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Sure, blowing off four Win2K exams with one accelerated test sounds great. But do you have what it takes to pass the feared 70-240 test? Sure, it sounds like a great idea at first. Pass Microsoft Exam 70-240: Microsoft Windows 2000 Accelerated Exam for MCPs certified on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, and you get to skip four, that’s right, four Windows 2000 exams. “Sign me up!” you say? Not so fast...
The confusion began late last year when Microsoft announced that its certifications would not be retired. Now, some three months later, many questions have been ironed out regarding Microsoft's revamped cert program. However, one area of uncertainty still exists: What’s the proper way to list your credentials if you earned Windows NT certifications and don’t want to mislead others into believing you’re a Windows 2000 MCSE?
From the time of the announcement, Microsoft has said that IT professionals could differentiate between their certifications by stating that they're an MCSE on Windows NT 4.0 or an MCSE on Windows 2003. But that can quickly become a logistical problem. Just think how long my e-mail signature would run if I listed all my certifications in such a manner: David Noel-Davies Network+, MCP on Windows XP, MCP+I on Windows NT 4.0, MCSE on Windows 2000, MCSA on Windows 2003
It's last call. Reminder that we are coming up on the final days of 22 exams, some of which will have been in market for more than eight years, bless their hearts.
As Microsoft has been announcing over the last year, these are going away--if you wanted to add any of the list below to your transcript, use to complete a Windows Server 2000 track, or use the upgrade path from Windows Server 2000 to 2003 (exams 70-292 and/or 70-296) you need to act very fast. Retiring exams fall in to these categories:
Windows Server 2000
Windows NT 4.0
Exchange Server 2000
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Top two reasons not to freak out
When the exams retire, they will stay on your transcript to show your complete certification history.
If you have completed a certification and one of the underlying exams retires, nothing happens to your certification, it is yours to keep.
