Certification is required for organization to keep its partner status with Microsoft, and is good to refresh your knowledge, however a lot of questions there are irrelevant to your real knowledge.
I sat SL4 exam recently, nothing specific what I would not use in everyday work, thus I reckon recent MS exams are quite good and are not very "artificial" Michael Nemtsev Microsoft MVP B: <http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour> http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour S: <http://www.sharepoint-sandbox.com> http://www.sharepoint-sandbox.com From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Walker Sent: Thursday, 11 November 2010 2:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OT] Usefulness of Microsoft Certifications Hi everyone, the developers at our work are just looking at doing our MCPD for .net 4 and were wondering if anyone has any input or insight on the usefulness of these certifications? I currently have a MCAD (.net 1.1 - assuming its still valid) and I honestly don't know if it helped me beyond ticking some recruiters boxes. Have they changed much? Are there any other industry certifications, perhaps independent ones, which are held in higher regard? Also has anyone done the exam on Silverlight development? Is that any good? Thanks heaps in advance, Dave Walker
