Certification Question

[JHeaton]

Hello, EduGeeks.

 

I just have a quick couple of questions with regards to some certification. I'm currently working towards an MCITP qualification and am just over half-way through the 70-640 (Configuring Windows Server 2008 Active Directory). The question I have is, how much more valued is the Enterprise Administrator certification over the Server Administrator one? Is it something that schools would be interested in seeing over the SA or would it not be worth doing, at least now? I'm not the most experienced and some of the stuff in 70-647 looks a bit beyond me at present, which leads me on to the next question.

 

If I was to pass the three necessary exams for the Server Administrator certification, then at a later date do the three I would have needed to do to get the Enterprise Administrator certification, does that upgrade my status or do I have to do any extra modules?

 

I'm on a fairly tight budget at the moment and because I'm funding this myself, I would be quite happy if the above was possible. It would allow me to complete the SA now, move on and then bump up to the EA when I was more experienced/better-paid.

 

Thanks in advance for any answers.

[Gatt]

From what I can tell, if you do SA, then you only need to do the remaining exams to get EA

 

EG:

 

70-640 & 70-642 get you the SA exam (alongwith 70-646

 

To Get Ea you need to do these:

 

70-643 & 70-647 (Regquired)

 

Then one of the following: 70-620, 70-680 or 70-681

 

Sorry for brief post but being harrased by a 3 year old!!

[strawberry]

Server administrator is probably more suited to your job, EA is looking after multiple domains. After the SA I'd look at the EDA rather than EA.

 

As a member of facultly at a school you may be able to get 50% discount and I think a free resit under the ms student policy

[JHeaton]

From what I can tell, if you do SA, then you only need to do the remaining exams to get EA

 

EG:

 

70-640 & 70-642 get you the SA exam (alongwith 70-646

 

To Get Ea you need to do these:

 

70-643 & 70-647 (Regquired)

 

Then one of the following: 70-620, 70-680 or 70-681

 

Sorry for brief post but being harrased by a 3 year old!!

 

Ah, I see. It would make sense to be able to do so. Thanks for the answer.

 

Server administrator is probably more suited to your job, EA is looking after multiple domains. After the SA I'd look at the EDA rather than EA.

 

As a member of facultly at a school you may be able to get 50% discount and I think a free resit under the ms student policy

 

Hmm, perhaps. One of the main reasons I was interested in the EA was the 70-643 and the fact that there was a desktop-related one in there, too. The one that looked really daunting (and as you say, probably less suitable) was the 70-647. I'm not sure what the EDA involves, I'll admit I haven't looked at that one, but I was thinking that after this starting point I'd look in to some Hyper-V stuff as I've been playing around with it over the past couple of days and it's awesome.

 

With regards to the discount, I don't think that it would apply as I don't work for a school/LA; I'm employed by a managed services company.

 

Thanks.

[strawberry]

If the managed services company is a MS partner then your qualifciations will help them achieve the partnership. Find out how you can associate your mcp id with them and get them to fund it. There are some good hyper v exams out there, and they lead to again to an MCITP , MCITP:VA

 

EDA is between the old MCDST and MCSA its how to get 7 working properly in a domain environment. the 680 exam is universally used and the 686 exam is to be honest pretty fun!.

[JHeaton]

Ah, I see.

 

To be honest, there's a specific reason I haven't already asked the company if funding can be provided for this one. I've completely avoided the subject since starting work on it. :/

 

I've had a quick look at the EDA on the Microsoft site and it does look interesting, so I've bookmarked it for further investigation once I've completed this block of studying. It should help as we're moving towards Server 2008/Windows 7 environments, although I'm not really sure how in-depth our work will be once the new full service is rolled out. What was in the 686 that made it fun?