification levels. (For example, within the Systems Integration job role there are three different certification levels: MASE, ASE and AIS.) Within each certification level, you'll find a wide selection of credentials to choose from.

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Click on one of our six different job roles to learn more:
» Sales » Presales » Systems Integration
» Systems Administration » Systems Development » Hardware support

Sales
HP sales credentials provide sales professionals the tools needed to effectively analyze customer business requirements and to successfully position and sell the full HP solutions portfolio.
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.
  • Ideal candidate: Account-aligned sales generalist
  • Prerequisite: None
  • Next level of certification: HP Accredited Sales Consultant
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.
  • Ideal candidate: Technology or market-aligned sales specialist
  • Prerequisite: Accredited Sales Professional certification
  • Next level of certification: None

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Presales
HP presales credentials equip technical IT professionals with the skills necessary to effectively analyze customer business requirements and plan and design an HP solution, including application, platform, operating system, storage and networking, and so on.
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.
  • Ideal candidate: Account-aligned technology generalist
  • Prerequisite: None
  • Next level of certification: HP Accredited Presales Consultant
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).
  • Ideal candidate: Technology-aligned specialist
  • Prerequisite: Accredited Presales Professional certification
  • Next level of certification: None

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Systems Integration
HP systems integration credentials provide technical IT professionals with the skills needed to design, implement, configure, integrate and support HP solutions given a set of customer business requirements.
HP Accredited Integration Specialist HP Accredited Integration Specialist
Given a set of customer business requirements, this individual is required to design, support and / or implement a business class solution (potentially including platform, operating system, software, storage, network and option components) to solve business needs.
  • Ideal candidate: Anyone who deploys business class IT solutions
  • Prerequisite: Potentially an HP Certified Systems Administrator certification or a third party Operating System exam and/or certification
  • Next level of certification: HP Accredited Systems Engineer
HP Accredited Systems Engineer HP Accredited Systems Engineer
Given a set of customer business requirements, this individual is required to design, support and / or implement an enterprise level solution (potentially including platform, operating system, software, storage, network and option components) to solve business needs.
  • Ideal candidate: Anyone who deploys complex enterprise IT solutions
  • Prerequisite: In most cases, Accredited Integration Specialist certification AND potentially an HP Certified Systems Engineer certification or a third party Operating System certification
  • Next level of certification: HP Master Accredited Systems Engineer
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.
  • Ideal candidate: The flagship level - Anyone who deploys complex IT solutions
  • Prerequisite: In most cases, Accredited Systems Engineer certification and potentially a third party solution certification
  • Next level of certification: None

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Systems Administration
HP credentials in this group offer IT professionals the setup, administration and management skills required to effectively configure and support an IT environment.
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.
  • Ideal candidate: An individual who performs hands-on installation, configuration, administration and support of a networked environment
  • Prerequisite: None
  • Next level of certification: HP Certified Systems Engineer
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.
  • Ideal candidate: An individual whose primary job roles are to perform hands-on installation and manage performance optimization in complex, enterprise environments
  • Prerequisite: Certified System Administrator certification
  • Next level of certification: HP Accredited Systems Engineer

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Systems Development
HP systems development credentials provide software developers the skills and knowledge needed to design, implement, test, and maintain HP software products.
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.
  • Ideal candidate: Coder of software solutions
  • Prerequisite: None
  • Next level of certification: None

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Hardware Support
HP hardware support credentials equip an individual to provide basic hardware support for commercial / business class HP products.
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.
  • Ideal candidate: Anyone who provides hardware maintenance and support of HP products
  • Prerequisite: Potentially a third party industry standard certification
  • Next level of certification: None

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