Microsoft Announces Retirement of MCSE+I, MCP+Site Building
1/11/2001 -- Microsoft announced today via its Web site that it will retire its MCSE+Internet and MCP+Site Building certifications.
According to the announcement, most of the core exams for MCSE+I will be retired on February 28, 2001. Those candidates who earn the certification before that date will retain their title until Dec. 31, 2001. No upgrade path is planned.
Exam 70-055: Designing and Implementing Web Sites with MS Front Page 98, a core exam for the MCP+Site Building designation, will be retired on June 30, 2001. However, tests 70-057: Designing and Implementing Commerce Solutions with Microsoft Site Server 3.0, Commerce Edition, and 70-152: Designing and Implementing Web Solutions with Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 will continue to be available. Thus, candidates may continue earning the MCP+Site Building credential with exam 70-057 and 70-152 through June 30, 2002. No upgrade path is planned; instead, Microsoft recommends that candidates consider upgrading to the Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) certification.
These announcements weren't unexpected: The three exams required for MCP+SiteBuilding have been out of date for quite some time. And in its February 2001 issue, Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine will quote Anne Marie McSweeney, the acting director for Microsoft's Certification Skill and Assessment group, acknowledging the upcoming retirement of the MCSE+I. She said: "We won't be coming out with [a new version of the] MCSE+Internet. We've upped the bar on the MCSE. Those individuals who have been challenged [with the MCSE+I] - I think they're going to be challenged with the [new] MCSE [for Windows 2000]."
For more information, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/trainingandservices/default.asp?PageID=mcp&PageCall=retire.  - B.N.
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| 1/12/01: Patricia says: |
Maybe you should do an article or series of articles on how pissed off and abandoned people fee who have worked so hard to get their certifications and are now being pushed into expensive recertifications to favor Microsoft's marketing plan. I agree that we need to keep abreast of today's technology, but their heavy-handed aproach to discounting the very people who are supporting their products and generating sales for them sucks. As a database professional it has caused me to serious consider changing my focus to Oracle. I'm about sick of the certification hype anyway. Regardless of what Microsoft says, the NT certification is bound to be valid for a good long time. Many businesses are not as eager to jump to Microsoft's tune as they may like. Sure it will come eventually as product support dwindles and technology requires change, but it will be at the decision of the corporations themselves - not Microsoft. |
| 1/12/01: Becky says: |
Excellent suggestion, Patricia. It's definitely a topic to explore. Let's start the conversation here. Everyone: Do you agree that Microsoft's recent decisions regarding its certification program are being made in favor of its marketing plan, at expense of those certified? Or are these just the natural changes any certification program must go through to remain relevant? I'll gather the comments and see where it takes us. -- Becky Nagel, Web Editor, CertCities.com ([email protected]) |
| 1/12/01: Wagner says: |
How soon does Microsoft really think that companies are going to start deploying and supporting Win2K, Feb 28th??? - Get Real! This was an unfair move for MS, a retirement of Fall 2001 would have been more realistic. The timeframe for 3.51 retiration was far more extended than this. Wagner Mateo MCSE New Jersey [email protected] |
| 1/12/01: Kevin says: |
Its probably a bit of both. The NT MCSE is hardley worth the paper its printed on anymore. I say this realizing that there are many MCSE's who are truly competent and deserve to be certified, but there are also many MSCE's who are paper tigers. Part of MS's rationale has to be to restore some credibilty to their certificatons. The MCSD and other developer certs have not had the same dilema, as a person with little experience would find it most difficult to pass a programming exam after just reading a book. |
| 1/12/01: JMZ says: |
How can you blame MS for wanting to move the MCSE certification to the next level. The days of NT4 are numbered. MCSE4.0's are a dime a dozen. all you 4.0's in California can use your certifications as fuel to heat your homes during the energy crisis! 3.51 - 4.0 - 2000 = progress! it is a wonderfull thing! |
| 1/12/01: Tom J says: |
You are talking about 13,000 of the almost 1 million MS certified people who have these certs, I assume the effort and time required to upgrade these certs to be current. Cisco also retired a CCIE track I was eyeing for SNA, it is supposedly being dropped for lack of intrest. If people are not pursuing these certs should they continue offering them? |
| 1/12/01: Tom J says: |
That will teach me to try to post while I am working on other things! I was trying to say; I think the effort and time required my Microsoft to upgrade the track with meaningful exams to restore the value to these certs is way beyond how much energy MS wants to spend if only 13,000 people are going to try to get them. |
| 1/12/01: Anna says: |
I'm one of those "paper MCSEs" and proud of it. I worked hard for my certifications, with no experience in the field. The one thing that I did understand going in is that my certification is a starting point. I took a technical job where I can get the experience. If the MCSE 2000 undercuts people like me, where can we go for true entry level training? Is the problem more with the training centers promising amazing career choices with only the MCSE and no experience? I found the MCSE 4.0 track to be about as much as I could handle (It ain't easy being green). My company is very happy with my knowledge base, and plans on helping me retain my MCSE with the 2000 track. I did not expect to be the know-it-all systems admin. out of the gate, but I'm a very well prepared technical coordinator, with an eye on 5 years from now being a very well prepared systems admin. |
| 1/12/01: Ice says: |
I think Microsoft should come out some sort of "Designer" Certification similar to CCDA/CCDP to replace MCSE+I. Since there will be several "design" exams released soon, and there are already three in live version (Net. Infra. design, Security Design, Active Directory Design), it should serve as a premium certification since system design require extensive industrial experiences and indepth technical knowledge. |
| 1/16/01: Ray says: |
Had Microsoft waited until W2K had a large market share to announce the retirement of the NT4 MCSE I would have said that this was the natural order of things. W2K was still a gleam in Bill Gates eyes when the retirement was announced. This was definetly a marketing ploy. How do you announce the retirement of something when the replacement exams (and cert) were not available, and the product iteself was barely out of beta. |
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