Re: certification for vc++

From: Igor Tandetnik (itandetnik_at_mvps.org)
Date: 11/04/04


Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 11:10:34 -0500


"Saravana Vijayan.B" <bsvijayan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> i want to know the certifications for vc++
> what are the microsoft certification for vc++ ?
> please clarify about mcp and mcse

Microsoft offers several certification tracks. Each track involves a
series of exams targeted at different areas of expertise. Once you pass
all the exams in a track, you get the certificate. Here's the list of
all the tracks:

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/default.asp

As soon as you pass your first exam - any exam at all - you are given an
MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) certificate. It is yours to keep
regardless of whether you complete any track or not.

MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) track is not actually for
software developers. It's for people who build complete systems out of
existing Microsoft solutions.

For programmers, there's MCAD (Microsoft Certified Application
Developer) and MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solution Developer) tracks.
Exams needed for MCAD are a subset of those for MCSD, so you can get
MCAD and later progress on to MCSD.

The sad thing is, C++ exams are not being offered anymore. If you want
to get MCAD or MCSD, you have to choose C# or VB.NET.

-- 
With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, 
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right 
answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of 
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles 
Babbage 


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