What was the HP2-E58 exam?
HP2-E58 was a web-based sales exam in HP’s ExpertONE certification program. HP’s documentation for this specific code was not preserved, so its exact title cannot be verified. Its immediate siblings are documented and identify the family clearly: HP2-E59 was Introduction to Selling Servers, Storage, Networking and Services, and HP2-E60 was Selling HP Cloud, Converged Systems and Services. HP2-E58 therefore belongs to HP’s enterprise sales certification track, covering the server, storage, networking and services portfolio that became Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
The Family This Exam Belonged To
Two HP2-E datacards survive in web archives, and both are HP Sales Certified exams on the enterprise portfolio.
HP2-E59, Introduction to Selling Servers, Storage, Networking and Services. Per HP’s datacard: a web-based online exam, 1 hour 15 minutes, 50 questions, 60 percent passing score, delivered in nine languages including Brazilian Portuguese, Castilian Spanish, English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, French and German. It led to HP Sales Certified - Introduction to Selling Servers, Storage, Networking and Services [2014], with a matching training course and study guide.
HP2-E60, Selling HP Cloud, Converged Systems and Services. Per HP’s datacard: web-based, 1 hour 15 minutes, 40 questions, 60 percent passing score, the same nine delivery languages. It led to HP Advanced Sales Certified - Cloud, Converged Systems and Services [2014].
Note the tier distinction between them. E59 fed a Sales Certified credential and is framed as an introduction. E60 fed an Advanced Sales Certified credential on a more specialised subject. HP’s sales track had levels much as its technical track did, and the numbering sequence sits within that structure.
The nine delivery languages on both exams are worth noticing. These were global channel enablement exams, built for HP’s worldwide partner network, and translated far more widely than HP’s technical exams. HP2-Z30, a technical networking exam, was offered in three languages by comparison.
Sales Certification in HP’s Program
It is easy to dismiss vendor sales certifications, but within HP’s channel they had a concrete function.
HP required partner organisations to maintain certified staff to hold partner status, which in turn governed access to pricing, deal registration, and program benefits. A sales certification was not primarily a personal development exercise; it was a compliance requirement that partner firms needed their staff to satisfy.
That explains the design of these exams. Web-based rather than proctored, roughly an hour, 40 to 50 questions, a 60 percent pass mark, extensive language coverage, and a matching training course and study guide for each. They were built to be taken at scale across a global partner network, not to gate a scarce expert credential.
It also explains what holding one signals: that you worked for an HP partner in an enterprise sales or presales role during that period, and that your firm needed you certified.
What Cannot Be Verified
HP published a datacard for every ExpertONE exam with its official title, duration, question count, passing score, languages, related certification, and supporting courses. Those pages went offline when HP restructured after the company split, and HPE maintains no public archive of them.
Roughly sixty exam datacards survive in the Internet Archive. HP2-E58 is not among them, and no parent certification datacard naming it has been located. This page therefore does not state its title or its blueprint.
From the sibling pattern, a reasonable inference is that HP2-E58 was a web-based enterprise sales exam of similar construction: around 1 hour 15 minutes, 40 to 50 questions, a 60 percent pass mark, broad language coverage, feeding a Sales Certified or Advanced Sales Certified credential in the [2014] series. That is an inference from the family, labelled as one.
Third-party sites will state a title and syllabus with confidence. They sell question banks and are frequently inaccurate. In this same research, several such sites classified HP2-Z30 as a storage exam when HP’s own datacard shows it covered networking. A source wrong about a documented exam should not be trusted on an undocumented one.
What This Credential Is Worth Today
As a current certification, nothing. It is retired and cannot be verified as active.
As evidence of enterprise channel experience, it is specific and real. You sold or presold enterprise infrastructure through HP’s partner network in the mid-2010s. For anyone hiring into enterprise infrastructure sales, that is relevant background, though the credential itself is not what demonstrates it.
What transferred: the commercial capability. Positioning infrastructure against competitors, running a presales qualification conversation, and understanding how enterprise infrastructure purchasing actually works, with its procurement cycles, deal registration, and partner economics, are all durable. If your exam was in the E60 direction, covering cloud and converged systems, the consumption and as-a-service commercial models you learned then have only become more central.
What did not: the product specifics and the portfolio positioning. HP’s enterprise lineup went to Hewlett Packard Enterprise on 1 November 2015 and changed substantially afterward, including a significant shift in how enterprise infrastructure is sold, from capital purchases toward subscription and consumption models.
How to present it. Name the certification if your records show which one it was, with a year: for example “HP Sales Certified - [credential name], 2014, retired.” The bare code communicates nothing. If your records are incomplete, describe the work instead: the portfolio you sold, the accounts, the scale, the results. For a sales background, results are the evidence and certifications are corroboration.
Describe it accurately as a sales certification. Presenting an HP2-E credential as a technical one would be recognised immediately by anyone who knows the program.
What To Do If You Hold This Credential
Check your own records first. An HP Learner ID from that era may still retrieve your certification history through HPE’s learning systems, and your original certificate or confirmation email will name the credential the exam counted toward. Both beat any published source for your own history.
Look to HPE for anything current in this area, since the enterprise portfolio went to Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HPE runs its own partner program with current sales and technical enablement requirements, structured separately from the retired ExpertONE credentials. Note that this differs from the HP2-B printing series, which sits with HP Inc.
Do not recertify for its own sake. If you are still in the HPE channel, the current partner program requirements are what matter, and they are set by HPE now rather than inherited from ExpertONE.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I still take HP2-E58? No. HP’s ExpertONE exams are retired and no longer available.
What was the exam called? HP’s documentation for this specific code was not preserved, so its title cannot be verified. Its siblings HP2-E59 and HP2-E60 were enterprise sales exams, which places HP2-E58 in that family.
What does the HP2-E prefix indicate? Based on HP’s surviving datacards, HP2 denoted web-based exams and the E series covered enterprise sales: servers, storage, networking, services, and cloud and converged systems.
How is HP2-E different from HP2-B? The E series covered enterprise infrastructure sales, the portfolio that became Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The B series covered printing and personal systems sales, which went to HP Inc. in the 2015 company split.
Was this a technical certification? No. The HP2-E series were sales certifications aimed at HP’s partner channel, feeding Sales Certified and Advanced Sales Certified credentials.
When did it retire? No retirement date is published. HPE does not maintain a public retired-exams list equivalent to those some other vendors publish.
References
HP. ExpertONE Exam Datacard: HP2-E59, Introduction to Selling Servers, Storage, Networking and Services. Archived January 2015. (Primary source establishing the HP2-E series as enterprise sales exams, with format details: web-based, 1 hour 15 minutes, 50 questions, 60 percent passing score, nine delivery languages, and the related HP Sales Certified [2014] credential)
HP. ExpertONE Exam Datacard: HP2-E60, Selling HP Cloud, Converged Systems and Services. Archived 2015. (Second HP2-E example: web-based, 1 hour 15 minutes, 40 questions, 60 percent passing score, feeding HP Advanced Sales Certified - Cloud, Converged Systems and Services [2014], establishing the tier distinction within the sales track)
HP. ExpertONE Exam Datacard: HP2-B115, Selling HP Printing and Personal Systems Hardware. Archived 2015. (Contrasting HP2-B series example, used to establish that the letter after HP2 identifies the subject area and business unit)
HP. ExpertONE Exam Datacard: HP2-Z30, HP FlexNetwork Fundamentals. Archived October 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151017200737/http://h10120.www1.hp.com/expertone/datacard/Exam/HP2-Z30 (Comparison point for delivery language breadth between technical and sales exams, and basis for the caution about third-party listings)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HPE Certification and Learning. https://certification-learning.hpe.com/ (Current HPE certification and partner enablement tracks)