Worth doing MCITP:SA after MCITP:EA ?

teejay01

Hi,
I have recently upgraded my MCSE 2003 to MCITP:Enterprise Administrator and following that have just completed the three exams for MCITP:Enterprise Messaging Administrator. I am now looking for something new to concentrate on and was wondering if people feel there is any worth in doing the MCITP:SA as well?

Thanks

Tim

Mishra

I wouldn't do it unless you notice that searches for :SA on job seeking sites are coming up just as or close to in numbers as the :EA.

HeroPsycho

I suppose it wouldn't take you very long to do since you've already studied most everything on that exam.

With that said, once I pass 70-647, I'm not bothering. But then again, I don't think I'd be interested in a job that wants MCITP: SA at this stage in my career anyway.

royal

I won't be doing SA.

Slowhand

If you've got the MCSE, MCITP: Enterprise Administrator, and MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator certs, it's fair to say that you've got a pretty deep level of Microsoft-related knowledge. I'd say you've got three options: either go for something like a master or architect-level certification on Server 2008 or Exchange 2007, begin studying another Microsoft technology, or move in a different direction altogether.

What's your experience with networking technologies, with Linux/Unix, with other mail servers? Depending on your level of experience and interest, it might be a good time to look at something like the CCNA or even RHCE, for example. Hope this helps, and best of luck to you in your studies.

teejay01

Thanks for the input guys, I don't think I will both with the exam for MCITP:SA. I would really like to move on and become a VMware VCP but the £2500 fee for the mandatory course is a bit of a killer!

TravR1

It depends on your goals. I would say it's beneficial, as with any other certification. From what I've been hearing from everyone else is that the SA is different from the EA. So going off that I wouldn't think there would be any back tracking.

cisahoveka

it is not worth in doing the MCITP:SA when you already have the MCITP:EA

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