What was your first Microsoft certification?

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70-73 - Windows NT Workstation

By God I'm old!

 

70-272 - Supporting Users and Troubleshooting Desktop Applications on a Microsoft Windows XP Operating System

 

70-073 Implementing and Supporting NT™ 4.0 Workstation Oct 27, 1999

 

70-271 Supporting Users and Troubleshooting a Microsoft® Windows® XP Operating System which I passed on 30th May 2008.

Seems like an absolute age ago.

 

Yay!

Another old-timer

Can't find my transcript, or date, or certificate (or anything else, for that matter!) but it was in either September or October 1998

 

70-270 XP MCP...failed it on the first attempt, then passed on the 2nd attempt!

 

Ditto - I feel like a teenager again

70-290: Managing and Maintaining A Windows Server 2003 Environment here was my first MS Cert.

Technically just prior to that I gained the Lancaster University Certificate in Microsoft Technologies (coursework testing of 70-290,70-291,70-293,70-294, not an MS approved thing but recognised by the education department for use towards a foundation degree (already held my Manchester Uni one so it wasn't as useful for me as for others there).

Company I worked for needed the MCP for Partner status, I studied the rest of the MCSE core courses @ ICTFocus @ Lancs Uni, good deal on all four courses at the time, but only got around to taking the first exam, now sorting out the rest as I realise the mistake.

 

70-271 was my first exam, up until the beginning of 2009 when i started to take certs seriously, i actually thought that the only Microsoft certs were MCSA and MCSE...

 

I went a bit backwards
my first exam was NT 4.0 Server in the Enterprise, (Workstation was the third one I sat)

 

70-270 in 2005. Well scary. Passed, by the skin of my teeth first time.

 

Same as you Ken 70-210, and i got a 980, if I recall correctly

 

Nah, just a legend.


Mine was the 70-290 back in December 2005 and again in February 2006.

 

Again!? Didn't forget that you'd done it or something did you?

 

70-291 for me.

 

Same here, mine was 70-271, although I am still young unlike you JK. Although with all that Botox, Face Peels, cremes you use and whatever else, you look about 12.

 

I was reading a survey the other day about pirated OS' and it was something like 43% of all those that voted said they had got theirs from torrents, bought a technet license off someone or some other illegal method.