EMCTA — This curriculum is for partners to learn and validate their technology expertise and solution designskills. The Solutions Design curriculum enables partners to gather, analyze, design, and propose a solution that fully leverages EMC solutions.

You will learn to:

• Advise customers and deliver quality proposals to enable trouble-free, on-time deployment
• Expand sales opportunities by architecting solutions involving multiple technologies
• Achieve pre-sales technical autonomy as a distinguished certified partner

EMCPE — This track is focused on Customer Service and Support resources. This curriculum facilitates partners to

experience and validate their required maintenance and troubleshooting knowledge and skills.

You will learn to:

• Achieve a "trusted resource" status with your customers and proactively maintain deployed EMC solutions
• Diagnose EMC product health; recommend enhancements
• Assist in resolving issues with minimum or no impact to the customers' business

If you like to join the customer service and support resources, maybe you need to take a PE certification. For more information about the different betwwen EMCTA and EMCPE, you are able to refer to the document of PARTNER EDUCATION CATALOG.

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