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March 2005
Volume 5, Number 03
 

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Program information

 

Coming in September: Your annual certification event, HP Technology Forum
Plans are underway to provide our HP Certified Professionals with a great technical event, so make your plans to attend the HP Technology Forum, September 12- 15, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
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Join the global Job Task Analysis project for network storage solutions
HP is seeking Subject Matter Experts to participate in a global Job Task Analysis (JTA) for developing technical presales and post sales training and certification exams for partners, employees and customers who sell and support network storage solutions.
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Are you using the HP Certified Professional Connection portal?
This is the one place where you can find all kinds of HP technical and sales information. The content of the portal is designed to give you, the Certified Professional, the information that you need, when you need it -- information such as new HP products introduction training, web-based training opportunities, special tools and utilities, competitive marketing information and performance briefs.
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Migration extension granted to Master ASEs
Master ASEs from the Compaq certification program now have until July 31, 2005 to complete the premerger migration requirements communicated in February 2003.
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Migration Reminders
Many HP Certified Professionals still have migration requirements to complete as a result of the merger of HP and Compaq certification programs.
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Continuing Certification Requirements (CCRs)
A number of credentials have CCRs that are due to be completed soon. All CCR information is listed on our website at: www.hp.com/go/certification/americas.
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Credential retirements
The Americas HP Certified Professional Program Office has announced several credential retirements.

» Get a list of all credential retirements

Welcome new HP Certified Professionals!
More than 280 people joined the HP Certified Professional community in the Americas last month.

» View the list of new members in our program

Network World newsletter article discusses the future of HP storage solutions
Mike Karp is senior analyst with Enterprise Management Associates, focusing on storage, storage management and the methodology that brings these issues into the marketplace. Karp recently published a newsletter article on Network World Fusion that gives his opinion of the future of HP storage solutions.
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Events and user groups

 

HP Software Forum - the place to be this June for OpenView and related management software training and networking
Don't miss North America's most comprehensive HP OpenView user group event at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado, June 6-10, 2005. This technical education and networking conference features a collaborative learning environment where developers, executives, technicians other OpenView users convene to share inside industry knowledge, and gain tips and techniques to make their OpenView applications and implementations more effective.
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Education and training

 

New free product training webinars from ProCurve Networking by HP
Two new product training webinars are now available from ProCurve Networking by HP. These webinars are a great free, low/no pressure way to learn about recently introduced ProCurve products.
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Beta tests and certification exams

 

NonStop Systems Certification needs beta test volunteers
HP NonStop Certification has three beta exams that need to go "live":

  • HP1 - 764 HP NonStop Guardian Architecture
  • HP1 - 768 HP NonStop Transaction Management Facility (TMF)
  • HP1 - 780 HP NonStop SQL/MP

We are looking for approximately 50 people per exam to close out these three beta tests to convert them to the live format.
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New certification cut score methodology
The HP Certified Professional program will officially discontinue all future beta exams for the NonStop Systems certifications. Yes, you read that correctly: we will no longer use beta exams as a method to release new exams for NonStop Systems certifications only.
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Exam news for HP NonStop Certified Systems Developer candidates
Beginning in March, you can take the HP0-787 Advanced Application Development Exam and get your test score immediately.
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Exam additions and retirements as of March 2005
We've made quite a few exam additions and retired many certification exams just recently. See how this may affect your certification path.

» View new exams list
» View retiring exams list

See the list of all active beta exams
Get the comprehensive list of beta exams available in the HP Certified Professional Program here.

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Helpful documentation in the Certified Professional Connection

 

What's new in the Certified Professional Connection portal
The list below reflects just a few of the hundreds of sales and technical articles you'll find in the Certified Professional Connection portal.
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Your Americas team

 

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