Microsoft Exam Retirements 2008 And 2009

The official announcement about the March 2009 exam retirements I talked about earlier–including the MCDBA, MCAD, and MCSD exams–has been posted here. You have one year to finish up any of those exams, and a year to complete your MCDBA, MCAD, or MCSD, if you’re worguide towards any of those. We’ll start our year of reminders about this, please help by telling people you know.

Developer exams retiring on March 31, 2009
Exam 70-300: Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures
Exam 70-301: Managing, Organizing, and Delivering IT Projects by Using Microsoft Solutions Framework 3.0
Exam 70-305: Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Exam 70-306: Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Exam 70-310: Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework
Exam 70-315: Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Exam 70-316: Developing and Implementing Windows-based Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Exam 70-320: Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual C# and the Microsoft .NET Framework
Exam 70-330: Implementing Security for Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
Exam 70-340: Implementing Security for Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET
Microsoft SQL Server exams retiring on March 31, 2009
Exam 70-228: Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition
Exam 70-229: Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition

Yesterday was March 31, 2008, the retirement date for 22 Windows Server 2000 exams and some other stuff. That info has been updated here.

Andy commented about an extension to the retirement date for exams 70-292 and 70-296, and I know many of you have heard this elsewhere. Hmm. We are not extending the retirement date; there is no guarantee of availability of those exams after yesterday, March 31. What you’re hearing about is a grace period that is in affect now, strictly for the purpose of helping our customers who are freaguide out about missing the deadline or legitimately didn’t know about it. We are not promoting this, the idea is only to have a little room for customers who need it.

This just in, we actually prefer happy customers.

This also just in, those exams have been out for five years, and we’ve been announcing this retirement for more than a year, and as of yesterday we can’t make any promises. We (corp Microsoft) aren’t promoting this ‘grace period,’ but the helpdesks would have told/will tell you about it if you contact them about one of those exams, and it is referenced on this page as of yesterday: “Please contact Prometric to find remaining dates and times…there is no guarantee of availability after March 31.”

Here is a response I sent to a customer who was mad that we are retiring 70-292 and 70-296. Maybe you’d like to see it too.

We create upgrade exams in recognition and appreciation of Microsoft customers who keep building their skills on Microsoft’s new technologies (i.e. who keep their certifications current). We know many customers really appreciate the upgrade path but it is not a given–the path makes most sense to customers who are fresh on the last release. These exams have now been available for five years

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