HP ATA - Connected Devices V1 certification is offered by the HP Company (Hewlett-Packard Development Company). This professional certification validates the knowledge and expertise of in defining the business objectives of the customers and designing, implementing, and supporting the IT solutions in SMB (small to medium level businesses). This certification also verifies the proficiencies of the professionals in installation, configuration, and up gradation of the client solutions through troubleshooting, perform repairing & effective replacement procedures.

HP ATA - Connected Devices V1 is an associate-level certification. This certification has been designed for the typical candidates who are technical specialists and involve in the industry standard client-based IT technologies, which are appropriate for the current SMB (small-medium level business) environment. In general, this certification targets the potential candidates including the students, who are interested in executing diverse IT roles, such as, systems engineer, desktop support officer, solution architect for connected devices, helpdesk support officer, engineer for technical support, client-serving systems administrator, etc.

Benefits of earning HP ATA - Connected Devices V1 certification include:

• To get expertise on planning and designing the cloud infrastructures, general desktop virtualization, thin clients, mobile computing, conventional PCs, etc.
• To boost up the career prospective by executing version control, maintenance, backups tasks, etc.
• To learn helpful technical expertise and the appropriate business context.
• To achieve hands-on experience using HP products & industry standard modern technologies.
• To upgrade career status.

The process of acquiring HP ATA - Connected Devices V1 certification is as follows:

• At the initial level a candidate needs to make a 'learner ID' and a profile in the learning Center of HP Company website and Pearson VUE site respectively. At next the whole process of certification might be divided into four steps.
• 1st step
  If the candidate has achieved any previous certification from a list provided by HP, then HP offers him/her a scope of achieving 'HP ATA - Connected Devices V1' through a facility called 'upgrade path'. Currently, this certification is offering no 'upgrade path' facility.
• 2nd step
  In this step the candidate needs to register for this certification in the Learning Center of HP.
• 3rd step
  In this step the candidate needs to fulfill the required prerequisites. Currently, this certification is requiring no pre-requisites.
• 4th step
  This is the key step of the certification process. Here a candidate needs to take the required core exams.

The first core requirement is to pass the exam HP4-A01 (Designing and Deploying Connected Device Solutions). The exam duration is 60 minutes. And the question type is multiple-choice question-answers.

This exam validates the knowledge of a candidate on the contents that are included by the HP ILT course titled 'Designing and Deploying Connected Device Solutions' under course ID #00421698. This training has been recommended for each candidate. It focuses on the industry-standard & client serving technologies along with their relevant implications on the customer requirements. This topics, further includes the general technologies & products used for desktop virtualization; technologies for mobile computing & their relevant implications on the particular customer requirements; technologies for conventional PC and their relevant implications on the customer requirements; thin client-based technology & solutions; cloud technology application to meet up client solutions, etc. This course also instructs about planning and designing techniques of the client solutions targeting the SMB customers. This topic also includes issues like, consulting SMB customers to evaluate their business & technical requirements & create client solution-plans; designing the client solutions to meet the customer requirements defined in the development stage. Moreover, the candidates will learn about the installation, configuration, and up gradation of the client-based solutions for the SMB customers. This topic also emphasizes on issues, like, pre-installation checklist; configuration of the management tools & resources; set up procedure of PC (hardware), OS, mobile device, thin client, etc. Furthermore, candidates will learn about the 6-step troubleshooting method of HP; troubleshooting and repairing procedures to apply in client solutions for the SMB customers; performance management & version control issues, etc.

At the end of this roadmap a candidate will get an email within 5 days after completion of all requirements that will change his/her status to "acquired" in the HP Learning Center, Certiport & HP portals.