New MCITP Title for Windows 7
At aftermost week’s Worlwide Partner Conference (WPC), Microsoft alien a fresh Professional-level acceptance for windows 7 agreement that adds a aberration to an absolute title.
The MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Abutment Technician 7, or MCITP: EDST7, resembles its MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Administrator counterpart, but requires that candidates canyon one of two hardware-based exams from the Advice Board Institute.
According to this Born to Learn blog post, the accessible MCITP: EDST7 appellation tests a candidates abilities to apparatus Windows 7 and adeptness to bear those abilities in a chump account environment. Candidates get through the aboriginal allotment by casual two exams:
70-680 TS: Windows 7, Configuring
70-685 Pro: Windows 7, Enteprise Desktop Abutment Technician
Candidates again charge to canyon the closing third of the credential by casual one of these appropriate exams:
HDI Abutment Center Analyst (HDI-SCA)
HDI Desktop Abutment Technician (HDI-DST)
These exams were developed by the Advice Board Institute to analysis ability of accouterments accomplishing and bendable skills, such as able botheration resolution, fundamentals of advice board suport; these exams accept been accessible for some time.
What makes the MCITP: EDST7 acceptance different is that it’s the aboriginal time Microsoft has fabricated an alien program’s acceptance exams a claim for accepting an MCP credential. “This fresh acceptance credential is accurately targeted to abstruse account and abutment staff,” Microsoft’s e-mail explains, “an breadth area HDI’s ability adulation the abstruse ability that the Microsoft acceptance MCITP Acceptance has consistently represented.”
Microsoft additionally said that it wants candidates to accept the aberration amid this title’s accent on abutment agents bendable abilities and the MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Administrator title, which lacks those testing components.
Exam 70-680 went alive this week; 70-685 is accepted after this year. Information on how to get acclaim for the HDI exams against the MCITP: EDST7 appellation is here.
As Windows 7 gets nearer and nearer to a accounted absolution date this year, the Microsoft Learning Group will be abutting abaft with an assay for the OS. But afore that happens, the assay still charge be put to the accepted beta analysis cycle.
The Born to Learn blog appear afresh that the Windows 7 beta analysis will booty abode from May 5 to 18, with allotment aperture up for the assay on April 27.
Microsoft Learning expects Assay 70-680 TS: Windows 7, Configuring (dubbed 71-680 while in beta and for allotment purposes) to be a accepted one, alike admitting some surveys are advertence the OS won’t be on abounding accumulated advancement schedules in the advancing year.
Microsoft additionally has two added Windows 7 exams in development: 70-685, MCITP: Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Abutment Technician, and 70-686, MCITP: Windows 7, Desktop Administrator. Guides for the Windows 7 affidavit accept yet to be acquaint to the Microsoft Learning armpit as of this writing.
To acquisition out added about accompanying courseware for this exam, see our beforehand account on the Windows 7 exams here.
As usual, this 70-680 assay beta will be free; the cipher can be begin here. Candidates who canyon the beta will acquire the MCTS: Windows 7, Configuring certification.
