Architect Series
The Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) certification is the pinnacle of Microsoft certification. Eligibility into the program first requires Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) certification in a relevant product. Candidates must then be reviewed and approved by Microsoft to be entered into the program.
Accepted candidates must prepare a work history dossier, architectural solution case study, and a document that demonstrates the relevance of their skills and work experience. Following that, candidates must attend a 4-hour Review Board interview, which consists of at least two MCAs. The candidate must make a 30-minute presentation to the board, and then be able to successfully defend the quality and viability of the case study against questions from the board.
Currently available MCA Certifications
- MCA: Microsoft Exchange Server
- MCA: Microsoft SQL Server
- MCA: Windows Server: Directory
- MCA: Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Other MCA Certifications available soon
- MCA: Microsoft Office Communications Server
Previously, Microsoft also offered two "broad" MCA certifications that focused on using a variety of Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies to deliver customer solutions. However, effective May 1, 2010 Microsoft discontinued these certifications in favor of the Microsoft-centric MCA programs.
Discontinued MCA Certifications
- MCA: Infrastructure
- MCA: Solutions
Read more about this topic: Microsoft Certified Professional, Latest MCP Certifications
Famous quotes containing the words architect and/or series:
“It was always the work that was the gyroscope in my life. I don’t know who could have lived with me. As an architect you’re absolutely devoured. A woman’s cast in a lot of roles and a man isn’t. I couldn’t be an architect and be a wife and mother.”
—Eleanore Kendall Pettersen (b. 1916)
“A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)