Accredited Platform Specialist (APS)

HP APS Description:
The Accredited Platform Specialist (APS) certification from HP Certification was established in 2001 and is aimed at students who are currently employed in the Enterprise Network environments, or those who want to find employment in those environments, and want to obtain the Accredited Platform Specialist (APS) certification.

The Accredited Platform Specialist certification certifies that a successful Accredited Platform Specialist has learnt the knowledge need to remedial maintenance for the purpose of restoring consumer and business class hardware to operational levels. The successful Accredited Platform Specialist certified student will have knowledge of the design, support and integrate platform, operating system, storage, network and option components to solve business needs and hands-on planning and the integration and support of technical solutions in business class, networked environments These are all fields in the Enterprise Network environments.

HP APS Prerequisites:
The Accredited Platform Specialist certification is only available to students who have 6 to 12 months experience design, support and integrate platform, operating system, storage, network and option components to solve business needs.

HP APS Required Exams:
You need to do the HP exam(s) required to earn AIS certification. Because there are different tracks in the certification, there can be different exams for the different tracks. For example:

The exam that is required is the APS - HP Commercial Desktops, Workstations and Notebooks track is the HP HP2-896 Servicing HP Desktops, Workstations and Notebooks exam.

The exam that is required is the APS - HP Smart Desktop Service [2005] track is the HP HP2-033 Supporting HP Smart Desktop Service exam.

The exam that is required is the APS - ProCurve Networking [2004] track is the HP HP2-964 Installation and Service of HP ProCurve Devices exam.
This exam is available in English only.

HP APS Recertification:
A successful Accredited Platform Specialist student will hold the Accredited Platform Specialist certification for indefinitely.

HP APS Preparing for the Certificate:
There are plenty of Accredited Platform Specialist study materials available on the Internet. These range from the official HP Certification Training courses and official HP Self Study Training Guides from HP Press, to the Testking APS practice exams and Testking APS study guides. Online practice exams and HP APS braindumps are also available online.

HP APS More Information:
You can find more information about the Accredited Platform Specialist certification on the internet on websites like at www.testking.com, www.certifyexpress.com and at www.HP.com itself.