Heads up on 2008 certification exam retirements

...as announced in our March Live Meeting on server certifications, Microsoft Learning will be retiring a set of exams in one year (on March 30, 2008). The retirement list will be posted on microsoft.com later this month; in the meantime here is the info we shared in the Live Meeting, plus an additional set of exams from other older technologies that will be retiring. There should be 22 exams in the list, all of which have been out for years (and years and years). Feel free to post questions in advance of the formal list going live.

•  70-292: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSA Certified on Windows 2000 
• 70-296: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSE Certified on Windows 2000 
• 70-232: Implementing and Maintaining Highly Available Web Solutions with Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server Technologies and Microsoft® Application Center 2000 
• 70-210: Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional 
• 70-214: Implementing and Managing Security in a Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure 
• 70-215: Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server 
• 70-216: Implementing and Administering a Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Network Infrastructure 
• 70-217: Implementing and Administering a Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure 
• 70-218: Managing a Windows 2000 Network Environment 
• 70-219: Designing a Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure 
• 70-220: Designing Security for a Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Network 
• 70-221: Designing a Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Network Infrastructure 
• 70-226: Designing Highly Available Web Solutions with Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server Technologies

Other exams retiring next year...

• 70-222: Migrating from Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0 to Microsoft® Windows® 2000 
• 70-244: Supporting and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows NT® Server 4.0 Network 
•  70-224: Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft® Exchange 2000 Server
• 70-225: Designing and Deploying a Messaging Infrastructure with Microsoft® Exchange 2000 Server
•  70-223: Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft® Clustering Services by Using Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server
• 70-234: Designing and Implementing Solutions with Microsoft® Commerce Server 2000
•  70-230: Designing and Implementing Solutions with Microsoft® BizTalk Server 2000, Enterprise Edition
•  70-227: Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft® Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, Enterprise Edition
• 70-086: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft® Systems Management Server 2.0

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 20, 2007
  I meant poast, of coaurse.

• Anonymous
  April 20, 2007
  This 22 numbers let me remember some of my happy memories, long time ago...

• Anonymous
  April 20, 2007
  So effectively retiring the Windows 2000 MCSE and MCSA track?

• Anonymous
  April 20, 2007
  Uhh, I need to speed up my MCSA/MCSE w2k-w2k3 upgrade process.

• Anonymous
  April 22, 2007
  Thank goodness I completed my 2k route already :) -ken

• Anonymous
  April 22, 2007
  Does an exam retiring simply mean it can't be done any more? ie. I have completed 70-210 as an elective to my MCSE 2003 does this mean I need to upgrade to say the equivalent exam in Vista or XP or will it still be my MCSE in 2003 still be valid post 2008 ? Cheers, Ian

• Anonymous
  April 23, 2007
  The exam is no longer available for testing--certifications achieved using the retired exams are still valid.

• Anonymous
  April 23, 2007
  Here is the official announcement. http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcpexams/status/examstoretire.mspx

• Anonymous
  March 30, 2008
  The updgrade exams 70-292 and 70-296 have been extended until May 24, 2008.