MCTS: Your Certificate To Manage Technology Solutions

How about a certification which allows you to get certified to troubleshoot any errors with a Microsoft product or a technology? How about a certification which allows you to implement and build projects on some Microsoft platforms? If these two questions have raised your eyebrows a bit, then you must seriously consider going for a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist certification.

Candidates who get certified in Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist get a free leeway (almost) to display their cutting-edge skills in implementing, design and troubleshooting. The MCTS Certification is available for the below mentioned skill-sets:

  • Microsoft® Project 2007
  • Enterprise Applications with Microsoft technology
  • .NET Framework with the Web and Windows Applications
  • Exchange Server Management

The addition of Windows Share-point Services and Windows Vista in to the list of certifications, makes MCTS as an enviable certification to aim for. Enviable, because even before you decide which path you need to take, it acts like a guide.

With domains so varied and technologies inherently so different, it is extremely important that you make the right choice. Obviously, the same thumb rule before you decide on your course. Know what you are doing and know what you want to do. If you have answered both these questions affirmatively, you are on the way to get your certification alright. While your certification in Microsoft Project 2007 allows you to staff, track time, coordinate staff in your organization, certification in SQL Server 2005 allows you to develop business intelligence solutions for your business. If that was not proof enough to sample the varied nature of the certification, read this. Certification in SharePoint Server 2007 allows you to build portals and effectively combine your already existing business systems into the .NET Framework.

You can get almost all of these project based certifications based on your performance in one examination. If you have the skills in the core area which you have chosen as your subject, this should not be tough either.

All in all, with variety as the name of the game and Microsoft wanting to continuously improve with the technologies it offers for certifications, MCTS is necessarily a certificate that every IT professional must consider in his bag. The fact that you can get an MCTS Certification for Maintaining system desktops operating on Windows Vista which is the latest operating system launched by Microsoft is enough proof that Microsoft does not stop with that they have. The objective is to get Microsoft Certified Professionals on top of the latest technologies and products introduced by Microsoft which can be very beneficial to you as a person and your employer.

Why? Because managing technology solutions is not that easy at all.