Skills Assessment
This assessment is designed to get a general understanding of the skills and competencies which exist within the Practices.  The goal is twofold - Assist with the Practice selection process for the Partner Practice Builder but also function as the baseline for development of the training recommendations.
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Email *
Job Title *
Primary Practice You're Aligned To *
Target Utilization *
0 - 10%
11% - 20%
21% - 40%
41% - 60%
61% - 80%
80% - 100%
Billable
Administrative
Pre-Sales
Skills & Competencies Maturity Model
Please use this maturity model as you complete the following skills self-assessment. The descriptions below are not intended to be complete, consider them as "directionally accurate" for the technologies and processes in future sections. The information collected will be used to help with Practice Builder definition, suggested areas of technical training as well as processes beneficial of focus.
General Skills Rating *
Improvised
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Expert
Networking (General Route/Switch)
Network Security (Firewalls, IPS, IDS, etc)
DataCenter Networking (ACI/KLOSS/etc)
Server Hardware (Physical, Adapters, Etc)
Virtualization (VMWare, KVM, ZEN, etc)
Windows System Admin
Linux System Admin
Software Engineering (aka Development, Programming)
Scripting
Containerization (Docker, RKT, Kubernetes, etc)
Systems Architecture (designing systems)
Software Architecture (designing software systems)
Databases
Azure
AWS
GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
CI/CD
Infrastructure Automation
System Integration
Networking Skills Rating *
Improvised
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Expert
Physical Networking (Layer 1)
Data Link Layer (Layer 2)
Network Layer (Layer 3)
General Routing (BGP, OSPF, etc)
VPN
MPLS
IPS/IDS
Load Balancing
Firewalls
DNS
DHCP
Load Balancer (A10)
IPv6
Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Cisco Networking Equipment/SW
Juniper Networking Equipment/SW
Arista Networking Equipment/SW
F5 Load Balancers
Linux based Networking SW
Palo Alto Firewalls
Virtualization Skills Rating *
Improvised
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Expert
VMWare Center
Nutanix Prism Central
KVM
HyperV
Xen
ESX/ESVi
OpenStack
Systems Engineering Skills Rating *
Improvised
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Expert
Cisco UCS
Cisco Hyperflex
HPE
Dell
EMC
Nutanix
NetApp
Pure
Cohesity
Hitachi
Rubrix
CommVault
Disaster Recovery Design
Fail Over Cluster
SSL Certificates
Software Engineering Skills Rating *
Improvised
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Expert
Functional Programming
Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Methodologies (MVC, IoC, Dependency Injection, etc)
REST
SOAP
Server Side
Client Side
Unit Testing
Mobile - IOS
Mobile - Android
Software Defined Networking *
Improvised
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Expert
Cisco ACI
VMware NSX
Cisco DNA / SDA
Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela)
Silver Peak SD-WAN
VMware VeloCloud
Scripting Skills Rating *
Improvised
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Expert
BASH
Powershell
Python
Java Script
PHP
Ruby
VMWare VRO
Containerization Skills Rating *
Improvised
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Expert
Docker (Open Source)
Docker Swarm
Docker EE
Open Shift
CCP (Cisco)
CSP (Anthos/Google Hybrid)
AKS (Azure)
ECS (Amazon)
GKE (Google)
Kubernetes (Open Source)
Helm
Istio
PKS (Pivotal)
Rancher
Tectonic (CoreOS)
Building Containers
Deploying Containers
Database Skills Rating *
Improvised
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Expert
Oracle
SQL Server
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Cassandra
DynamoDB
AccessDB
Hadoop
SOLR
Elastic
Cloud Skills Rating *
Improvised
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Expert
Google
Azure
IBM / Bluemix / Softlayer
Cloud Foundry
Heroku
AWS
VMWare / AWS
AWS GovCloud
Alibaba
TenCent
Oracle Cloud
Linux Skills Rating *
Improvised
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Expert
Redhat
CentOS
Debian
IBM / Bluemix / Softlayer
Cloud Foundry
Heroku
Ubuntu
CoreOS
Suse
Apache
Nginx
DNS
Samba
SSH
SSL Certificates
Fail Over Cluster
Packaging (RPM/Debian
Repositories
PAM
RHEL Satellite
Windows Skills Rating *
Improvised
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Expert
Windows Server
Active Directory (AD)
IIS
DNS
Security
SSL Certificates
Fail Over Cluster
Languages Skills Rating *
Improvised
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Expert
Javascript
Python
Go Lang
NodeJS
Java
C# .NET
VB .NET
ASP .NET
C / C++
Perl
Ruby
Tools Skills Rating *
Improvised
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Expert
Git
GitHub
Team Foundation Server
Jira
Terraform
Vault
Consul
Packer
Nomad
Puppet
Ansible
Chef
Salt Stack
Elastic.co / ELK
Jenkins
Travis CI
SonarQube
Selenium
Splunk
Solar Winds
App Dynamics
New Relic
Prometheus (Graphite, Grafana)
Nagios
Pager Duty
CircleCI
Bamboo
Enterprise Tools Skills Rating *
Improvised
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Expert
Check_MK
Thousand Eyes
Montis
ServiceNow
Fresh Desk
Cisco CCP
Cisco ACI
Cisco Tetration
Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (CWOM) or Turbonomics
Cisco Hyperflex
Cisco CloudCenter
Nutanix Hyperconverged
Nutanix Calm.io
Compliance & Process
Tools - DevOps & Cloud
Enterprise
Ability to Execute by Functional Area *
Using the same five point system above, across all practices, please provide your view on how effective each of the functional areas are at executing on their mission.
Level 1 - Improvised
Level 2 - Exploratory
Level 3 - Defined
Level 4 - Optimized
Level 5 - Innovating
N/A - No First Hand Knowledge
Sales - Opp Creation to Win
Sales Engineer - PreSales to Scoping
Project Management - Kick-off to Closure
Consulting - On Budget Quality
Managed Services - Recurring Revenue
Ability to Execute by Managed Services *
From a macro perspective please provide your view on how effective each of the Practices are at delivery a Managed Service, Business Process Outsourcing or other type of contractually committed recurring revenue service.
Level 1 - Improvised
Level 2 - Exploratory
Level 3 - Defined
Level 4 - Optimized
Level 5 - Innovating
N/A - No First Hand Knowledge
Data Centre & Cloud
Communication & Collaboration
End-User Compute
Security
Influential Technology Training *
The constant, and accelerating, rate of change in TECHNOLOGY as well as the financial and analytic models used to measure success can make it difficult to stay current.  In this section, please help us understand how you've been prepared to have conversations with prospects and customer.  This is another stack-ranking exercise.
1 - Least Influential
2 - Moderately Influential
3 - Influential
4 - Very Influential
5 - Most Influential
Company sponsored OEM training
Company sponsored Industry training
Company sponsored Practice training
Training from previous employer
Personal invest in knowledge acquisition
How Do You Best Learn *
1 - Least Influential
2 - Moderately Influential
3 - Influential
4 - Very Influential
5 - Most Influential
Self-paced w/ structured content
Self-paced w/ ad hoc content
Instructor led w/ Q&A
Instructor led w/ Q&A and test
Instructor led w/ labs and test
Influential Process Training *
The evolution and adoption of new PROCESSES & MODELS as companies digitally transform has been equally influential.  The impact of ITIL, Lean, Agile, Six Sigma, DevOps and others have had dramatic impacts solution selling motions and buying stakeholders.  In this section, please help us understand how you've been prepared to have conversations with prospects and customer.  This is another stack-ranking exercise.
1 - Least Influential
2 - Moderately Influential
3 - Influential
4 - Very Influential
5 - Most Influential
Company sponsored OEM training
Company sponsored Industry training
Company sponsored Practice training
Training from previous employer
Personal investment in knowledge acquisition
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