Proven Professional Program: A New Certification Framework

Proven Professional Program: A New Certification Framework

Through 2023 and beyond, the fast-changing IT reality will call for the integration of skills required to reach desired business outcomes. IT professionals’ function will be more than a role defined by specific technology, product or service. It will focus on solutions outcomes requiring an integration of multiple, various skills.

That is why Dell Technologies Proven Professional Certification program now offers certifications that align skills to outcomes rather than to specific applications. Dell’s Education Services has launched ten of the more than forty offerings of certifications and exam preparation that specifically satisfy the requirements of the “new world IT”.

Thanks to this change, an IT organization can drive better performance by professionals who are more productive, thanks to greater skills integration and stronger engagement in their functions. The training and certification in the new Proven Professional Program help learners reach their critical learning goals, aligned to technologies critical for desired outcomes.

Let us examine the Proven Professional Certification Program’s attention to skills and outcome-based certifications. Dell Technologies Education Services’ research of industry trends and IT training needs has identified the integrated skills sets required to achieve critical outcomes for IT success. More importantly, the research revealed the breadth of those skills to be greater than single products or programs or applications. Education Services is assembling certifications streamlined to substantiate achievement of specific skills and capabilities. In effect, the preparation and certification allow the individual to answer: Do I have the skills to perform the required functions in this technology? Beyond that, the Proven Professional certifications verify the technological knowledge and expertise of processes to validate that the learner can achieve desired outcome.

Previously, Proven Professional Certification offered three levels of certification-- Associate, Specialist, Expert -- offered for specific knowledge areas such as cloud and data protection. As the functions and objectives of IT departments have evolved, the focus has shifted to solutions outcomes in areas of deployment, design, operations, maintenance and more. The new Proven Professional Program collates skills and knowledge for outcomes—Deploy, Design, Operate, Maintenance--in these functional technology areas: multi-cloud, applications and data, resiliency and security, and modern workforce.

This new and improved approach offers the value of focusing on what matters most to the IT organization: new skills, validation of exact skills and knowledge, and solutions outcomes. Removal of time spent on irrelevant skills or skills the learner presumably possesses already reduces both class time and exam time. Offering solutions outcomes certifications includes both Dell and its partners such as Microsoft, Vmware and others. Simply stated, these changes will enable customers’ workforces to become more productive as they provide powerful IT outcomes for their organizations.

Check out these sites for additional information:

• New Certification Framework