CTP - Telecommunications Industry Association’s Convergence Technologies Professional

The Telecommunications Industry Association’s Convergence Technologies Professional (CTP) is a vendor-neutral certification for IT professionals who have the core knowledge and skills required by equipment manufacturers, their channel partners, and end-users to sell and service convergence technologies. This certification shortens the path to vendor-specific certifications.” The CTP is required for certain Intel-Tel, and Mitel training, is endorsed as a“stepping stone” for the Cisco IP Telephony certification, is accepted as an equivalent to the Avaya Certified Associates (ACA) core exam, and is recommended as one of the preparation activities for the Nortel Networks VoIP Technology certification exam #920-801.

The TIA CTP certification emerged in the spring 2002 and, so far, no retirement date has been announced for the CTP TT0-101 exam.

Job roles of those pursuing this certification typically include: channel partner sales professionals, technical representatives, advanced technical engineers, and application sales engineers.

To achieve the CTP, a candidate must pass one exam.