HP Accredited System Engineer (ASE) - Advanced server Administrator V8 Certification is an Expert level certification, specially designed for Advanced Technical Professionals who can perform functions like planning, installing, configuring and troubleshooting in a sever deployed environment. This certification helps the candidate to enhance his career advancement as certified expert and to improve his administrator capabilities.

To attain this certification, the candidate should gain HP Learner ID by accessing The Learning Center. Visit http://.www.hp.com/expertone, then register and apply for this certification in The Learning Center. The prerequisite for this certification exam is Administering HP server solutions with exam code HP2-T21. The candidate should complete the prerequisite to take HP ASE - Advanced Server Administrator V8 examination.

Prerequisite

The prerequisite exam, Administering HP server solutions, will help the candidate to gain understanding on the deployment and management of HP Server solutions and HP Bladesystem Solutions. HP offers Instructor led training program for 4 days to complete the course. HP2-T21 exam is a web-based exam for 90 minutes with 55 multiple choice questions. The pass score is 70%. As it is an online exam, the learners are allowed to use their reference materials during the exam. The main topics to be covered for this exam are:

• Server Architecture and technology Fundamentals
• HP Server products, Solutions and Service offerings
• Solution Implementation
• Solution Enhancement
• Troubleshooting and replacement of Solution
• Solution Management

Core Requirement - HP0-S30

After completing the prerequisite exam, the candidate can take the required exam to attain HP ASE - Advanced Server Administrator V8 certification. The core requirement is Design and Implementation of HP SIM and HP Insight Control with exam code HP0-S30. HP offers recommended training (optional) for Exam preparation for this certification course. The beginners are advised to take the recommended training to pass HP0-S30 exam with ease.

The offered recommended training for this certification are:

• AIS- Blade class: Deploying and Managing HP servers with Insight control and HP SIM
• HP SIM and Insight Control: Insight Control, Foundations of Management & Monitoring with SIM v6.0
• HP Insight Control server deployment, previously RDP, 6.0.0
• HP SIM and Insight Control and Infrastructure Orchestration WBTs

This certification will help the candidate to held positions like HP Solution Architect, HP System Engineers, HP Technical Client Consultants and HP Authorised Reseller Partners. HP0-S30 exam is based on industry knowledge gained from the training or prerequisite events. The exam is for 90 minutes with 53 multiple choice questions. The passing score for this exam is 75% and no online or reference materials are allowed during exam.

The main topics to be covered for this exam are

Architecture and Technology Fundamentals: This covers 29% of the exam and it includes the features and functions of HP SIM, Insight Control and Insight Control Server deployment.

Plan and design to attain a deployable solution: This covers 7% of the exam. The topics included are best practices for security, planning and designing deployable solution with the use of Insight Software.

Installation: This covers 11% of the exam and includes HP SIM and options installation and Insight Control Installation.

Setup and Configuration: This covers 7% of the exam and it includes HP SIM configuration and options, Insight Control Configuration and Storage management.

Software deployment and Version Control: The weightage of this topic is 6% and it includes Performance of version control and deployment of software.

Management of HP SIM: This covers 26% of the exam and it includes monitor managed devices, managing of CMS and creation of reports.

Usage of Tasks, tools, collections and events: This covers 3% of the exam and it includes the performance of HP SIM management using collections, tools, tasks and events.

Troubleshooting: This covers 11% of the exam and includes the performance of troubleshooting and replacement of Solutions.

Proper time management and preparation with hands-on experience on HP servers and Solutions will help the candidate to achieve HP ASE - Advanced Server Administrator V8 certification easily. The certified candidate can work flawlessly with the HP server solutions and technologies.

Grigoriy Ni, Consultant, Computer Programming Services Co.