MCITP Three Year Rule 2

[Skittle]

Does the three year rule of passing an MCTS exam to keep your MCITP apply to SQL server database administrator as well as the other variations?

On the Microsoft page describing MCITP database administrator, it is strangely abscent.

Dazed and confused

 

[mrdenny]

From what I understand it does.

Denny
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[porkchopexpress]

I'm not aware of the three year rule does it mean you have to refresh ever three years?

 

[mrdenny]

Yep. At the moment certs expire after a few years so that you have to get recertified on the new product version.

Denny
MCSA (2003) / MCDBA (SQL 2000)
MCTS (SQL 2005 / Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Configuration / Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Configuration)
MCITP Database Administrator (SQL 2005) / Database Developer (SQL 2005)

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[porkchopexpress]

Update.

In our initial communications about the Professional Series certifications, we announced that a "refresh" or recertification of the MCITP and MCPD credentials would be required within three years. This policy has changed. To address the needs of our worldwide customer base, the updated policy is to retire a certification when mainstream support for the related technology retires

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/newgen/lifecycle/default.mspx

 

[mrdenny]

Thank god. The old policy sucked.

Denny
MCSA (2003) / MCDBA (SQL 2000)
MCTS (SQL 2005 / Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Configuration / Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Configuration)
MCITP Database Administrator (SQL 2005) / Database Developer (SQL 2005)

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[Skittle]

Confused....does this mean that the certifications are back to the old style. In other words the exams retire so you can't take them but the certifications do not get dropped from your transcript?



Dazed and confused

 

[Skittle]

Ohhhh hang on. Missed the other hread and the link on this one.

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1458367&page=1

That is a big relief. I have to admit I have been considering packing up certifications because of the three year rule. Although it was little different from the need to keep up to date anyway, I still felt it was giving me less room to manover. I do certifications when there are quiet project periods and it varies when I can keep up to date.






Dazed and confused

 

[porkchopexpress]

Yep it would of been a real pain having to re-cert on the old platform around the same time (in theory) that the new platform would be released.

Of course if it had been one fairly 'cheap' straight forward exam to check you hadn't developed amnesia it might be ok but i bet it would of been full price. Imagine getting caught out on a coulpe of 'those' MS questions (you know the ones) and failing the refresh :-(

 

[mrdenny]

Yeah, the refresh was starting to scare me. The dates on my SQL 2005 certs are mostly before the actual exams were released to the public, so based on that date and the dates when the SQL 2008 exams are expected to be RTM, I was going to have to renew my certs for about a 3 month period so that I could then upgrade them to the SQL 2008 certs. Cash wise, that was going to suck.

Denny
MCSA (2003) / MCDBA (SQL 2000)
MCTS (SQL 2005 / Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Configuration / Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Configuration)
MCITP Database Administrator (SQL 2005) / Database Developer (SQL 2005)

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