Microsoft certification exam

Question

Which microsoft certification exam suitable for bignner.....? I have exp in asp.net C# which microsoft certification exam suitable for me.please help me.if anyone have idea.

Jasmine Nagrecha · Answer

Hi I have completed .net 3.5 track and i am MCPD certified. As per my knowledge 3.5 tracks are now closed. Exams have expired and even the upgrade path to 4.0 exams are expired. Put little efforts and learn things for 4.5 would be my recommendations. By that you secure yourself now and even for upcoming months. Regards Jasmine N

Munesh Sharma · Answer

The MTA is for people in school that are trying to determine if they want to be a programmer. If you already have experience in software engineering and know that's what you want to do then you don't need the MTA track. The MCAD and MCSD are for .NET 1.x which is something you want to stay away from. .NET 1.x is ten years old and uses a security model inferior to what was released in .NET 2.0. Also I wouldn't bother working on a legacy application that couldn't be updated past .NET 1.x. The MCTS certifications for .NET are what you should start with. Unless you have a need to work in .NET 2.0 and VS2005 I would advise taking the .NET 3.5/VS2008 track. The specialty of Windows desktop Web distributed etc. application development is for you to choose but I would favor Web (ASP.NET) development if you are looking for a .NET programming job. The MCPD is your ultimate goal. The MCPD certs build on the MCTS certs. Once again I would suggest favoring the .NET 3.5 an ASP.NET tracks.