Arggggghhhh - New MSF Exam
Months ago I blogged about this with useful links about MSF. I did plan to take the exam end of this year after I completed my thesis, which still on going. But today, I got to learn about the current 074-100 MSF Practitioner Exam expired yesterday ! The new exam 07-031 will be out this Nov 2004 :(
Arggggggghhhhhhhhhh.... Lucky I haven't started any revision on the course yet :) Anyway, with strong relationship together with VS 2005 Team System, MSF v4 will be out soon. I still can't find any official page at Microsoft.com yet, but here's a posting in MSF newsgroup.
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Exam 074-100 (MSF Practitioner Exam) is retiring today, July 28th
The current MSF Practitioner Exam (074-100) will retire today on July 28, 2004. In order to be eligible to teach course 1846A after December 31, 2004, you will be required to pass the new MCP Exam 070-301 in addition to becoming an MCT with MSF competency.
The MSF Practitioner "endorsement" will expire on December 31st 2004. This means an MSF Practitioner will no longer be able to deliver course 1846a through Certified Partners for Learning Solutions after Dec 31st, unless they upgrade with (pass) the new exam.
Any one planning to deliver MSF training to customers after December 31st 2004 is encouraged to start working towards MCP certification and passing the new MSF exam.
New Exam 070-301(Managing, Organizing, and Delivering IT Projects by Using the Microsoft® Solutions Framework 3.0) available
We are pleased to announce that a new MCP Exam, 070-301, will be introduced in November 2004, as an elective exam for the MCSD and MCSE tracks. This exam is 070-301: Managing, Organizing, and Delivering IT Projects by Using the Microsoft® Solutions Framework 3.0
Many of you already have experience in applying MSF in IT projects. This new exam evaluates experience and application of MSF in real-world scenarios. The MSF team has received consistent feedback from many MSF Practioners expressing dissatisfaction about passing 74-100 and the results not appearing on their MCP transcript. We are addressing the dissatisfaction issue by launching this new exam 70-301. The new exam will leverage Microsoft Learning infrastructure and program to facilitate, MCP transcripts & reporting, and provide industry recognition.
When will the 070-301 exam be offered? The MCP Beta Exam period for 070-301 is scheduled for August 25th-Sep 8th.We will be offering the new exam (at the beta stage) to all existing MSF Practioners for free and an invitation will be forthcoming soon.
Will there be a refresher exam based on MSF v4.0 and Visual Studio 2005?
MSF will be a competency in the MCT 2005 program. MSF4.0 exam plans will be announced in the Visual Studio 2005 release timeframe, mid 2005.
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Note, v4 will only be out together with VS 2005, which is targated at 2005. Looks like it is better to put on hold this paper till then :).
For more information about MSF and Team System, try http://www.microsoft.com/msf/ which is redirected to MSDN Visual Studio site.