Nothing too fancy: exam guidance for WS2008

re: Nothing too fancy: exam guidance for WS2008

William — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:01:08 GMT

Now that the upgrade exams have been retired, how does this change?

re: Nothing too fancy: exam guidance for WS2008

trikah@microsoft.com — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:01:52 GMT

Greg, I don't think so. But sometime in February, I believe?

BT, JTB is right, BTW, WTF.

Kent, Alice is right. You don't need to take 624 to earn your MCITP: EA (though you migth want to take it to have BDD skills reflected in your certs). You need to take 643, not 649, to complete your MCTS on WS2008 requirements, as explained by Alice.

Adam, Alice is right - if you pass 621 you have the MCTS: Vista on your transcript to use as elective credit wherever applicable.

Peter, Greg, 647 beta should be in late December, ish.

Peter, no, for Pete's Sake (if you will) that is legacy from when we built these - back in the days of codewords. Getting that fixed now, I know.

re: Nothing too fancy: exam guidance for WS2008

Peter Read — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:38:24 GMT

Just out of curiosity, is it really supposed to show on the MCP transcripts as "Upgrading Your MCSE on Window Server 2003 to Windows Longhorn Server" rather than Windows Server 2008 ?

re: Nothing too fancy: exam guidance for WS2008

Peter Read — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:38:54 GMT

Yeah I'm kinda curious about 647 (and maybe 646 for fun...) Presume they'll be coming to beta soon?

re: Nothing too fancy: exam guidance for WS2008

Greig — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:34:48 GMT

Any news on a date for 70-647?

re: Nothing too fancy: exam guidance for WS2008

Alice — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:45:35 GMT

Kent, as an MCSA 2003 myself, if I had passed 71-648, my plan was to take 70-643.

As far as I know, 70-649 would not provide any other benefit besides going over the 70-648 material again; and it wouldn't even count for you until you complete MCSE 2003.

And you shouldn't need 70-624 at all to get MCITP:EA, since you already have 70-620 -- you need one or the other, don't need to have both. :-)

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Adam: There was some confusion at first, but I think they did eventually decide that 70-621 will count for any requirement that specifies 70-620.

I had been going to say that you would also need an elective exam (or client, since 620/621 can be either), but then I saw that MCDST can substitute for the MCSA elective, so yes, it looks like you only need 70-290 and 70-291.

re: Nothing too fancy: exam guidance for WS2008

Adam — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:32:35 GMT

Quick question. Say your a MCDST and take the 70-621 test to become a MCPIT. Would the 621 exam cover the 620 core exam requirement of the MCSA 2k3? If it does then that would essentially mean you only need to pass 70-290 and 70-291 to become certified as a MCSA 2k3 at which point you can start the 2k8 upgrades (70-648)?

re: Nothing too fancy: exam guidance for WS2008

Kent Altena — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:12:47 GMT

I have a question. I passed the 71-648 beta exam to upgrade my Windows 2003 MCSA. Is there any reason to take to 70-649 or should I simply take 70-643 (to avoid retesting on certain subjects? I already have passed 70-620, so I should be 2 tests (624,647)from passing at that point.

re: Nothing too fancy: exam guidance for WS2008

BT — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:59:12 GMT

jtb-in-texas, thanks.

Then I still have 647 on my road

Death to the MCSE

Netanel Ben-Shushan's blog — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:05:37 GMT

Well, this is it folks, our lovely king die. Probably from a hardware problem (that's the answer