HP Accredited Technical Associate (ATA®) — Cloud

You'll learn industry-standard virtualisation technologies, including the planning and designing of common virtualised services and their implications for customer needs.

Get your HP Accredited Technical Associate - Cloud certification in just four days and learn how to design, implement, and support end-to-end IT systems.

You'll also learn about the following:

• Installing, configuring, and upgrading servers, storage, data networks and applications in business environments
• Differences between hosted, co-located and cloud networks, and a traditional on-premises network
• Business implications and selection criteria of appropriate responses to a given business scenario

Explain and recognise industry-standard cloud and virtualisation technologies and their implications for customer needs

• Describe and recognise common virtualisation technologies and products and their implications for customer needs
• Describe the business benefits of Virtualisation
• Define cloud and identify and describe various types of cloud services and their implications for customer needs
• Describe the business benefits and risks of using cloud services

Plan and design end-to-end IT solutions for SMB customers

• Consult with an SMB customer to translate their business objectives into an enabling technology strategy
• Gather the customer’s technical requirements and assess existing infrastructure
• Design an end-to-end technical solution for an SMB customer, including on-premises, hosted, and cloud solution components
• Design online presence and hosted services solution elements (incorporating both onsite and cloud components as appropriate)
• Design an end-to-end solution for support/disaster recovery for an SMB customer
• Write and present a solution proposal to the customer decision-makers

Install, configure, and upgrade end-to-end IT solutions for SMB customers

• Implement changes to the existing infrastructure to support solution—including servers, storage, data, network, clients, applications, and users (scenarios in teaching and testing)

Optimise and troubleshoot end-to-end IT solutions for SMB customers

• Apply the HP troubleshooting methodology in an end-to-end solution environment
• Troubleshoot common issues in end-to-end solutions for SMB customers
• Optimise common performance issues in end-to-end solutions for SMB customers

Administer and manage end-to-end IT solutions for SMB customers

• Add users, groups, and profiles on cloud services in addition to local infrastructure

We’ll prepare you for, and test you in, the following exam:

• Exam HP4-A04 - HP Accredited Technical Associate (ATA) – Cloud

Included:

• HP official course material including practice exam.

To ensure that you pass your exam and become an HP Accredited Technical Associate you should have a CompTIA A+ or a Microsoft MTA Certification and between 18-24 months experience with HP kit.

Seven reasons why you should sit your course with Firebrand Training

• Two options of training. Choose between residential classroom-based, or online courses
• You'll be certified fast. With us, you’ll be trained in record time
• Our course is all-inclusive. A one-off fee covers all course materials, exams**, accommodation* and meals*. No hidden extras.
• Pass the first time or train again for free. This is our guarantee. We’re confident you’ll pass your course the first time. But if not, come back within a year and only pay for accommodation, exams and incidental costs
• You’ll learn more. A day with a traditional training provider generally runs from 9 am – 5 pm, with a nice long break for lunch. With Firebrand Training you’ll get at least 12 hours/day of quality learning time, with your instructor
• You’ll learn faster. Chances are, you’ll have a different learning style to those around you. We combine visual, auditory and tactile styles to deliver the material in a way that ensures you will learn faster and more easily
• You’ll be studying with the best. We’ve been named in the Training Industry’s “Top 20 IT Training Companies of the Year” every year since 2010. As well as winning many more awards, we’ve trained and certified over 135,000 professionals

*For residential training only. Doesn't apply for online courses
**Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts

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