Upgraded your MCSE?

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The truth is the upgrade exams are bitches

 

Yes that is the case

 

Quoted for Truth. What upgrade exam is not?

Yes, I have upgraded, am currently upgrading, and will continue to upgrade in the future.

 

Confirming what Blue just said, the upgrade exams are combinations of other exams. For example, 292 is a combo of 290+291, and 296 is a combo of 293+294. From what I understand, 621 will be a combo of 620+622.

 

Well I am finally catching up on the 2003 upgrade path after family, work and real estate kept me away from it for several months.

A lot of 2000 certed folks dont want to get out of their comfort zones again - which is a shame. I think it boils down to already having the job and the MCSE is something they did prior to get the job.

I am hoping to go Linux and Cisco for awhile after the two upgrade exams...thats if I can do them quick enough.

 

I did the NT 4 MCSE from scratch
then did the upgrades to 2k (a Big mistake, it missed out so much stuff its not funny)
So i decided to do the full 2k3 track from scratch to cover those missed parts (still havnt bloody finished it yet), I will probably then upgrade to vista/longhorn as I feel the difference is not as revolutionary as NT4 to 2K was so it wont be as complicated a jump

 

I'm relatively certain that 70-623 is not a part of 70-621:

70-623 gets you the MCITP: Consumer Support Technician certification.
70-620 + 70-622 gets you the MCITP: Enterprise Support Technician certification.
70-621 + the old MCDST gets you the MCITP: Enterprise Support Technician certification.

Plus, if you look at the exam objectives, 620+622 map well to 621. 70-623 has many consumer-oriented portions that aren't on 70-621.

 

Not gone for the upgrade - due to doing a degree with the Open University. Might do it after my Masters??

 

I see what you're saying about the 3rd exam required for the MCITP: Enterprise Support Technician certification... but I don't think it will be 70-623, as passing 70-621 doesn't also give you the MCITP: Consumer Support Technician certification.

Congrats to Microsoft for making the new certification programs crystal clear! hah!

 

Update, Ken... it's definitely NOT the 70-623, but there is another exam coming:

From here:

...and the 70-620 exam being a 3rd exam, which is basically a prerequisite for either of the MCITP certifications.

 

That'd be interesting... and in my opinion, pretty justifiable.

Perhaps that's why they're revamping 70-621 in mid-beta... to add objectives for this mysterious 3rd exam. After all, their current objectives for 70-621 map cleanly to 70-620 and 70-622, and there aren't any objectives for Office on MS pages... yet. That's my guess, anyway.

Looking at the 70-624 page... it's not just Office anymore... looks like there's a lot of Vista stuff as well: