SharePoint Certification

 

Update (yet again)… Microsoft has updated the  “Skill Measured” sections on two more of the SharePoint 2010 exams. See here:   70-667 and  70-668

Update (again)… Microsoft has updated the  “Skill Measured” sections on two of the SharePoint 2010 exams. See here:   70-573 and  70-576

Update… Microsoft has posted some news on the SharePoint 2010 Exams… but still no links or date. They do state that there are no “upgrade” exams for those who already have the 2007 certs.  See here.

 

Below is a list of the SharePoint exams, the certification you get from the exam and classes to prepare for the exam. Both SharePoint 2007 and 2010 have two exam paths with two exams each. Each of the 2007 exams have hyperlinks to details on Microsoft.com. I will update the 2010 links when they are available.

 

SharePoint 2007

 

Exam	Cert	Microsoft Official Curriculum:
70-631	MCTS:Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuring	5060A: Implementing Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (2 Days) or 6438A: Implementing and Administering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in Windows Server 2008 (2 Days)
70-630	MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Configuration	5061A: Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (3 Days)
70-541	MCTS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Application Development	None from Microsoft. I recommend: MA-1038  (I wrote it!)   Follow my progress in preparing for this exam here.   Are you already 2007 certified? If not, see here,
70-542	MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Application Development	None from Microsoft. I recommend: MA-1038  (I wrote it!)

 

 

SharePoint 2010

These exams will not be available until summer (July 12th?) 2010.

(I get a kick out of the “brain dump” sites that are already advertising “dumps” and “actual test questions” for exams that don’t exist yet!)

Links are not available yet to official MS Pages. All of the following may change…

Exam	Cert	Microsoft Official Curriculum:
70-667	TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring	10174 - Configuring and Managing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Will cover configuration of SharePoint 2010 including deployment, upgrade, management, and operation on a server farm.
70-668	PRO: SharePoint 2010, Administrator	10231A - Configuring and Managing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Will cover advanced SharePoint 2010 topics including capacity planning, topology designing, and performance tuning.
70-573	TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development	10175A Developing and Customizing Applications for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Five-day instructor-led course designed for developers with six months or more of .NET development experience. Course covers what you need to know to be an effective member of a SharePoint development team using Visual Studio 2010.
70-576	PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications	10232A - Designing Applications for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Five-day instructor-led training course designed for development team leads who have already passed the Developing on SharePoint 2010 technical specialist exam. The course covers choosing technologies for and scoping a SharePoint project, best practices for SharePoint development, configuring a SharePoint development environment, advanced use of SharePoint developer features, and debugging of code in a SharePoint project.

 

70-667 + 70-668 will get you SharePoint 2010 MCITP (Microsoft Certified IT Professional). (according to here)

70-573 + 70-576 will get you SharePoint 2010 MCPD (Microsoft Certified Professional Developer). (according to here)