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Retiring MCTS Exams

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In the year 2013 by June most of the .NET 3.5 MCTS exams will be retired along with few .NET 4 ones. Since Microsoft is doing a different Windows Client model with Windows 8, they are passionately retiring the MCTS: Microsoft .NET Framework 4, Windows Applications Development (70-511)

MCTS: Microsoft .NET Framework 4, Web Applications Development (70-515) is retiring too.

In the SQL Server MCTS collection

MCTS: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Database Development (70-443) is retiring in July 31st.

 

About the full details about the exam collections and retiring dates refer to the following link.

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/mcts-certification.aspx

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Retirement of Microsoft Certifications

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Microsoft certifications are subject to retirement when the specific version of a technology expires or outdated. This time MS comes with loads of new technologies and they have announced set certifications to be expired soon.

The following link has the list of all the certifications which were already expired and the ones to be expired soon.

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/cert-lifecycle.aspx

MCTS and MCPD Certification pathways

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.NET 4.0 exams are there on the shelf. They have made plenty of changes to the .NET 4.0 and its exams as well. The main reason is .NET 4.0 has a CLR update and it is using a different version CLR. Normally there is no update from MCTS (old version) to MCTS (new version) the update exam available only for the MCPD holders. This is applicable to the .NET 4.0 also.

The .NET 4.0 has 4 MCTS versions and 3 MCPD versions.

MCTS Versions

  • .NET 4.0 Windows Application Development (includes WPF and XAML)
  • .NET 4.0 Web Application Development (includes Silverlight , MVC 2.0)
  • .NET 4.0 Data Access Application Development (ADO.NET)
  • .NET 4.0 Service Application Development (WCF)

MCPD Versions

  • .NET 4.0 MCPD in Windows Development  ( Following MCTS are pre requisites : Windows Application,Data Access,WCF)
  • .NET 4.0 MCPD in Web Development ( Following MCTS are pre requisites : Web Application,Data Access,WCF)
  • .NET 4.0 MCPD Enterprise Application Development ( Following MCTS are pre requisites : Windows Application,Web Application,Data Access,WCF)

There’s no separate exams for WPF, WF in .NET 4.0. But they may arrive very soon. I think MCTS for WF will definitely arrive with the SharePoint 2010 exams.