Calling all EMC Proven Professionals!

Welcome, Diego!  Can you let us know how you prepared for the STF exam (some other members have been interested in that topic) and also if the learning and certification experience provided you with any benefits on the job?  We love to hear about people's experiences with the EMC Proven Professional program.

I am looking for a change now & due to my certifications I a getting more preference. Due to down time..not getting a good salary...anyway certifications help a lot...

EMC Proven Professional program is really good program to enhance the technical skills. I have done my EMCPA & EMCIE(Symmetrix Business Cuntunity Specialsit), it builds our confidence & proves us in the job market too.

Sanjeet

That's great to hear, Sanjeet.  There are a couple of new articles that list EMC Proven Professionals as high-ranking in terms of opportunity and salary.  Was that your experience? Can you tell us more......did your certification help you to keep or to get a job?

Hello Michelle!!

I've prepared STF studying from STF web-based training (the company that I work for payed for the training), later on we've got some VILTs but I had already took the test by the time they got here. I took the example tests on EMC education website and that helped a lot to try me myself up for the real exam and to know how far I was from the real questions.

It brought many beneficts!!! Firts of all My team and I were the first five poeple on my country's company site to get an EMC certification, we got better salaries and better job possitions, I went from just doing some allocations to manage a whole environment with many assets and technologies. A VERY important plus to taslk about is the understanding EMC has about every process and client needs. I couldn't be any happier about EMC and Certs.

Thank you!!!

Hi there !

When I started doing this job I had to certify for Clariion IE, which I earned in about 1 year and coming from a history without any SAN or Storage whatsoever I think I did my best in a reasonable amount of time. After that I got the Clariion IEe, Clariion TA, Business Continuity IE and TA. So I now have 4 certs, one of which is an expert level.

Wow, earning CLARiiON IE  in a year without any SAN or Storage experience is an amazing accomplishment!  So it sounds as though you had to get that certificaiton, what got you hooked on earning your other certifications?

Hi Michella,

Randeep this side from India. I am working with Ace Data devices!!!

I think you are the same one as i have worked with when i faced problem taking backup of NAS through NDMP in Networker. Right?

Nice to find you here. How are you doing?

Can you help me out if i want to know about certain certification exams?

Thanks and Regards,

Randeep Singh

HI Randeep, I'd be glad to help you with any questions about certification exams (but I don't think I helped you with NetWorker).  Glad to meet you, though, just let me know what you'd like to hear about and I help.

Hi Randeep,

Here is some information about our exams that may be helpful.

EMC Proven Professional exams are available at Pearson VUE testing centers worldwide.  EMC exams cost $200 USD and are payable by credit card or EMC voucher.

If you have a Powerlink account you can use the instructions below to access information on the EMC Proven Professional Program: such as practice test links, exam descriptions and recommended study materials.

Log into the Education Portal  (http://education.emc.com)

Click on EMC Proven Professional Certification

Select Certification

Select Certification Framework (found on the left hand side or middle of the page)

Click on the Track you are pursuing (i.e. Tech Architect)

Click on the Specialty you wish to pursue within the track (i.e.CLARiiON Solutions, Symmetrix BC)

If you don’t have a Powerlink account go to Powerlink@emc.com to request one.

If you still have question on the program the EMC Proven Professional help desk can help – EdServices@emc.com

Hello Sir,

Randeep this side.

How are you doing?

I am currently working on Networker , Avamar and Retrospect. As far as i have read in your replies, you have done certification on BURA. Can you help me out if i have to do BURA certification. How much is the cost for this certification exam and if i am working in partner of EMC, can i get some discount on crtification exam?

I will be thankfull for your help.

Thanks and regards,

Randeep Singh

Hi Michelle,

I work for an EMC distributor in the UK (Avnet) on most of the EMC range. I have Expert Clariion TA certifications, taken quite a few more courses and taking the VMware fast track course in the next few weeks. I have been working with EMC since late 90's.I would happily recommend the Design workshop and Clariion performance course which I really enjoyed and learnt a lot. I have to advise our partners on which courses to take to achive ASN status so fairly well up on the available courses, exams etc.

regards

Roger

Great to meet you Roger; I think I'll start another string to see if your fellow CLARiiON Experts want to add to your recommendations.

I work for an ASN partner and I'm a Clariion "TA", but "IE expert" as well (as well as TA and IE on Symmetrix) and I must say that the performance courses indeed are very good ones (I took them on CX and Symm). I certainly learned a lot about I/O behavior which helps me sizing arrays for specific apps, like Exchange or databases.