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The goals of the
FCPAâ
are to build a vendor independent, market neutral membership driven
association to: |
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Establish
Field
Certification™
as
universally accepted terminology for hands-on, performance-based
certifications in the IT industry |
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Build the esteem,
status, recognition, and visibility of the Field Certified
Professional™ (FCP™) |
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Give independent
recognition and endorsement to existing, qualifying performance-based
IT certifications as
Field
Certification™ credentials |
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Establish
standards to guide such FCPAâ
endorsement |
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Assist vendors to
develop
Field
Certification™ exams for their technology or
products |
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Accredit
Field
Certification™ exams for technologies or
products where the market (CIOs, professionals, consultants, and
educators) demands it and vendors do not have such mode of testing |
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Stimulate the
investment to establish a worldwide infrastructure of
Field
Certification™ testing centers, and allow any
sponsoring member to plug into as needed |
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Encourage the
courseware and Testware vendors to develop training/simulation
Testware content in line with skill sets necessary to perform actual
tasks based on industry needs |
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Establish a
professional network and a multitude of benefits for individuals who
have earned their FCPÔ
and for information technology and human resource managers who recruit
FCPs |
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Encourage the
courseware vendors to develop training content in line with skill sets
necessary to perform actual tasks based on industry needs |
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Enable the
training and certification industry to develop uniform and unified
goals |
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Deter government
intervention in the IT certification process by enabling industry self
regulation |
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Facilitate
information sharing and collaboration between managers of IT
certification programs and with the IT testing and training industries |
