Introduction to certification
The MCITP is meant as a Microsoft certified IT professional. After attaining this certification, the candidate will get the qualifications and skills to
successfully perform the particular IT job roles and responsibilities including database developer. The MCITP builds, especially on the skills measured in
a MCTS, hence the candidate can gain 1 or more MCTS certifications on the path to becoming the Microsoft certified IT professionals. This certification
helps the candidate to manage day to day task in a better manner and also provides sufficient capability to troubleshoot the issue in a short period of
time.
Certification qualifies for what Job roles?
This MCITP certification proves that the candidate has the comprehensive set of skills to do a specific job roles such as enterprise messaging
administrator or database administrator.
The MCITP certification will assist the candidate to demonstrate and develop the skills and knowledge in working with server 2008 and prepare the candidate
for various job roles such as:
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Network administrator
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Windows server administrator
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Monitoring operator
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Server system administrator
Benefit of this certification
Beyond the abilities to configure, troubleshoot and install Microsoft technologies, this MCITP can make the organization as well as technology decisions
required to ensure successful Microsoft products implementations and deployments. The certified professional can able to reap about $78000 to $99000 as
their salary. It will vary based on experience and location.
The Microsoft certified IT professional certification is one of the Microsoft credentials which offer IT professionals with the simpler and targeted
framework to show their professional and technical skills.
Certification pathway
The Pathway for the Microsoft MCITP certifications are as follows:
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MCITP: Database Developer 2008
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MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Administrator on Windows 7
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MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Support Technician on Windows 7
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MCITP: Enterprise Administrator on Windows Server 2008
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MCITP: Virtualization Administrator on Windows Server 2008 R2
While preparing for this certification, the candidate will get how to monitor servers, implement the auditing policy, configure the server, handle software
updates and distribution, troubleshoot servers, perform planned vulnerability assessment scans and handle the daily management of the file structure,
directory services and server OS. This certification gets qualified easier for the IT professionals to attain internationally recognized certification
which displays their skills. Each certification specialization is consists of the number of targeted MCTS exams and also final MCITP exam will bring all
the required skills and knowledge together resulting in the professional level of certification.
Prerequisites of this certification
For the MCITP, the required exams will vary based on the technology, but need a combination of PRO and TS level exams. Most of the MCITP certifications are
available and it only requires 2 or 3 exams, but some needs 5 or more than that. This MCITP certification also builds on the combination of the Microsoft
certified technology specialist recommended prerequisite which will allow the candidate to develop the knowledge and technical skills and helps to perform
the their job role and responsibilities.
Required exams / associated exams
Where the specialist level of the MCTS certifications validates the candidate skills with the help of Microsoft technology, then the professional level of
the MCITP certification confirms the professional skills in an entire IT job role, across non Microsoft technologies and multiple Microsoft technologies.
This certification is still based on earlier versions of the
The candidate pursuing a MCITP certification for the windows server 2008 can select between 2 certification tracks such as MCITP - enterprise administrator
as well as MCITP - server administrator.
Microsoft technology and the MCITP certifications will decline in the value as more companies move into new versions of the Microsoft products. Most of the
MCITP certifications may be withdrawn by 31st July 2014. Re-certification is not necessary for this certification, as companies moving into the
new technology and it is less relevant to the current technology. But as of now this MCITP certification is still valuable in a market and also will remain
valuable as long as the companies using the technologies covered in this certification.
Exam Costs
Each certification exam cost may vary from location to location as well as service providers. In such a way, it will cost about $80 per paper.
Recertification requires for every 3 years for this exam.
Study Materials:
To help the candidate to achieve in the MCITP certifications, many vendors developed a different variety of tools for the preparation. It includes, web
self study, offline materials or resources. Some of the vendors also providing free online demos as well as resources.
