I am treading into a dev group which for me is strange territory. However I
am somewhat familiar with the Partner Program, having now helped two
companies go Gold in the last year.
1. You need 120 points to be a Gold Certified Partner, not 100.
2. Unfortunately on the MCP points individuals now max out at three points
each, ergo you can have every cert in the book and you get three points
only.
3. You must have two MCPs (MCTS qualifies too) to become a Certified
Partner. For most of the specializations you may need multiple MCPs with
senior certs (Advanced Network Infrastructure, for example, requires two
MCSEs.)
Good luck!
M
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"Chris Mullins" <> wrote in message
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> "Scott Lock" <> wrote:
>>
>> One other point on this, I had a very hard time finding out if the MCPD
>> even
>> counted for compentencies that required MCSD credentials. It was not
>> posted
>> in the partner management site (partners.microsoft.com) but was listed on
>> the
>> main site (partner.microsoft.com).
>
> It's funny that you mention this. I was recently tasked with:
> "Get our company up to Certified Partner Status. Gold Partner if
> possible."
>
> Some of this is easy to understand:
> - Get our products tested by MS to have the various "designed for" logos
> on them.
> - Customer References
> - Sell lots of Microsoft Software
>
> The area in which I'm confused is related to the MCP stuff. I can't tell
> how many MCP's I need, and how many points are given for specific things.
> None of the net new certs (.Net 2.0, Sql2k5, etc) were listed that I could
> find. I'm talking here about the general, "you need 50 points for
> Certified Partner, and 100 points for Certified Gold Partner" stuff. I'm
> just trying to figure out how best to achieve our point totals.
>
> I can't tell if our DBA should go get an older MCDBA, or the newer SQL
> 2005 track. I can't tell if my MCPD counts towards this or not. I can't
> tell if I get bonus points for being both MCSD, MCPD:Enterprise. I can't
> tell if I should go get the MCPD:Win / Web certs for more points. Hell, I
> can't tell if our DBA should punt on the SQL cert all together and get his
> MCAD / MCSD / MCTS / MCPD.
>
> I general I'm hoping this gets cleared up soon. I understand we're still
> in the transistion period between Certs, and MS has alot of stuff to
> update, but it's coming up quick on a year and this needs to get cleaned
> up.
>
> --
> Chris Mullins, MCSD.NET, MCPD:Enterprise
> http://www.coversant.net/blogs/cmullins
>
>
