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Jeff Guillet — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:43:55 GMT

This is really great news, especially for those of us who certify very early in the product cycle. Kudos, Learning Team!

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Memmorium — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:19:12 GMT

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ryangaraygay — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:33:20 GMT

Looks like a very good compromise. I agree that a certification should expire eventually but at the same time not too soon that it feels like their efforts to keep just aren't given enough recognition.

As for producing a long list of certifications because of this one, it's way better than re-certifying or having a certification overstay when the person is really not qualified anymore. And besides this is only because Microsoft keeps on looking for ways to make IT and Development better. Whether we can keep up or I should say that's something to be thankful for.

Keep those sound decisions coming!

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Michael Dragone — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:10:31 GMT

Great news! Thanks, Trika.

@dave: Seconded regading the "high level qualification." We need something between the IT Profssional level and Architect, maybe earned when you have say MCITP: Enterprise Administrator plus Messaging Administrator or DBA...hiring managers in my experience are only looking for the "letters" and now the letters can mean a lot!

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Michael D. Alligood — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:26:55 GMT

My CCNA certification is retired. What to know why? Because it meant nothing to me, I didn't work with the technology after training, and didn't see the point in recertifing.

Not sure if this was a smart move or not. I smell the familiar scent of the old MCSE NT4 certification in the stagnant air.

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Alice — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:13:35 GMT

YAY! :-D I am SO glad to see they changed their mind about the three-year 'hamster wheel policy', and ESPECIALLY the 'certs vanishing when MS decides nobody should be using this technology anymore' policy.

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yiseiluk — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:43:47 GMT

Life cycle of some MS products are actually quite short. On the other hand the processing time of the certificates are extremely long....

I took the WM5 exam 70-500 in June 2007 when it just released, but it was Nov 2007 when I received the certs and all new PDAs come with WM6 and by now, Mar 2008, WM7 is coming....

Though WM5 is not a discontinued product but the timing that MS release the exam and certifcate obviously cannot catchup with the product's life cycle

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Dustin Harper — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:51:54 GMT

This is a great idea. I feel that Microsoft technologies move fast enough in development and in the marketplace to make people upgrade their skills to the next version, anyway.

Kudos to Microsoft on this decision! :) It does make me feel more comfortable about my decision on the MCITP exam I am taking next week! :)

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Pete — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:18:14 GMT

Dave's idea of a higher level certification just below MCA should be something like the Scripting Games. You have to write a script that does something automatically and which works within say half an hour to an hour. Most high level stuff isn't done by the GUI it's mostly scripting. Maybe there will be a cert for that in the future. The Scripting Games were very successful and maybe a scripting cert would be more relevant everyday than MCA?