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I just wanted to repost this from the MCSE message board. This information
is useful for MCSA's and MCSE's who want to upgrade to server 2008:


From what I can tell, these new MCITP certifications are the equivalent of the
MCSA and MCSE certifications.

MCSA changes to MCITP Server Administrator
MCSE changes to MCITP Enterprise Administrator

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mc...p/default.mspx

If I'm wrong, somebody please post more info. By the way, the New
Generations of certifications gives absolutely NO credit for previous exams.
There are no Electives. The only credit you get for an MCSA or MCSE is being
able to take the 70-648 or 70-649 Upgrade exams.

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mc...n/default.mspx

I passed the 70-649 MCSE Upgrade and 70-620 Vista exams. Now I'm just
waiting for 70-647 go become available, so I can earn the MCITP Enterprise
Administrator certification.

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-647.mspx

By the way, I think the new MCITP certifications will be confusing to some
non Geeks, like HR secretaries who process job applications. How will they
know the difference between the MCITP Enterprise Administrator, Server
Administrator or Enterprise Support Technician? Heck, you can get an MCITP
Enterprise Support Technician certification by only passing 2 exams:

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mc...t/default.mspx

Maybe just seeing MCITP on the application will be enough to get your foot
in the door. This happened to me when I became MCP certified. I put
Microsoft Certified Professional on my resume. Many non geeks thought
Microsoft Certified Professional meant MCSE. This could happen with an MCTS
certification too. It got me passed the front line of HR weenies, but at the
interview they realized that I had only passed 1 exam. My advise is to get
both MCSE and MCITP certified if you're looking for a new job.

Dude

MCP, MCSA, MCSA/Messaging, MCSE 2000/2003
MCTS, MCITP (Ha, but for what?)
Cisco CCNA
CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+, i-Net+

Whilst I agree that the Inhuman Resources people, and more commonly, the
Slave Traders will have no clue as to the difference between MCSA, MCSE, MCTS
and MCITP, I'm hoping six months of them dealing with the differences will
educate them enough to stop them sending under/overqualified people for jobs.

As to the correlation between MCSA/MCITP Server Admin and MCSE/MCITP
Enterprise Admin, its a little more complex.

From an MCSA, you take one upgrade exam, and get MCTS: AD config, and MCTS:
Net config
From an MCSE, you take one upgrade exam, and get MCTS: AD config, and MCTS:
Net config, and MCTS: Apps config

From that point, it's pretty much equal. Both can do 70-646, and get MCITP:
Server Admin
And if they want the MCITP: Enterprise Admin, they both need to do 70-647,
and either 70-620 or 70-624. But the MCSA also needs the MCTS: Apps config as
well.

So the MCSE and MCSA don't really translate to the two MCITP options, just
the MCTS's that are provided in the upgrade paths.