I got no problem with people being nit-picky witch-me... But I do expect to see an authoritative source for the information. Otherwise, the only valid point in this whole thread is that the O.P. needs to register his existing certs on his MCP Transcript . . . [ and see what shows up in the Certification Planner afterwards ]. -- Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCITP:EA, MCDBA Principal/CTO, Onsite Technology Solutions, Houston, Texas Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2009) My Blog: http://onsitechsolutions.spaces.live.com Microsoft WSUS Website: http://www.microsoft.com/wsus My MVP Profile: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Lawrence.Garvin
Yeah.. it's a property of a Regional Service Center (Australia), not the Corporate Microsoft Learning group, and my point is that I've found several other 'out-of-date' content items at that URL (http://www.microsoft.com/australia) (like downloads for Win2003 Evaluation Editions, which were pulled from the U.S. site eons ago and do not exist on any other *regional* site in the world)... my point is that *I* believe that URL (http://www.microsoft.com/australia) has no credibility (with me, at least) because of the poor maintenance of archaic content at that site... my point is that for =U.S.= candidates, trusting or using information from a *regional* site is a bad idea, under any circumstances. The certification program is managed by the Regional Service Centers (Who do you call if you have a certification problem???) -- and *maybe* that information is still valid for Australia; or *maybe* that URL should have been removed from the site; or *maybe* the ability to use CompTIA exams has actually been deprecated and the website(s) have been poorly updated to reflect that; or *maybe* the specific exam(s) that are acceptable is changing, or has changed. When the only references that can be cited are dated over three years ago, and from non-corporate sources, I'm going to be a bit skeptical about the authority and accuracy of that information. Ironically, despite what appears to be an effort on the part of Microsoft Learning to centralize and localize their web pages . . . http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/mcse.aspx There aren't any other "localized" English-language sites with this content: All of these links result in an HTTP 404 redirect to Microsoft's search engine http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/uk/certification/mcse.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/ca/certification/mcse.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/au/certification/mcse.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/nz/certification/mcse.aspx -- and to my total amusement, the redirected page for the /en/au/ link, doesn't even include a single search reference to http://www.microsoft.com/australia. *AND*... if you go to http://www.microsoft.com/australia and click on the link for "IT Pro Training & Certification", that link redirects you to . . . Guess Where!?! -- the EN-US content on the corporate site: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/default.aspx To me, that says that any of the certification pages still available from http://www.microsoft.com/australia are abandoned, and the problem is simply that they've not been removed from the site. But the bottom line here, and it applies to *everybody* participating in this thread... ==WE== do not know the facts, as applicable to the MCSA/MCSE certifications in ==2009==, except based on what is posted on the Microsoft Learning Official Certification Requirements pages -- Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCITP:EA, MCDBA Principal/CTO, Onsite Technology Solutions, Houston, Texas Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2009) My Blog: http://onsitechsolutions.spaces.live.com Microsoft WSUS Website: http://www.microsoft.com/wsus My MVP Profile: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Lawrence.Garvin
Thanks a lot for your valuable contributions, yes i did register my Comptia A+/N+ certs, they do appear on my transcript now, I also contacted the regional support coordinator and she confirmed that to acquire MCSA Windows Server 2003, i would only need to do 290, 291,270/620 and A+&N+ would qualify to satisfy one of the electives, it's also stated in the cert. planner.
