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Confused about MCAD and MCSD
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| Can someone clear this up for me. I'm a little confused about the
difference between MCAD and MCSD. I think that you need a total of 3 exams
to be MCAD certified. Then an additional 1 exam to be MCSD certified. But
then I read or hear things which suggest MCAD is a totally separate thing to
MCSD altogether and there's no relation between them. What's it all about?
How do the two relate? How many exams do you need for each?
Thanks
Owen
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| Adam Wood [MVP] 2003-04-02, 2:23 pm |
| In article <eNnD0sP#CHA.1776@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>, spam@spam.com says...
> Can someone clear this up for me. I'm a little confused about the
> difference between MCAD and MCSD. I think that you need a total of 3 exams
> to be MCAD certified. Then an additional 1 exam to be MCSD certified. But
> then I read or hear things which suggest MCAD is a totally separate thing to
> MCSD altogether and there's no relation between them. What's it all about?
> How do the two relate? How many exams do you need for each?
It's 3 exams for MCAD, 5 for MCSD. They definitely are related -- read:
http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/mcp/mcad/compare.asp [which compares the
two]
Which is right for you depends on what you actually do / want to do within
the development food chain.
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Adam Wood
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| Michael Domingo 2003-04-15, 12:23 am |
| The certs are related, but there is a distinction in the MCSD in that it
does require passage of a key exam, 70-200, Analyzing Requirements and
Defining Solution Architectures (in the case of the new MCSD.NET track, it's
70-300...Defining .NET Solution Architectures). Microsoft says it created
the MCAD after doing a job-task analysis that showed that the majority of
programmers/coders are not necessarily involved in the development or design
(aka architecting) of software/development projects. The MCAD indicates the
level of responsibility in which those programmers/coders are mainly
responsible for creating components or objects.
From a certification standpoint, the architecture exam is the difference
between the two. You can use the same exams from your completion of the MCAD
to move up to the MCSD.
Michael Domingo, Editor
MCPmag.com
"Adam Wood [MVP]" <adam@adamwood.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.18f54e0a252f34fb9896bb@msnews.microsoft.com...
> In article <eNnD0sP#CHA.1776@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>, spam@spam.com says...
> > Can someone clear this up for me. I'm a little confused about the
> > difference between MCAD and MCSD. I think that you need a total of 3
exams
> > to be MCAD certified. Then an additional 1 exam to be MCSD certified.
But
> > then I read or hear things which suggest MCAD is a totally separate
thing to
> > MCSD altogether and there's no relation between them. What's it all
about?
> > How do the two relate? How many exams do you need for each?
>
> It's 3 exams for MCAD, 5 for MCSD. They definitely are related -- read:
> http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/mcp/mcad/compare.asp [which compares
the
> two]
>
> Which is right for you depends on what you actually do / want to do within
> the development food chain.
>
> --
> Adam Wood
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