9/18/2002 -- Tomorrow, Microsoft's training and skills assessment group will release two new exams to shore up the developer certification tracks:

• Exam 70-305, Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Visual Basic .NET and Visual Studio .NET
• Exam 70-315 Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Visual C# .NET and Visual Studio .NET

Both exams can be used to fulfill core requirements for the MCAD.NET and MCSD.NET tracks. MCSD.NET candidates must wait until early next year to complete the requirements for that track Exam 70-300, Analyzing Requirements and Defining .NET Solution Architectures, won't be released until Feb. 2003, according to the Microsoft Web site. -M.D., MCPMag.com