HP certifications focus on many areas. Classifying by job roles, they are: Sales Certifications, Presales Technical Certifications, Technical Integration Certifications, System Administration Certifications and Hardware Support Certifications. One thing the candidates should notice is that some certifications may not be available in every country or geographic region.
The APC is one of HP Presales Technical Certifications. The APC, named Accredited Presales Consultant, is a certification that equips technical IT professionals with the skills to effectively analyze customer business requirements and plan and design an HP solution. It includes application, platform, operating system, storage, networking and so on. HP Accredited Presales Consultant requires candidates' skills to gather customer business requirements, recognize the opportunities, and make recommendations from the HP solutions portfolio. The ideal candidates are technology-aligned specialists who plan and design solutions based on HP technologies for customers
The following are the APC certifications available:
APC - HP Virtualization Solutions
APC - HP StorageWorks Solutions
APC - HP Imaging and Printing Solutions
APC - HP Integrity Servers
APC - Specialty in HP StorageWorks XP Solutions
APC - HP Insight Dynamics - VSE
APC - HP ProLiant Server Solutions
APC - HP Superdome Server Solutions