Future Value of MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Support Technician on Windows 7

Carl_S_901

I start my final semester at a local community college next week and will be taking two classes that are aligned with Microsoft exams. I have both books already and both are tagged with exam numbers. (70-680 and 70-685) One of the books is actually a Microsoft Official Academic Course textbook and the other is by a 3rd party.

I looked up these exam numbers on Microsoft's site and found that passing these two exams results in:

MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Support Technician on Windows 7

I also noticed that the exams are retired on July 31, 2013.

I never would have looked into these MS certs but being that I am taking the classes it makes sense to at least consider attempting them at the end.

However, being that I know little about MS certs, I question the value of this certification.

Is this worth getting? Will it continue to have value in the near future?

Thoughts?

neathneathneath

I would take the exams as I think its a worthwhile qualification.

Who knows what the future will bring so I would bag these certs now.

If you are doing the courses, a bit more hard work towards the exams would be a bonus and you would have something to show for your time / efforts.

ptilsen

Yes, this certification is worth having. I would not advise anyone begin studying them now, but since you will be studying them anyway, you might as well take the effort to get the certifications. They would round out your existing certifications very nicely.