Microsoft announces exams retiring in March

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Microsoft Learning: Microsoft Certification Exam Development

Exams to be retired
70-271
70-272
70-284
70-285
70-351
70-500
70-510
70-540
70-543
70-557
70-621
70-631

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tbgree00

The only real surprise for me is that they're retiring the bridge test from MCDST to MCITP:EST. We all knew the day would come when the MCDST itself would retire.

earweed

I'm actually looking for them to retire 70-620 sometime in the next year or 2 as Vista never really took off.

mikedisd2

Good to see 70-284 finally retire. I'll miss it though.

ipconfig.all

WOWOWO how come the MCITP vista certification based certifications are retiring wowowowoowow. I am shocked.

ajs1976

ipconfig.all wrote: »

WOWOWO how come the MCITP vista certification based certifications are retiring wowowowoowow. I am shocked.

I think it is just the upgrade exams. they did the same thing with the MCSE 2003 upgrade exams when the 2000 track retired. Although they did offer a grace period.

TheShadow

9 month notice so MCSE and MCSA continue on but MCDST dies. I am surprised to see them kill 7x-621 the upgrade for MCDST to MCITP:EST at the same time. Normally upgrades have been one cycle later. Maybe not enough people have taken it to bother keeping it around

ISA 2006 and Exchange 2003 gets killed also. That should force people off of it faster.

earweed

As for the 621 I think as soon as the Windows 7 upgrade became available that test started gathering dust.