MTA: Microsoft Technology Associate exams

What is everyone feelings on these exams? I did not know they existed until my professor said he had some free codes. Not that I really need them, I took the networking one last night since it was free. Seems like an easy copy cat of the Comptia Network+.

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veritas_libertas

odysseyelite wrote: »

What is everyone feelings on these exams? I did not know they existed until my professor said he had some free codes. Not that I really need them, I took the networking one last night since it was free. Seems like an easy copy cat of the Comptia Network+.

Pretty much useless...

rogue2shadow

veritas_libertas wrote: »

Pretty much useless...

1+ unfortunately.

JBrown

Our Microsoft Rep, had no idea what MTA is when we asked him about it. I am guessing it still alive here and there or its not that popular with MS itself and they stopped really pushing it to schools.

earweed

It's possible it may get pushed out to some high schools or something.
I don't see much interest in them though.

veritas_libertas

earweed wrote: »

It's possible it may get pushed out to some high schools or something.
I don't see much interest in them though.

Maybe. I know of High School students with MCP certs so I just don't see that happening either. I think MS is trying to fill a niche that is already filled by CompTIA.

NinjaBoy

odysseyelite wrote: »

What is everyone feelings on these exams? I did not know they existed until my professor said he had some free codes. Not that I really need them, I took the networking one last night since it was free. Seems like an easy copy cat of the Comptia Network+.

The MTA exams are very new so it's no wonder that not many people have heard of them. IMO, it's not so much a copy cat, but Microsoft's own version (Server Fundamental's = A+, Network Fundamental's = Network+, Security Fundamental's = Security+) geared up towards MS's own technology (rather than Comptia being vendor neutral).

We recently had the opportunity to delivery the MTA exams out and found them to give good basic grounding - especially for those that have never sat a MS exam before and/or those that wanted to get into IT.

Out of the 4 people in my department who sat the exams: Server, Network & Security fundamentals - 2 people passed 3 exams without studying (myself and the senior tech, granted we already have higher level MS certs). The next two had approx 1 week to study for and sit the exams: 1 person failed 1 exam (the Network one) but re-sat and passed the second time around (passed the other two with no problems) and 1 person failed 3 exams (2 x Network and 1 x security), however passed the server one first time around and the security one on the re-sit.

-Ken

Hypntick

I would like to sit the server one. Just so I can get the basic server stuff down before diving into 70-640.

N2IT

veritas_libertas wrote: »

Maybe. I know of High School students with MCP certs so I just don't see that happening either. I think MS is trying to fill a niche that is already filled by CompTIA.

+1

That is the impression I am getting.

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DoubleD

hypntick wrote: »

i would like to sit the server one. Just so i can get the basic server stuff down before diving into 70-640.

this!!!

DoubleD

I got the chance to do some of thease today got a leaflet about it
I decided Will give it a miss too much money for what it is and a bit of a waste of my time. Im gunning for the Windows 7 Exams and need to spend my time on that.