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FCPA® sponsors are leaders in the IT
industry with a passion for education and certification. We are grateful
that they have been supportive of our mission and with their help we have
been able to bring enormous benefit and advantage to our entire member
community and the IT industry as a whole. They work closely with our staff
to support our activities. We thank them for their support, leadership,
guidance, advice, and feedback. Although most of these organizations have
worldwide recognition, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with these
organizations and determine how you can support them and directly benefit
from their services by visiting their web sites.
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Corporate Sponsors |
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Cisco
Corporate Sponsor |
By focusing on
customer satisfaction and technology innovation,
Cisco Systems, Inc.
has become the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet.
Cisco
is the pioneer in performance-based certification with its highly
respected CCIE exam.
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Novell
Corporate Sponsor |
Novell
was the pioneer in two fronts. It first introduced the first Network
Operating System for the PCs in the early 80's (NetWare™), and the first
company to introduce the first IT certifications CNE™ (Certified Novell
Engineer) and CNA™ (Certified Novell Administrator) in the late 80's.
Novell's vision is to create software solutions that bring all kinds of
networks - intranets, extranets, and the Internet; corporate and
private; wired to wireless - together as one Net.
Novell
is one of a handful of vendors that has a hands-on test called CDE™
(certified Directory Engineer).
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Red Hat
Corporate Sponsor |
Red Hat
began in 1994 and has become the largest and most recognized company
dedicated to open source. The company now has more than 500 employees
and 15 locations worldwide. Red Hat is a major provider of Linux
operating systems worldwide.
Red Hat
is the first company in the world to offer an operating system hands-on
exam called RHCE™ (Red Hat Certified Systems Engineer).
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Professional Certification Magazine
Corporate Sponsor |
Professional Certification Magazine
is a well-respected magazine dedicated to certified professionals
worldwide, specializing in Professional Certification news and
information. ProCert Labs, a component of Professional
Certification Magazine,
was developed over four years to address the growing need for a
standards-based quality assurance methodology for courseware products.
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Academic Sponsors |
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Computer Analytics
For-Profit Academic Sponsor
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Since its
establishment in 1992,
Computer Analytics,
Inc. (CAI)
has been providing high-quality computer education, certification and
consulting services to corporate, government, and public clients.
CAI's innovative
ideas and approach to education and certification led to its creation of
Field Certification™
concept and
its support and formation of the Field Certified Professional
Association® (FCPA®), the first and premier
provider of vendor-independent and market-neutral performance-based
testing for the IT industry worldwide.
CAI
was the first For-Profit Academic Sponsor of FCPA®.
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Connecting Point
For-Profit Academic Sponsor |
Connecting Point
is an innovative provider of technical education to new entrants into
the IT field. Their approach to hands-on approach to both teaching and
testing their students has earned them a national reputation and a rapid
growth in multiple national locations.
Connecting Point
is the second For-Profit Academic Sponsor of FCPA® after the
founding member,
Computer Analytics,
Inc. (CAI).
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Landegg International University
Non-Profit Academic Sponsor
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Landegg International
University
is a non-profit educational institution in Switzerland. The University
draws its faculty and students from more than thirty countries. It
offers undergraduate (BA) and graduate (MA and MLM) degree programs in
various fields. It has an emerging IT department that has been growing
at unprecedented rate. The University started its IT department
Field Certification™
as one of its
basic foundations.
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