New Generation of Microsoft Certifications vs MCSD

I am currently working on obtaining my MCSD and have sat some exams. With
the New Generation of Microsoft Certifications, does that mean that the exams
I have passed are superceded with these new certifications?

It seems that I should not sit the remaining exams to complete the MCSD and
should concentrate on sitting the new exams for the new Technology,
Professional and Architect Series.

Any recommendations?

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Depending on how far along you are with the MCSD exams, I would try to
complete it, or atleast complete the MCAD, and continue with the upgrade
exams.

Upgrade from MCAD to the new professional developer windows/web cert. is
only 1 exam, compared to the regular 3. And the upgrade to professional
developer distributed app. is 2 exams compared to the regular 5.

btw. Am i the only one to think it's strange there is no 'product' exam
required for the pro. dev. distr. app?

Paul van Brenk
MCSD .Net
MCDBA


"Chris" <> wrote in message
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>I am currently working on obtaining my MCSD and have sat some exams. With
> the New Generation of Microsoft Certifications, does that mean that the
> exams
> I have passed are superceded with these new certifications?
>
> It seems that I should not sit the remaining exams to complete the MCSD
> and
> should concentrate on sitting the new exams for the new Technology,
> Professional and Architect Series.
>
> Any recommendations?
>
>

What have I missed now?

From what Ive heard MS is keeping the MCP,MCAD, MCSD cert. But are
introducing a architect cert. where the test procedure is quite different.
You will have to explain in front of a commitee a solution to a spesific
case. This cert. will be the ultimate of all certs. and will probably be
really expensive.

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"Paul van Brenk" wrote:

> Depending on how far along you are with the MCSD exams, I would try to
> complete it, or atleast complete the MCAD, and continue with the upgrade
> exams.
>
> Upgrade from MCAD to the new professional developer windows/web cert. is
> only 1 exam, compared to the regular 3. And the upgrade to professional
> developer distributed app. is 2 exams compared to the regular 5.
>
> btw. Am i the only one to think it's strange there is no 'product' exam
> required for the pro. dev. distr. app?
>
> Paul van Brenk
> MCSD .Net
> MCDBA
>
>
> "Chris" <> wrote in message
> news:784AB0C7-B740-4649-B432-...
> >I am currently working on obtaining my MCSD and have sat some exams. With
> > the New Generation of Microsoft Certifications, does that mean that the
> > exams
> > I have passed are superceded with these new certifications?
> >
> > It seems that I should not sit the remaining exams to complete the MCSD
> > and
> > should concentrate on sitting the new exams for the new Technology,
> > Professional and Architect Series.
> >
> > Any recommendations?
> >
> >
>
>
>

"=?Utf-8?B?QmrDtnJuIE9sc3Nvbg==?="
<> wrote in
news:FE18A5AB-FA1B-4309-8C5A-:

> From what Ive heard MS is keeping the MCP,MCAD, MCSD cert.

Last information I got from Microsoft is that the following certs will be
removed for the next version fo the product(s):

MCSE
MCDBA
MCSD

Who's right, I honestly don't know.

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Ole Kristian Bangås
MCT, MCDBA, MCDST, MCSE:Security, MCSE:Messaging