MCSE-Win2K for MCT 2002 Deadline Extended
11/14/2001 -- When Microsoft backed off its original plans to decertify thousands of MCSEs on the NT 4.0 track, it had to redefine one requirement for its Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) 2002 program -- to achieve the MCSE on Windows 2000 by Dec. 31, 2001.
According to information published on the company's MCT Secure Web site, Microsoft just recently has extended that deadline to May 1, 2002, which the company says is "based on requests from MCTs and Microsoft CTECs who have asked for more time."
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MCTs can get more information by visiting the MCT Secure Web site.  -MCPMag.com
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There are 21  user Comments for “MCSE-Win2K for MCT 2002 Deadline Extended”
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| 11/14/01: Anonymous says: |
Scrue MS !!!!! |
| 11/15/01: Scott says: |
Is this only extended for MCT's or for all MCSE's? Doesn't matter to me anyway. I'm not going to beat down any doors. Companies that I'm working for are still using and will continue to use NT4. I'll get my certification when I'm ready, and that's even if I decided to. Ok, so I'm going to lose my NT4 certification. Who's to say as soon as I get my W2K Cert, they pull that one and then you have to become XP Certified, or what ever OS they pull out of their hats next. Plus, all of the "text book" MCSE's have killed the prestige of being certified. All the time and money I spend on MS Cert's, I think I'm going back to school instead. |
| 11/15/01: Becky says: |
Hi Scott, this applies only to MCT requirements. No one else is being forced to upgrade since NT and Win2K/.NET are being considered two separate certs, and neither will ever retire. Click on the link over the words "backed off" above to find out more about this new policy where they've decided not to retire NT. -- Becky Nagel, Web Editor, CertCities.com |
| 11/16/01: John says: |
I too was angry when they were going to retire my NT 4 MCSE status. I was also very happy when they decided to back off. However, I now have a bad taste in my mouth about the whole thing and may never update my certification to 2000. I heard the new 2000 tests have trick questions and are designed more to trick you into failing than test knowledge. I am a Network Engineer and have been doing this type of work for over 10 years. I find that you don't require 90% of what you are tested on. Most of us will not install or set up more than a few Networked Systems in our entire carrers unless we are consulting. Most of the time you are applying service packs or trying to keep viruses and hackers out. Then if you have any time left you start planning your next upgrade or system before you run out of wire speed or storage. When I was consulting, my skills were sharp but all the travel and working every weekend and week night gets old fast. There seems to be no middle ground. |
| 11/22/01: Warren says: |
I would simply like the 70-240 exam to be available after december 2001. If the NT certification will not retire, then NT4.0 MCSEs certified before a certain date should be granted the opportunity to sit that exam at ant time or alt least well into the middle of 2002. |
| 11/28/01: Jack says: |
I am frustrated that Microsoft allowed me to certify with Win95, then NT server and NT Enterprise, etc, and then they say I cannot take the Accelerated. If techs are ready to take the accelerated, then why not allow us? M$ also does not allow me to finish my MCSE in NT? I only had 2 more to go....Now I have to pay all over the for 2000 tests? |
| 11/29/01: Bill says: |
Microsoft certainly makes it difficult to be loyal. They seem completely unwilling to acknowledge, much less deal with, the fact that so many of us work in the real world, where time and resources are precious, and we have better things to do than take certification exams, especially considering they are as often as not filled with Microsoft rhetoric (if not outright propoganda) and obscure information. Microsoft has never hesitated to use good ideas that weren't originally theirs; they could learn a lot from the CompTIA folks about how to do certification right. There are very few problems with MS certification that they did not cause themselves. |
| 12/2/01: Anonymous says: |
Text book mcse are a myth if you work in the industry. It is so sad that people act like crabs to pull people down because they got there cert,by the way of the book. Example my company runs nt 4.0 but they have very few 2000 computer. Our company pushed for the tech to get 2000 certified, why because the technolgy was comming down the pike. I not suggesting if you have no computer experience you should get your mcse,but if you work in the helpdesk or break fix and you want to be a SA go for what can it hurt you will learn to trouble shoot the issues anyways. |
| 12/5/01: Sharon says: |
I agree 100% with Warren Anonymous. Forget the "certain date". !!! NT MCSEs should be able to sit for 70-240 for as long as MS acknowledges them as MCSEs. If MS is going to backpeddle, and upset the lives of thousands of people who have already spent thousands of dollars certifying, and then logged probably years loyal to the OS (and the company), then MS should reward the loyalty of these folks by allowing them to test out, and show that they are on top of innovations in the industry. Get a grip, Bill!! You are stepping on the toes of the people who sell your OS. |
| 12/7/01: W2K MCSE says: |
As an W2k MCSE, I can tell, almost everything you know as an NT 4 MCSE becomes moot in a AD native mode evironment. Grouping, nesting, group policies, RIS, Schema modification, integrated DNS are quite different. To me personally, I would be a little leery of a 240 test W2K mcse, not because of the expereince factor of the Technician, but the volume of differences... |
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